Sandy's final toll will include, for instance, the shattered panes of glass in a third-storey apartment window on a wind-whipped street in Washington DC.

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The need to carry around an outlet charger could be supplanted by time spent listening to music, or perhaps even the sound of the wind roaring past your car window.

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The cabin is pretty quiet although we did notice a little bit of wind noise coming from the driver-side frameless window in our test car.

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"All you need is a gale of wind driving a piece of wood into somebody's window, " she said.

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