Sentences with phrase «roof of a nearby building»

They also cared for their comrades on death row: in one instance a prisoner «so much... love [d] the man who was about to die» that he «scaled the fence that enclosed the death - row exercise yard and reached the roof of a nearby building before he was stopped on his way to the death house,» where he «had intended to disable the [electric] chair's generator.»

Looking out the window of her New York University office recently, Glennys Farrar saw something familiar to any New Yorker: wooden tanks of water on the roofs of nearby buildings.

Undeterred, Devoe and Goldberg went to the roof of a nearby building, sat down near the edge of a parapet and stared out into the darkness.

Not exact matches

Unfortunately, it also has an active seismic zone beneath the PF - 4 building, producing persistent worries among the staff and members of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, a congressionally - chartered oversight group, that if it experienced a rare, large earthquake, the roof could collapse and toss chunks of plutonium so closely together a chain reaction would ensue, spewing radioactive, cancer - causing plutonium particles throughout nearby residential communities.

Others fear that a wind farm that they've heard is to be built nearby will be noisy because that's what many of those opposed to wind power are «shouting from the roof tops».

To provide accurate estimates, Project Sunroof uses a unique set of data that assesses how much sunlight your roof gets, the orientation, shade from trees and nearby buildings, and local weather patterns — essentially creating a solar score for every rooftop that it maps.

A few of the buildings nearby are bristling with cellular repeaters on their roofs.