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Think about a bad day with all the snow out East.

How about coming to work and seeing this.

My wife's boss sales corporate jets, he just got an email from a friend out East. Hope someone has good insurance.

#4 photo, snow weight snapped that steel.
 
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Checking building codes for typical snow loading in that area, it appears to be 25 lbs/sq ft. Drifted, compacted snow can weigh 20-25 lb/sq ft per foot of depth. Wet snow will be much heavier.

They've had how much this week....2-3 feet and more to still falling? :eek:

When I lived in New England many years ago, this was the kind of winter folks had shovels, whellbarrows and even snowblowers up on the roof to get ready for the next storm.
 
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I just read somewhere where a roof to one of the Smithsonian warehouses also collapsed. The article said that no artifacts are believed to have been damaged but no one is allowed inside the structure. So, how do they know there was no damage?

A few years ago the roof collapsed on the Building where the American Distributors Inc. branch I worked with in Columbia, MD collapsed from snow.
 
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Damage looks like about 1.2 mil per plane.

The insurance co will freak out.
 
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It's the number of tail components, and the labor.

Vertical stabilizer, rudder, horizontal stabilizer, elevator, aux power unit, plus structural empennage damage, maybe damage to the mains, skin....I could go on and on.

Then there is flight testing after the repairs. A couple of thousand dollars an hour just for fuel. Then if another problem is found, more repairs. And a ton of paperwork.

The aircraft's value is also affected because they now have a "damage history." This means they are not as desirable as when they were free of such a history, no matter how perfect the repairs.
 
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