But I couldn't tell you why they were up on the roof of a church in a hurricane.
Mrs Appleton warned that anyone venturing up on the roof would be risking their life because it had been left so thin they could fall through it.
But being a "small D" democrat, I'm happy to report that the veil of privacy surrounding penthouse living is finally being lifted in a new book titled "Up On the Roof" (Princeton Architectural Press).
Local Democratic Unionist councillor Roger Hutchinson said he believed the attack may have been connected to an Irish tricolor flag, which was put up on the roof of an empty house two doors away last week.
During Tropical Storm Hanna, the prison flooded and the Pakistanis had to move the prisoners up on to the roof at three in the morning.
The next day he joked with Yeltsin that the Russians had hired a Finn to jump up and down on the roof.
It is so deep I can simply walk up the snow bank on to the roof.
Put up a simple windmill on the roof or solar panel, sure, but you might come up with a useful combination by looking at what kit-building cyclists are doing.
Less than two hours after the American incursion began, the Iraqi information minister, Muhammad Said al-Sahhaf, was at the television networks' "stand-up" positions on the second-story roof of the Palestine Hotel's conference center, to insist that the reporters had not seen what they thought.
Dress up for the Sky Lounge bar, which perches on the roof of the medieval Consorti Tower, overlooking the Ponte Vecchio to the Tuscan hills.
Militiamen set up a machine-gun on the roof, and the professor remembers watching their legs shake with fear as they fired deafening bursts at the hill behind the university.
Ms. Abernathy noted that aside from the unexpected height of the storm surge, Christie's was well prepared for Sandy, with generators on the roof that kept the security systems and climate controls up and running through the storm.
They spend much of their time watching television, trying to soak up all this diversity through the satellite dishes on the roof of their home in north Cincinnati.
After a day in the cultural mash-up that is Doha, eating camel (similar to goat in taste) on the roof of a Moroccan restaurant in Qatar will not seem strange at all.
During the storm, on 22 January, blocks of up to half a tonne smashed through the church's roof and lodged in the bell tower.
Law firm Olswang has signed up to the project and has a bee hive on its roof and another on a terrace in Holborn.
BBC: London offices offered bee hives to 'boost work morale'
We go downstairs and we have a little sun room on the back of the house, just a little room and we'd look up and the roof is partially caved in.
In the late 1980s, miniaturisation made it possible for individuals to pick up those signals directly with dishes small enough to be mounted on the roof of a home.
Up to 120 patients in seven wards were evacuated on 23 November 2012 after a fire started on the roof.
Local authorities deemed 46, 550 households to lack a roof of their own in the year to September 2011, up 14% on the previous year.
The new venue, which will host the Super Bowl in February, has a translucent fabric roof that can open up wide on cooler days.
Outside, a quick clamber up a wall ladder to the roof reveals a sculpture made of duvet covers and pillow cases, twisted on a stool.
Just hours after the tour wrapped up, on Wednesday night, a 23-year-old male employee jumped to his death from the roof of his residence hall.
应用推荐