Editorial: The roof of Northtown Council' s equipment-storage building collapsed under the weight of last week' s heavy snowfall  The building was constructed recently and met local building-safety codes in every particular, except that the nails used for attaching roof supports to the building' s columns were of a smaller size than the codes specify for this purpose
Clearly, this collapse exemplifies how even a single, apparently insignificant, departure from safety standards can have severe consequences
The amount of snow that accumulated on the roof of the equipment-storage building was greater than the predicted maximum that was used in drawing up the safety codes.