(Bloomberg) -- The latest menace dealt by New England’s historic snowbound winter -- the creak, crack and boom of collapsing roofs -- may get worse as the region heads into a weekend forecast of rain.
Rooftops, especially flat ones, have buckled under the weight of snow from Rhode Island northward to Maine. In Massachusetts, 106 roofs have caved in the last two weeks. Two partial roof collapses in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, displaced as many as 700 residents in an apartment complex.
There have been no reports of death or serious injury in the structural failures. That could change with Boston’s next round of foul weather, which will start Saturday. Unlike every system since Jan. 27, it will switch to all rain through the overnight hours, said Alan Dunham, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Taunton, Massachusetts.
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