And the Walls Come Tumbling down…

Well is been a *long* winter here in the Northeast. It seams as though as soon as it stops snowing, it start again… Its been so cold and I have been so busy its been awhile since I a have been out to the shed. I received all sort of great gift for Christmas and I have been dying to try them out.

I was getting motivated to get back out there when a bit of tragedy struck. I was on the road a few weeks ago and was able to make it back home despite an ongoing three day storm. As I rolled into the yard Gail gave me a look that I knew wasn’t good. She said that she was out shoveling and heard a terrible noise coming from the shed and that it was *leaning* a bit. I knew that with all the snow load that wasn’t good…

What should have been a square was looking pretty trapezoidal…

I hiked down to get a better look and when I got around the corner my worst fears were confirmed… Total structural failure and collapse. Somewhere under there was my MG…

I climbed inside and here is what I saw..

The good news is that all the snow and ice was sitting squarely on the car and the main support that failed was right across where the doors should have been and the other support was just suspended in mid air where the hood should have been.

After a fair bit of digging…