The woman struck and killed by a flying solar panel in Brooklyn on Sunday morning had left home to buy groceries, according to her longtime husband, who said he’s struggling to imagine life without her as city officials continue to investigate the incident.

“I cry all day,” Mark Braun, 81, told Gothamist by phone Tuesday.

Lyudmila Braun, 76, was shopping on Ocean Parkway and West Brighton Avenue in Coney Island when police said she was hit in her head by a 41-inch by 87-inch solar panel that disconnected from a steel carport structure above a nearby outdoor parking lot. High winds from the incoming nor’easter blew the panel about 20 feet into the path where Braun was walking, according to the city Department of Buildings.

Mark Braun said he had gone to get a routine blood test Sunday

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