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 only other buildings whose roofs collapsed from the weight of the snowfall were older buildings constructed according to less exacting standards than those in the safety codes.