The island we raced to, deep under drifts of snow

[sovay]

Actually, the nightmare was the three-plus feet of frozen solid snow my father, my brother, and I have just spent the last three hours shoveling off the roof. Several layers of roof, actually. It was already compacting to slush by the time the rain started and it only became icier and more sodden as the afternoon went on—needless to say, I have not yet gotten to captainbutler's. (I dropped off his cake and his present. Then I shoveled.) I'm drinking very hot tea.

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[sovay]

(My brother) Ron arrived home (to Natick, from Florida) to discover that the roof had leaked into the kitchen, through the kitchen floor, through two suspended ceilings of his basement bedroom, and into his cable box, short-circuiting it.

That sounds very bad. What are you doing about the leak?

[ericmvan.livejournal.com]

Ron informs me that his neighbor went up on the roof and cleared the gutters of ice and debris (the leak was strictly at the ceiling / wall junction), and we agreed that in future extreme winters the gutters have to be kept clear. It does not appear that the roof was inherently leaky, rather that an intolerable amount of water built up. (Just as the roofs that are collapsing from the weight of snow are not inherently prone to collapse.)