MDI is where Acadia National Park is. It’s about an hour east of Bangor when you’re heading southeast from Baxter.

Yeah, and it always will. Price, quality and build speed are corners of a triangle that affect the end deliverable for pretty much everything. And of course, price is always as cheap as possible. So if you design and build to minimums, you’ll get recurring issues like this

Question is Are dealing with these cheaper than building the extra slack into the original system? If yes, then why spend extra money when it’s going to cost more in the end do “build right”?

yes, but heavy snow isn't necessarily the same as snow + rain. and its not contractors, but the architects that specify the live and dead load expectations for structures. so makes me wonder how much the weight is there, and what kind of drainage is in place.

however, for leaking, that suggests the rubber-tar compound on the roof has a few gaps.

They do. If roofs are leaking that means drainage issues. Given the freezing/thaw, not surprising that flat roof drainage is being backed up. also, flat roofs have a rubber-tar sealing compound in place of shingles, so makes me wonder about the age and what gaps occurred in the sealing.

edit to add https://www.pressherald.com/2023/01/26/third-storm-in-a-week-brings-more-outages-flooding-messy-mix/

>Deputy Chief Brennan said both Scarborough stores’ drainage systems were working, but were apparently overwhelmed by the weight of accumulated snow, saturated by the rain that fell overnight.

snow or rain is fine, when you get one then the other, it weighs a shit ton and goes nowhere fast.