One notable exception was a late season tornado that occurred November 9, 2005 damaging hundreds of houses and lifted off Lawfield Middle School's gymnasium roof on the Hamilton Mountain, injuring two students and leaving the school structurally unsound.
On February 13, 2010 following a snowstorm which dumped two feet of snow on the area, the gymnasium roof on the currently occupied Blacksburg High School suffered a catastrophic structural failure and collapsed, causing structural damage to other areas of the school.
One person was killed by high winds in Davy, West Virginia when a gymnasium roof collapsed.
In Sept 2007 mould was found in the building's gymnasium roof and now has to be replaced.
Then on March 10, 1964 a heavy snowstorm cause the collapse of the Seligman elementary's gymnasium roof.
After the snows of the First North American blizzard of 2010 and the Second North American blizzard of 2010, the school's gymnasium roof caved downward several feet under the pressure of the snow's weight, closing the school for a week beyond when other schools had reopened.
The roof at the Mena Middle School was significantly damaged, with part of the gymnasium roof ripped off and a portable classroom was destroyed.
The gymnasium roof, partially collapsed.
We're not going to guarantee that the school's gymnasium roof won't blow off.