{"id":120524,"date":"2009-12-31T14:13:07","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T19:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=7611"},"modified":"2009-12-31T14:13:07","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T19:13:07","slug":"roof-collapse-at-the-iowa-genealogical-society-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/120524","title":{"rendered":"Roof Collapse at the Iowa Genealogical Society Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>UPDATES &#8211; See the links at the end of this blog&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Melting snow and rain on the roof of the Iowa Genealogical Society building, during the first major blizzard of the winter, has caused a roof collapse. A month ago, the December 2009 eNews had a section dealing with the need for roof repairs, and a campaign for   <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/raisetheroof.jpg\" alt=\"raise the roof\" title=\"raise the roof\" width=\"250\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7612\" \/>funds called &#8220;Raise the Roof.&#8221; It seems that the roof is now needed more than ever!<\/p>\n<p>The following teaser from the KCCI.com website gives us an idea of the magnitude of the problem. See the latter portion of the blog for updates&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>DES MOINES, Iowa<\/strong> &#8212; Officials with the Iowa Genealogical Society Library said Thursday that the roof of the building that houses their library partially collapsed.<\/p>\n<p>The collapse happened during the first major blizzard of winter, officials said. The library at 628 East Grand Avenue in Des Moines suffered extensive damage.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said that in the days before Christmas, melting snow and rain on the flat roof caused the collapse. The ceiling in a storage room, office area and parts of the library itself were damaged.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said volunteers worked to cover books and equipment, including protecting &#8220;endangering irreplaceable family history volumes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A roofing project had been planned prior to the collapse, but it was delayed by the early winter weather.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcci.com\/news\/22098729\/detail.html?taf=des\">Read the full article<\/a> at the KCCI.com website.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.radioiowa.com\/2009\/12\/31\/genealogical-society-library-seeking-help-with-roof-repair\/\">More at RadioIowa.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omaha.com\/article\/20100101\/NEWS01\/701019967\">Society Roof Woes Worsen<\/a> in the January 1, 2010 edition of Omaha.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATES &#8211; See the links at the end of this blog&#8230; Melting snow and rain on the roof of the Iowa Genealogical Society building, during the first major blizzard of the winter, has caused a roof collapse. A month ago, the December 2009 eNews had a section dealing with the need for roof repairs, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5171,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}