Sweep the roof as clean as possible.
Instead, Mr. Sato said, the water roared up to the building and swept over its roof, pinning him against a steel railing, with his head just above water.
Jeannette Rivera, a medical biller for a gynecologist's office at 630 59th Street, swept chunks of roof and insulation out into the gutter.
"There was a dog on a roof, swept out to sea, and they rescued him by boat and helicopter," Mr. MonSanto said after attending a daylong training session at the city's Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals office.
Not long ago, when it came to H.I.V./AIDS, a broad swath of Americans stood together on that other hell-swept roof; then, slowly but surely, many of those with the resources to catch a ride or a break did, mercifully, and the disease was slowly brought under control.
″[T]he winds have swept away the roofs of almost every person I have spoken to or otherwise made contact with," he wrote in a Facebook post.
A taxi swept past with its roof light on.
Hundreds of patrons sat in the warm night on three open-air verandas, each topped by a thatched, Dogon-style roof that swept upward into a witch's-hat peak.
Wait until you see the new Mercedes CLS, a four-door sedan with a roof so swept back that it looks like a coupe.
After being swept away atop his roof, Hiromitsu Shinkawa, 60, was spotted by a rescue ship, thanks to the red flag he made.
These high waves toppled a lighthouse roughly 35 mile east of Acapulco and also damaged or swept away 60 thatch-roofed restaurants around La Penitas and La Bocana.
