Thanks all, that is kind of what I was thinking as well, and I appreciate the lesson in the legacy codes, it's a little easier to swallow knowing the how the load combinations were developed.
I agree with your comment WillisV on the unintended consequences of this load combination, seems that...
I am checking the design of a temporary roof structure and am having trouble getting the design to perform against uplift. I have problems in both the capacity of my connections as well as simply not having enough dead load to resist the applied uplift forces.
I believe I will be able to make...
