Northern weather

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Yes, let it snow----------up north.

We'll ship you some!

[chuck]

seems we have always have incompetent people that simply must drive in snow and hit power poles.....

Amen.

[MartyE]

A foot of snow expected here for Monday. Scary, to me.

where do we need to go???

Work...some of us till have to go to work.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

A foot of snow expected here for Monday. Scary, to me.

Why? Do you have someplace that you really must be; not enough food and TP for a few days? What makes this any different that following the stay at home and protect yourself against the virus conditions?

I've got a couple of gallons of gas the snow blower that I pointed out to my better 1/2 -- where do we need to go???....

There is absolutely nowhere I need to go, having tucked-in restaurant prepared meals, in the freezer, and other groceries , etc. on Thursday right after having gotten the vaccination.

My concern is the weight of all that snow upon the house roofs. It's been more than once in the past that I've had to have the roofs shoveled. And I'm not sure that fellow is still available for such a task again. Plus, shoveling the walkways and sidewalks myself is something that gives me much pause, at my age. The neighborhood is , nowadays, bereft of young people interested in earning money for shoveling snow. (We don't even see kids anymore at Halloween coming for treats .)

[Rufus T. Firefly]

My concern is the weight of all that snow upon the house roofs. It's been more than once in the past that I've had to have the roofs shoveled. And I'm not sure that fellow is still available for such a task again. Plus, shoveling the walkways and sidewalks myself is something that gives me much pause, at my age. The neighborhood is , nowadays, bereft of young people interested in earning money for shoveling snow. (We don't even see kids anymore at Halloween coming for treats .)

Odd that in your area that they might have housing that's not build for the snow; we never worried about that when we lived in PA. Are you sure you're not being scammed just a bit on that? Ever go up in your attic and check the rafter size and spacing? Check on conditions there?

So shoveling is probably not needed - wait 3-4 days. It's all going to melt.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Oh, I've been in the attic checking that out and never saw any trouble. It just worries me. There is one area in particular where two of the roofs intersect which used to fill with meltwater after a few days of melting, admitting some water into the house. So of course, I had that part re-shingled when the weather was warm again, and redesigned gutters (capped) installed there, and there has been no such problem since then.

But the snow sure does build-up in that intersection of roofs especially = really deep.

[chuck]

Roof rake? Just to keep ice-dams from forming, skim 12-18 inches off the roof edge while standing on the ground (assuming you have no overhead power lines). Unless you get two to three feet of wet heavy snow you shouldn't have to worry about the roof actually collapsing.

It's also getting pretty late in the season. If your roof gets unfiltered sunshine it is going to melt pretty fast. We had 18 degree air temps back on Tuesday but full sunshine (clear blue sky from dawn to dusk). Anything with a southern exposure was melting like crazy. As soon as that melt water hit shade, it re-froze, usually within minutes. Made for some interesting ice sculptures.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Roof rake? Just to keep ice-dams from forming, skim 12-18 inches off the roof edge while standing on the ground (assuming you have no overhead power lines). Unless you get two to three feet of wet heavy snow you shouldn't have to worry about the roof actually collapsing.

North side of the house here is the only bit that has had in the past issues, but that's all been put to rights.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

~1 & 1/2 inches here now.....

[robert.]

Just started flakes. weatherman keeps saying " the brunt will come Monday into Monday night"

[sleepmac]

Snow started falling here less then an hour ago.

Dan Weinhold
Lancaster, PA.

[robert.]

On a side note. For the last 3 weeks my yard has been full of robins.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

On a side note. For the last 3 weeks my yard has been full of robins.

Yummy!

~2" now.

[gregj410]

2 maybe 2-1/2” here in the promised land

[robert.]

Photo from 2:00 pm.

two and a half hours later. we are in a full blown blizzard.