Concrete company's roof damaged in Thursday storm
A warehouse roof at DuBrook Inc. on Bantam Avenue in Butler was the victim of Thursday night's round of storms.
Eric Thiel, the store manager at the concrete, gravel and stone company, said an employee arrived for work early Friday morning and found part of the roof peeled away.
Bags of ready-to-mix concrete were stored in the warehouse at DuBrook, which is behind Pullman Plaza.
“Half of it is soaked,” Thiel said. “The other half is OK.”
He guessed the building, which he estimates is about 100 years old, will need a new roof.
Thiel did not have a damage estimate for the roof or the soaked sacks of mix on Friday.
“It's not going to affect our customers,” he said. “I'm going to restock as soon as I can and keep it on the dry side (of the warehouse).”
Thiel said the product that was damaged is not used in the large, rotating concrete trucks seen on local roads.
The bags of dry mix are normally purchased by customers for smaller jobs, he said.
The damaged roof remained lying atop the remainder of the building's roof on Friday afternoon.
“I never saw anything like this before,” Thiel said.
The business remained open since no customer areas were damaged.
The National Weather Service on Friday said wind speeds in the county reached 60 mph on Thursday evening and overnight.
