Good question. My guess is wind and loose nails in both instances. Front eave nails loose and wind just took it off. Top piece half the nails were loose and wind broke the lower end loose whereupon over the years wind whipping, flopping the end up and down finally work hardened the joint and one day a gust broke it at the joint and folded the end over the top. One of these days a gust from the opposite direction may just flop it back down.
What amazes me is how time hardens wood. I tore down a century built house, the old T style 2 story, real simple house, couldn't believe it had a spiral staircase......Used the wood to build small farm buildings for animals when I first got here in '78 and money was flying six ways to Sunday....not enough to go around. Wood was so hard I had to drill a hole to drive a (round 16d) nail. Did get a bucket full of old square nails.....for what that's worth....not much, still sitting in a barn.
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