Sunday, February 6, 2011

Too much snow on the roof?


From Fox 5:

The roof of a vacant building in Queens collapsed Friday evening. The FDNY responded to 132-07 111th Avenue in Ozone Park at about 4:50 p.m.

Firefighters cordoned off the area and searched the site, but did not find anyone.

It is not clear what caused the roof collapse, but heavy snow from multiple storms is suspected.


Here's the "before" scene:

5 comments:

Moby said...

"Too much snow on the roof?"

There may be snow on the roof but plenty of heat in the furnace. Oops. Did I say that out loud?

ex-gov. a. schwarzenegger said...

Ja, zat was anudder zinger. A gut von. Hahr-hahr.

Anonymous said...

Moby? A pubic servant?

Anonymous said...

Abandoned buildings build up snow on the roof because they have no heat. When you have heat in a building some of the snow will melt because heat rises and eventually reaches the top of the building and melts some snow. No heat= no melting.

Anonymous said...

85,000 Chickens got killed in Connecticut (Unheated, Flat roof)