We lived in the second-floor flat of a small two-and-a-half-family house on a tree-lined street of frame wooden houses with redbrick stoops, each stoop topped with a gable roof and fronted by a tiny yard boxed in with a low-cut hedge.

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On the highest point of the roof gable, a vaned wind turbine was located.

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Update the roof: repair loose shingles and if your abode sits in a hurricane-vulnerable locale, consider adding gable end braces.

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