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Post by Woody Williams on Feb 8, 2013 20:21:12 GMT -5
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Post by Woody Williams on Feb 8, 2013 20:22:26 GMT -5
Not to worry the union Snow Plow Operators of America are on the job....  |
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Post by Decatur on Feb 9, 2013 6:32:40 GMT -5
;d
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Post by danf on Feb 10, 2013 14:07:04 GMT -5
Meh. I survived. I've been meaning to take some pics, but other than a lack of sleep it really wasn't that bad...
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Post by esshup on Feb 10, 2013 14:56:34 GMT -5
There was a pic on the local news last night of a house that collapsed because of the snow load on the roof, and another vid clip of a guy shoveling off his roof. It looked like the snow on the roof was mid thigh deep..... They said after the house in the neighborhood collapsed, there was a frantic rush of people up on the roofs shoveling. Ya think?  |
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Post by danf on Feb 10, 2013 16:12:14 GMT -5
IMHO, the roof would have needed to be in pretty poor shape for it to collapse. Even 3 feet of the snow that we just got is pretty light, plus it was blowing around a lot so I have a hard time believing there was anywhere close to 2-3' of snow on any pitched roof. This is the 3rd winter I've been in this house and I've only shoveled my roof once- there was close to 2' of snow then and it was pretty dense.
I'll rake the roof from the ground in the next day or so to prevent ice dams but other than that, I'm not going to worry about it until we get more snow...
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Post by Hoosier Hunter on Feb 10, 2013 20:40:02 GMT -5
Low pitch commercial building roofs are going to be a huge concern with the rain they have forcasted. Going to be a lot of weight.
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Post by kevin1 on Feb 11, 2013 10:09:58 GMT -5
IMHO, the roof would have needed to be in pretty poor shape for it to collapse. Even 3 feet of the snow that we just got is pretty light, plus it was blowing around a lot so I have a hard time believing there was anywhere close to 2-3' of snow on any pitched roof. This is the 3rd winter I've been in this house and I've only shoveled my roof once- there was close to 2' of snow then and it was pretty dense. I notice that nearly all of the homes in my area that are over 100 years old have very steeply pitched roofs, while the ones built since the latter 50s mostly have much shallower pitches. They must have gotten a lot more snow back then. My Mom has told me that when she was a girl in the 40s it was routine for the Ohio River to freeze over sufficient for a Model A Ford to drive from New Albany to Louisville, this was before they built the levee system. |
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