Need some Global WARMING.................................
How’s that global warming doing?
Snow load is very unforgiving. Even more so is water-on-snow. The water weight can’t run off — most of it is absorbed by the snow.
Hopefully not the dreaded Pineapple Express which in 1996-1997 devastated the Sierras melting tons of snow with ravaging rivers bringdown structures all the way down to the San Francisco Bay.
This happened when I used to walk at Menlo Park, CA along by the bay at my noontime lunch break. I was astonished to see boards and debris floating around that obviously came from destroyed structures. All the way from the Sierras. Wow.
They are predicting a monster Pacific storm with a lot of rain at the lower elevations. Rain is falling up and down the N. Coast and into areas up to 30~40 miles inland. Most of our reservoirs have been overflowing their spillways for a month+!
In the higher elevation levels, they are warning about a huge dumping of snow and to have 2 weeks of food on hand.
Newsome doesn’t care, he’s on vacation
Shovel off the stinking roof!!!!!!!
We had to do it a few times every winter in NYS because of lake effect. That’s a lot or weight and they are asking for trouble by not addressing it.
What the heck is all that white stuff?
At first I thought it was snow, but then I remembered that “Climate scientists” decreed there would be no more snow after the year 2000.
“In 2000, climate scientist David Viner with the University of East Anglia told reporters, “Children just aren’t going to know what snow is.” Viner argued global warming would make snowfall “a very rare and exciting event”.”
Friends in MN have overwide hoes with very long handles. The ofter pull the snow off their roofs with those thangs. Beats having it piled up in your LR, and no longer a roof over your head.
This is why A-frames with metal roofs are a good idea in the mountains.
My family has a cabin in the Lakes Basin area (about 40 miles out of Truckee on Hwy 49). It was not built with a steeply pitched roof, and I have to wonder if it survived the winter. It was built in the late 40s to early 50s, so it’s pretty old, too.
Rule number 1 - steep roofs
Rule number 2 - metal roofs
Rule number 3 - back to rule number 1 and 2 if there are problems.
A Frame with a steep metal roof.
My in laws are shoveling their roof once a day up there.
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