Snow Load Collapses Roof, Destroys Tennessee Church

Heavy snow Sunday forced Vision Missionary Baptist Church to cancel services, which was very lucky because shortly before sundown the roof collapsed on the unoccupied sanctuary under the weight of about a foot of snow. Claudette McDavid, whose husband, Harland, is the church’s associate pastor, told the Times News that employees from the nearby Dollar General store on Carters Valley Road heard the roof collapse Sunday evening shortly before dark and contacted them. "Evidently, it was just an act of nature," Mrs. McDavid told the Times News on Monday. "Just too much snow. The roof came down and buckled out the walls. It came down on everything. There’s one little part of it still standing where the steeple was."