Snow Totals

[Timothy]

The industrial park where my shop is located used to have an indoor sports dome thingy until about a week ago when it collapsed under the weight of the snow.

No one was using it and it recently changed hands to a new owner who was going to try and get a business going in there again.  Looks like a total loss..

Lots of buildings failing around here and in Boston.  Doesn't take a rocket surgeon to realize that a Cape style home is really the only one they should build in this part of the world.

[tombogan03884]

It baffles me how people/companies, can be so stupid as to build a flat roofed building in New England and then ignore the snow piling up on it.
On the other hand Obama is in his 2nd term so intelligence of any sort is probably pretty rare.

[Timothy]

My BIL and I cleared mine, the wind did some of it as well.  All fluffy stuff but add an inch of rain to that and you're asking for trouble. 

Better to be safe.

[billt]

No snow here. High of 79 today. Tonight a low of 51.

[MikeBjerum]

It baffles me how people/companies, can be so stupid as to build a flat roofed building in New England and then ignore the snow piling up on it.
On the other hand Obama is in his 2nd term so intelligence of any sort is probably pretty rare.

They are actually shifting to flatter roof barns in our area.  They can engineer the trusses to handle the same load, and the flatter roofs do not collect as much snow as steeper pitched roofs do.  The trials have shown that the snow blows off rather than collecting.  In the case of heavy wet snow that does not blow, it collects on both styles the same.  We will see what time brings.

[Sponsor]

[tombogan03884]

You have constant wind out there, so it might work. It only collects on the flatter pitched roofs around here. The real old colonial farm houses have a pitch that will split a rain drop just so the snow WON'T stay. They are a royal b!tch to reshingle though because you need staging, and ladder brackets for everything .

[Pathfinder]

Here in Lexington KY we got over 10" in one day, followed by 2-3" the next day. And then the sub-zero temps - this town is just not cut out for this. Univ. of KY (SEC, 25-0 so far this year) has been shut down for 4 or 5 days this week, and they never close - something like only 3 other times in recent history. They will be playing b-ball tomorrow night though, they ain't stupid enough to cancel that!

Having moved here from ND, I have to chuckle at all of the semi-hysterical weather people in KY. I do admit I got kinda homesick Tuesday during the "blizzard" Tuesday, but I sure did miss my snowblower too. Had to clear that 12+ inches by hand. It may have been "fluffy" snow, but after the third time during the storm, well, a blower would have  been nice. And I traded my ranch pickup (F350 quad cab with the 7.3l Powerstroke diesel) so I didn't have that to combat the imbeciles who were told to stay home - and clearly should have - but went out anyway apparently to get milk, eggs and bread.

As for flat roofs, they have those in ND. Normally the snow blows sideways so it usually blows off the roofs. When it doesn't, the snow removal people use a crane to lift the snowblowers on the roof to clear it manually. NBD. Apparently too sophisticated for the NE though.

[santahog]

I heard a story this morning about a guy in Mass that went out to rake the roof and got buried in 10' of snow. 
I didn't know whether to laugh or cry for the guy..
His wife found him 4 hours later, according to the story.
Kennesaw finally got snow this year last night. 4", I think is what they said. In AL where I was got 7", and Guntersville, just north of there got 11".
Finally got to partake of some of that bread and milk.. 

[Big Frank]

We only had a fraction of an inch last night so I'm not shoveling. Most of our snowfalls have been really small with one big exception. There's a chance of snow tonight, Saturday night, Sunday and Sunday night, Monday night, Tuesday and Tuesday night, and next Thursday. It sounds bad but half of those days are a smallish chance like 30-40%. I'll be surprised if it totals more than 2" for the week.

[ellis4538]

Here in the secondary snow belt of ne Ohio we have probably had less than 2 feet of snow total.  That is below normal for us!  What has been killing us is the extreme cold.  Many of our "Snow Days" have actually been "COLD DAYS"!  Second year in a row that many of the local wineries have lost all or most of their vines which translates to their grape harvest/wine production.  It's going to take several years to bounce back if they are able to stay in business.

Richard