Wiscasset Public Library Director Pam Dunning said Oct. 23, the tour she led an insurance adjuster on left her feeling “pretty relieved” for the High Street building and the prospects for getting insurance money to cover costs from a fallen tree.

She said the Liberty Mutual adjuster was going to do the best he could for the library and expected to relay dollar figures to the nonprofit soon.

The adjuster’s visit provided a closer look at parts of the building a Norway maple struck, such as clapboards; and no serious structural damage was apparent, Dunning said in a phone interview with Wiscasset Newspaper.

Now that the adjuster has had his look, the library can start repairs, she said. Until then, the work was just to remove the tree, fill holes it stabbed into the ground, fix an inverter that heats and cools the building, and make the building “tight to the weather,” Dunning has said.

The strike in the Oct. 16-17 rain and windstorm was the third known one there in the past half century. Dunning, who started in the 1990s as a volunteer, recalled a tree hitting the library earlier in the 2000s. And Boothbay Register files have a reported instance in October 1977. The report states in part:  “One of the few large Acacia trees known to be growing in the area was uprooted in the storm over the weekend and went into the roof of the Wiscasset Public Library.

“Only minor damage resulted to the roof over the children’s wing entrance and the main roof where the tree came to rest,” the 42-year-old news item continues. “The incident was discovered ... when Children’s Librarian Marilyn Shelton opened the library and the tree was removed that afternoon. Acacia trees are native in warmer tropical climates and are considered unusual in this region.”