Be careful out there, folks:
(image from link)
CHARLESTOWN (CBS) – The snow is starting to melt and it is damaging cars in Charlestown.
Snow slid off a sloping roof of an abandoned building on First Street over the weekend and crashed on top of at least two cars.
A note was left at the scene:
Reduce emissions or I kill another car every day.
-Gaia
That is all.
4 comments:
According to the report on last nights news broadcast last year her car was also destroyed in the same manner when parked it just down the street.
.......taking bets for next year
had a chunk of ice fall on my car from a 3 story height last year, and I thought THAT had done some major damage.....makes me glad I wasn't parked there in the spring!
After looking more closely at the pictures - and a related video: I'm kind of surprised that the roof separated from the side rail portion the way it did. That's a critical junction for collision and rollover protection. Cars are designed to deform, to absorb impact - but I find seam separation to be of great concern...
The design parameters assume that rollovers are more " Crush" type events not " center of roof high velocity Impact" events. They could design for that, but it would add more weight to the roof rail and probably reduce headroom.
All design is a compromise.
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