WYOMISSING, Pa. \u2014 Chris Grilli calls himself a holiday engineer, but after Sunday\u2019s storm, part of the House on Squire looked more like a Halloween wreck.<\/p>\n
\u201cI guess the tent kind of got a little bit of water on it, and then all of a sudden it broke down,\u201d Grilli said.<\/p>\n
\u201cLike 10 or 12 pieces got destroyed,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n
Some figures snapped in half. Others were crushed beneath the collapsed tent.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe actually have somebody trying to help us with the metal and everything,\u201d Grilli said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s why otherwise you would just see bent metal and everything. But now he\u2019s working on welding all that stuff back together,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Anyone who wants to help can bring their children to enjoy the display and leave a donation. The money helps cover expenses, including the cost of storing the growing collection.<\/p>\n
\u201cTwo questions are how many and how much? I\u2019m like, don\u2019t know, don\u2019t want to know,\u201d Grilli said.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know, it\u2019s just a love. I just love the way people love this and react to this,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s why Grilli already has a new tent and hopes to have the circus back by the end of the weekend.<\/p>\n
The rest of the yard display is still running from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. during the week and until 10 p.m. on Friday and Saturday.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople have been very receptive, very helpful,\u201d Grilli said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis year everybody always is thankful. But this year, more than ever, people keep coming up to me and thanking me,\u201d he remarked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WYOMISSING, Pa. \u2014 Chris Grilli calls himself a holiday engineer, but after Sunday\u2019s storm, part of the House…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,128,130,129,213],"class_list":["post-306890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}