 While many Minnesotans are excited about the heavy snowfall the area has seen in recent weeks, it has caused some problems for the owners of one local greenhouse. On New Year's Eve, an employee at Erickson's greenhouse in Brainerd got to work and discovered that the roof of one of the greenhouses had collapsed. The greenhouse is designed to prevent collapses from snowfall, but the amount of snow that accumulated in a short amount of time was just too much for the system to deal with. It was just winter happening, a little bit too much too fast. Usually we get in and keep the snow off and that type of thing, but it just came so fast that we were so busy removing it all everywhere that pretty soon it just caught up and then we got that extra five, six inches and that was all she wrote. The owners estimate that there is at least $10,000 worth of structural damage to the greenhouse. Luckily, the only plants that were located inside the collapsed portion were left over Christmas trees. Parts of the greenhouse were brand new, including the collapsed plastic roofing, and unfortunately they did not expect insurance to cover the damages. It just got too much too fast and it wasn't coming through the holes that we put up for it and it cracked a couple beams and this was all, got all bent and the wall over here that we remodeled cracked some beams too, so you know most of it was like freshly done so it's just something that unfortunately happens when you get too much snow. First plan to have the greenhouse repaired and up and running in time for their spring plant around March 1st. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.