After a winter storm dropped nearly 17 inches of snow in the Minneapolis / St Paul area the Saturday prior to the Vikings December 12 home game versus the New York Giants and 30 mph gusts drove snow removers off the dome's roof overnight, several panels were damaged as the weight of the snow caused the roof to collapse.

A souvenir shop on the roof of St. Peter's Basilica

The galleria is covered by an arching glass and cast iron roof, a popular design for 19th-century arcades, such as the Burlington Arcade in London, which was the prototype for larger glazed shopping arcades, beginning with the Saint-Hubert Gallery in Brussels and the Passazh in St Petersburg.

( Called in to advise on a leaking roof at St Chad's Church Shrewsbury in 1788, he correctly warned the church was in imminent danger of collapse ; his reputation was made locally when it collapsed 3 days later, but he was not the architect for its replacement ).

It was St. Pachomios who developed the idea of having monks live together and worship together under the same roof ( Coenobitic Monasticism ).

Notable buildings in the city include St Anne's Basilica, built in 1949 by Roger Erell, and known for its green tiled roof ; Erell also designed a house in the city for Charles de Gaulle.

The Church of St Cuthbert ( which tourists often mistake for the cathedral ) has a fine Somerset stone tower and a superb carved roof.

* the Assumption Church on St Elijah's Hill ( 1672 ), with five green-tiled domes arranged unorthodoxly on the lofty cross-shaped barrel roof ;

In 1904, with the help of her uncle, she cobbled together a home-made ramp fashioned after a roller coaster she had seen on a trip to St. Louis and secured the ramp to the roof of the family toolshed.

* St. Michael's parish church, Lyneham, Wiltshire: nave roof and chancel, 1862 – 65

St Botolph's Church is the widest parish church in England, the tallest to roof, and also one of the largest by floor area, although contrary to common belief, that title is held by the Holy Trinity Church in Hull.

The tower of St Botolph's Church is high, making it the tallest parish church in England to its roof.

* St Peter and St Paul, Buckingham Church Buckingham, ( 1862 – 1878 ), additions to the original 1780 church including chancel, buttresses, porch, roof and nave alterations.

The Prindle house is a spacious gambrel roof dwelling on Gay St. near the charming lakelet which furnishes a natural reservoir for the village water supply.

On November 11, 1940, a tornado touched down in the area, causing extensive damage to the roof of the St. James Church.

Hurricane Katrina damaged over 40 Mississippi libraries, with severe roof and water damage to the Bay St. Louis Public Library.

Two further Gothic churches in Lancashire, not for the Commissioners followed in 1824: St Saviour's Church, Ringley, partially rebuilt in 1851-54 and Barry's neglected Welsh Baptist Chapel, on Upper Brook Street ( 1837 – 39 ) in Manchester ( and owned by the City Council ), is currently open to the elements and at serious risk after its roof was removed in late 2005.

Cottage rooftops seen from the roof of the Tate St Ives

Furthermore, there are some more sightworthy buildings opposite the church: St. Nicolai's Chapel is a former parish church which was built in a romanesque style in the 12th century and transformed into a residential building after 1803, and the Hospital of the Five Wounds which is a large half-timbered house dating from 1770 with a half-hip roof.

Daley, the parish priest of St. Peter's took to the roof of the church to defend it.

Despite many pressures, including evacuation and the destruction of the School roof during the Blitz, the school also refused to move out of central London along with other prominent schools such as Charterhouse and St. Paul's, and remains in its original location close by the centres of church and state.

It was part of the abbey complex and originally was one of three large churches in the town ( the others being St. James, now St. Edmundsbury Cathedral, and St. Margaret's, now gone ). It is renowned for its magnificent hammer-beam Angel roof, and is the final resting place of Mary Tudor, Queen of France, Duchess of Suffolk and favourite sister of Henry VIII ( Mary Rose ).

The roof of the command post began to buckle.

clutched her throat and sucked up the moisture in her mouth so that her tongue was dry and hard and stuck to the roof of her mouth and her teeth were clenched together in the rigid fixture of her jaws.

High, so it would only bounce harmlessly but loudly off the car's steel roof.

they were topped by steeples complete in every detail: high-pitched roof, pinnacle, and narrow gable.

She would often go up on the roof to see the attendant take down the flag in the evening.

I have seen diapers strung across the ruined roof.

After a nuclear blast, one bureaucrat suggested in those halcyon days, about all you had to do was haul out the broom and sweep off your sidewalks and roof.

The smoke from that chimney rose as sluggishly as smoke from any other, and hung as sadly in the drizzle, creeping back down along the sopping canvas of the roof.

Maybe yes, maybe no, but you can observe everything from the roof of a barrack we are building ''.

Charity as she knew it was complex and reciprocal, and almost every roof she saw signified charity.

Mrs. Hewlitt led the birthcontrol league, Mrs. Ryerson was arthritis, and way in the distance could be seen the slate roof of Ethel Littleton's house, a roof that signified gout.

At the entrance side of the shelter, each roof beam is rested on the inside 4 inches of the block wall.

The wooden bracing between the roof beams is placed flush with the inside of the wall.

The first one or two roof boards ( marked `` E '' in fig. 6 ) are slipped into place across the roof beams, from outside the shelter.

These boards are nailed to the roof beams by reaching up through the open space between the beams, from inside the shelter.

The roof blocks are in two layers and are not mortared together.

Work on the roof continues in this way.

The last roof boards are covered with blocks from outside the shelter.

When the roof blocks are all in place, the final rows of wall blocks are mortared into position.

If they are used, the walls and roof should be 10 inches thick to give the same protection as the 8-inch solid concrete blocks.

The roof shown here ( fig. 9 ) is a 6-inch slab of reinforced concrete, covered with at least 20 inches of pit-run gravel.

An alternate roof, perhaps more within do-it-yourself reach, could be constructed of heavy wooden roof beams, overlaid with boards and waterproofing.