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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[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

It's ugly here as well. Roof seems to be okay,* but we spent some time knocking off icecicles from the eaves this afternoon.**

I'm sorry you've not been able to get to your friend's party. I hope you and your father and brother are feeling as well as possible after all the shovelling, and that all with the weather goes at least tolerably from now for you.

*Knock wood. It's nigh impossible for us to get at it, even with a roof rake.
**Right now I really want a house with a sharply peaked roof and eaves conveniently close to the ground. The doors would have to be at front and back, with enough overhang to keep the drippage away from the thresholds.

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

Three hours is pretty good. It took three men a full day and some to clear my mother's looong roof. She is very relieved that it was done, though!

I do not remember ever worrying about the roof in winter before. There have always been thaw periods to ease the load, in the past, between blizzards.

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

:(

[ericmvan.livejournal.com]

(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. Much of the water that leaked into the kitchen ended up filling the glasses in the cupboards.

Shoveling the snow off of your roof was undoubtedly a good idea.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Remind me never to be impressed by English weather.

[sovay]

Right now I really want a house with a sharply peaked roof and eaves conveniently close to the ground. The doors would have to be at front and back, with enough overhang to keep the drippage away from the thresholds.

We were shoveling even the pitched roofs. It was so wetly frozen, it clung.

[sovay]

Three hours is pretty good. It took three men a full day and some to clear my mother's looong roof.

Really? Okay. Yeesh.

I do not remember ever worrying about the roof in winter before. There have always been thaw periods to ease the load, in the past, between blizzards.

My mother doesn't remember this problem even in the blizzard of '78.

[sovay]

:(

Basically.

[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?

[sovay]

Remind me never to be impressed by English weather.

I'm sure it's less impressive here than in Tierra del Fuego.

[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.)