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dgibby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-10-10 02:25 PM
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Partial collapse of storage building belonging to Smithsonian
A building holding artifacts belonging to the Air and Space Museum has partially collapsed due to heavy snow, according to MSNBC. No one injured, but it is unknown if any of the artifacts were damaged because the building is inaccessible due to snow accumulation.
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-10-10 02:27 PM
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1. The snow load has to be stressing many buildings in the area
Edited on Wed Feb-10-10 02:28 PM by liberal N proud
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dgibby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-10-10 02:37 PM
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6. I hope people are able to keep their roofs cleared off,
but I'm sure there are many who are not able to do so. Things are very dangerous there now. Just hope everyone stays safe.

I was there for the Presidents' Day storm in '79. We had 3 ft of snow on the ground with 5 ft drifts in Annandale and Fairfax. Took us hours to dig out, and that storm was nothing compared to this one.
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-10-10 02:28 PM
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AngryAmish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-10-10 02:29 PM
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3. photo of collapsed part
Edited on Wed Feb-10-10 02:30 PM by AngryAmish
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MineralMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-10-10 02:33 PM
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4. LOL!
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DJ13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-10-10 02:48 PM
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7. Warehouse 13 collapsed?!
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RexDart Donating Member (106 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-10-10 02:36 PM
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5. Looks like it could have been worse.
Nothing seems to be threatened. Which is good to hear, a lot of that stuff stored there there is on the other side of priceless. The same thing happened to the B&O Museum a few years ago. In that case some cars were ruined.

Roof collapses at Smithsonian warehouse in Md.
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