Snow Collapses Indestructible Pennsylvania Barn

MEADVILLE, Pa. - A two-year-old dairy barn billed as indestructible when it was built for a western Pennsylvania fairgrounds has collapsed after heavy snow piled on its rounded roof.

The $465,000 Heritage Hall Dairy Barn at the Crawford County Fairgrounds collapsed on Wednesday.

The fairgrounds are near Meadville, a northwestern Pennsylvania town that sits in a region that gets plummeted with lake effect snow every winter.

Crawford County Commissioner Morris Waid says the barn was designed to withstand the heaviest snows and had been billed as indestructible.

The barn was dedicated at a ceremony in August 2008. It could hold 320 cows and served as a show arena during the annual Crawford County Fair.
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Information from: The Meadville Tribune, http://www.meadvilletribune.com

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Permalink Reply by Jack/dt on January 8, 2010 at 11:59am
From the same the who brought you the Unsinkable Titanic.......
Take home point....never say never.
Permalink Reply by Doug on January 8, 2010 at 12:04pm
Why? Why must people insist on saying something is indestructible or fire proof!?! It always comes back to bight them in the rear.
Permalink Reply by Station10Capt106 on January 8, 2010 at 12:05pm
guess they had the rounded part the wrong way.
Permalink Reply by Doug on January 8, 2010 at 12:11pm
I just read another article about it, and the county commissioners are already wanting to put up another barn identical to this one. Criminy!

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