Today I started working on a two hundred year old plantation house with a two story front porch. The second story porch roof was ripped off by a storm two weeks ago. The storm lifted the 20’x46′ section of roof over the house and it landed in the back yard. The porch beam stayed in place because it was attached to the posts with pegged mortice and tenon joints. The rafters just lifted away. What confuses me is the old 1×10 used for the soffit in this picture. The ceiling material was the same way but I ripped it out before I took this picture. Keep in mind that the joists are 4×4’s.
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Holy Cow!
Guess that's what hurricane clips are all about.
On the bright side, looks like it all came off pretty clean -- didn't do much damage other than the whole roof?
"Let's get crack-a-lackin" --- Adam Carolla
that is a pretty good trick -
the wind did it... <g>
It looks to me like the roof and joists were lifted up off the beam and then dropped back down. If you look at the shard of wood next to the joist where the notch is you'll see a sliver sticking up. The sliver was probably pulled up with the joist and not taken back down 'cus now it was clear of the returning joist. The soffit board and ceiling boards stayed above because of their length and flexability. cool - wind and storm do amazing things
Mother nature will outlive us all