Post by Ardbeg... innit on Jul 2, 2011 14:10:52 GMT -6
Well, I wish that were the case figuratively. In the literal sense, it was the wind that blew the roof off of the building we curl in late last night.
The township owns the building so it will be their insurance that determines what happens. My guess is that the entire front part of the building is doomed, the back part where we actually curl may be salvageable, but there is some serious concerns about a couple of joists where the roof "landed", specifically one joist seems to no longer be in one piece.
Overall our building was the worst hit in town, in fact it was almost a surgical strike. Besides our building and the building immediately adjacent, the only other damage was a van that was slammed into a church a 1/4 mile away, and a few trees.
I dont think this was a tornado, nothing is twisted in odd directions, it looks more like a straight line microburst, but it must have been some go awful velocity to do this to a building that has been there over 120 years.
Cupola Gone (roof from adjacent building on ground slammed into our wall, its rather concave now and will probably have to come down)
Our building's roof (note what looks like minor damage to the existing roof on the left, that is what I am concerned about for the curling part of the building)
Interior damage (that wall in back has a major crack in it, I am afraid that wall will have to come down)
Interior damage (the area where we curling starts where that opening is back left, if the front part of the building needs to come down, best case scenario is that we build a new exterior wall over that opening)
The township owns the building so it will be their insurance that determines what happens. My guess is that the entire front part of the building is doomed, the back part where we actually curl may be salvageable, but there is some serious concerns about a couple of joists where the roof "landed", specifically one joist seems to no longer be in one piece.
Overall our building was the worst hit in town, in fact it was almost a surgical strike. Besides our building and the building immediately adjacent, the only other damage was a van that was slammed into a church a 1/4 mile away, and a few trees.
I dont think this was a tornado, nothing is twisted in odd directions, it looks more like a straight line microburst, but it must have been some go awful velocity to do this to a building that has been there over 120 years.
Cupola Gone (roof from adjacent building on ground slammed into our wall, its rather concave now and will probably have to come down)
Our building's roof (note what looks like minor damage to the existing roof on the left, that is what I am concerned about for the curling part of the building)
Interior damage (that wall in back has a major crack in it, I am afraid that wall will have to come down)
Interior damage (the area where we curling starts where that opening is back left, if the front part of the building needs to come down, best case scenario is that we build a new exterior wall over that opening)
