On Monday, April 16, high winds caused some of the wooden roof trusses, being constructed on the new 100/200 halls, to buckle in an accordion fashion and collapse. This startled staff and students who were near the collapse.

It was the loud noise that came from the fall that made BHS social studies teacher Karissa Piper look at the direction of the windows first. “I saw the roof collapse in what looked like a wave. I think I saw it start to tumble first, and we all just jumped up and ran to the windows,” she said.

Senior Eva Muschkin gave  her account of the incident: “It had been really windy all class, and all of the sudden we heard a big crash and everyone rushed over to the window. A big section of wooden beams had fallen on top of each other, and we yelled out to the workers to make sure everyone was ok. After this happened we didn’t get anything done for the last 15 minutes of class,” she said.

“Some students actually tried to film it on their cellphones, though it had already fallen by then,” said junior Perris Young.

Twitter was also alive with reports of the incident.

“Pretty much everyone was looking at the ground to see if anyone was underneath,” said Piper.

Fortunately, no construction workers were killed or injured as a result of the collapse.

So will this collapse set back construction of our new school?

“Yes, but not too long,” said Assistant Principal Paul Chase. “The original parts were put up with a crane in a few days, so it will probably take a few more days to rebuild.”

Chase also stated that the only money needed to repair the damage comes through insurance—no new money will be needed.