But it sure can dish up some compensating amusement while we wait for the roof to fall in.

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Biologists are still running modelling experiments to determine whether to save the Wedgwood or leaded crystal as the house smoulders and timbers fall from the roof.

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Partly because of his stammer, brought on by a fall through a roof as a lad, and partly because people from Hesket didn't talk too much as a rule, he didn't care to meet strangers.

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"I am worried about flooding my home with all those piles there, " said Mr. Steiner, 59, an environmental consultant who estimates he has shoveled 150 tons of snow off his roof and driveway since last fall.

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Somebody kind of messed up and let his or her air conditioner fall from the third-story window onto our roof, which led to a visit from the neighbors.

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That's why, when the panic reached a peak this fall, gold prices didn't go through the roof as everyone sought safety.

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Mrs Appleton warned that anyone venturing up on the roof would be risking their life because it had been left so thin they could fall through it.

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There were fears that the roof of the atrium was so high that the building would have its own weather and rain would fall on the guests.

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