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Terrifying Moment When Storm Turns Ferris Wheel Into Windmill

OUT OF CONTROL

Luckily the ride was closed when a violent windstorm swept through an Italian island.

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Violent storms may have marked the end of Italy’s brutal heatwave, but not without causing massive damage to a number of structures, including a ferris wheel in the Tuscan coastal town of Piombino that started spinning like a windmill early Thursday. No one was on the ride when the storm swept through, but several people captured the cars flying around the wheel as the wind whipped it out of control. The system is expected to linger over the Italian peninsula for another 24 hours.

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