14 The Dallas Post Dallas, PA Wednesday, March 9, 1994 WHAT A MESS! - slate roof collapsed from the weig Snow claims century old landmark ' By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff + When Willard Garey's century- old barn in Lehman Center col- lapsed January 28, next-door neighbor Mary Hosey was stunned. She had been inside it barely two hours before. “I heard a loud boom-boom- boom and thought that the snow had finally fallen off the barn roof,” she said. “Then I looked outside ‘and saw that the roof was gone. Thank goodness that didn't have ‘a horse in there.” Hosey, who has rented the barn from Garey for 23 years, had ‘housed her horses there until the last one died a year ago. She still stored a horse trailer, ‘tractor, camper, snowmobile and ‘snowmobile trailer there. ht of the snow. “It sure was a nice barn, but time takes its toll.” Willard Garey Barn owner Garey said. “One time the Department of Agriculture came out to test the soil and couldn't get their auger into the dirt,” he recalled. “I told them that they couldn't drill there because the pigs had eaten all the dirt and left them just stones.” He reminisced about another wisecrack which he had made to a woman who had sold a nearby house but later found radon gas in its basement. Insurance (continued from page 1) policies cover. They think that things like this will never happen man said. Mobile home owners face simi- lar problems, especially if their homes are older. While policies for newer mobile homes may cover seepage dam- age, mobile homes more than 10 years old aren't covered, Hartman said. PHOTO COURTESY oF MARY HOSEY The interior of a landmark Lehman Township barn is open to the sky after the Although she was able to pull the horse trailer out with her pickup truck, some of her other equipment is still buried. Hosey said that the barn was known as a peg barn, completely made from hand-hewn beams, held together by wooden pegs and topped by a slate roof with shingles laid in a decorative pattern. Although the slate roof had wrought iron devices designed to break up the snow and prevent it from accumulating, three feet of the heavy white stuff had piled up from two months’ storms. Another addition in front of the barn, known as the wagon house, is also beginning to buckle and is being held together with chains and a block and tackle. Garey said that he will proba- bly tear the barn down and sell of the structure,” said Chuck Garnett. “But wet curtains or furniture usually aren't. I advise my customers to clean their cur- tains or belongings before they dry so that they won't develop water stains.” Bartt Slocum of Slocum Insur- ance, said that his firm has re- ceived “hundreds” of calls about seepage damage since January. the outside of the walls, it can stain siding with residue from the shingles. “The damage isn't impressive to look at, but the repair costs really add up,” Slocum said. “This winter, approximately $1 billion in ice dam seepage claims have been filed on the entire East Coast. POSTPHOTO/GRACER.DOVE' CLEARING THE AIR - Lehman Township firefighters leave the scene of a gas leak at the Lehman- Jackson Elementary School after closing Market Street to traffic for an hour March 4. the wood. Rebuilding it would be to them,” he said. “The damage isn't “About 80 percent of our cus- er ay Impressive tv look ab, tims vend beset : : e said. “T t will as a Form 2 or HO-2, only covers but the re paw cos ts for repairs IoTost Wil ave topay damage from specific perils: fires, really add up. The cost of repairing ice dam lightning strikes, theft, wind- Bartt SI seepage can range from about storms, hail, smoke and riots, : art Slocum $200 to $30,000, depending on Hartman said. They cover dam- Dallas insurance agent extent of the damage, he said. age from ice dams only if the Alternately thawing and freez- outside roof has collapsed. : ing ice dams can push up roof Damage to a home's contents shingles, drip down inside walls A policy covering ice dam seep- are another story. and across joists and accumulate age adds at least $40 a year to a “Damaged carpets are covered between inside and outside win- gg. basic homeowner's policy, Hart- because they're considered part dows. If the seepage runs down L 3 “I told her th Avenerable 12by 12-inchbeam pigs Jer hip li iy too expensive - replacing the slate M B k a ? AN and several smaller ones were that's what made the radon gas,” roof would cost more than ore bac Steve ns © snapped from the weight of the he joked. $70,000, he said. Mountain news Je ive nye - The barn ad alvays had a aed that the wagon house Town & Country Cle aners the er i said. Po _ Haier both “It sure Was a nice barn, but The Dallas Post Country Club Shopping Ctr. ® 675-0468 The barn hadbeenbuiltaround “When I went back to get my tack time takes its toll,” he said. a Bh wis gnes Oyined by bes there was such an eerie Q U ALITY e ay, a former Luzerne like the b telli County commissioner. | re rs Twos of he leBiali = Dae TBI) An addition was built around snow was just too much for it.” CR in 1914 by Clyde Veitch. Garey Clearing the debris to get to her ( ED D RYC L - A N i N G bought the farm in 1964. tack boxes and equipment was a O\\ ‘It was a big farm,” he said. massive rescue mission. = =) : OC “The land where the Lake-Lehman Hoseyand three friends worked EHR A member of ihe Inismagnal Fabrieate Insinie, 4 Hi gh S ch 0 ol an d th e Lehm an for three Rours.to clear slate roof = 31 ad the association of professional drycleaners and launderers. ackson Elementary School stan iles, d f th i was once part of it, all the way up top oe as It, : Same Day Service to Mountain View Drive.” trailer, which had eight beams Shirts Laundered - Draperies and Household Items 5 In fhe old es, the an also Heung out of its top. 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