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We got 18 inches of snow last Friday. No mail....no trash pick-up until today.......neighbors calling each other for extra toilet paper and milk because we can't get out of the driveway. It was the biggest snow drop in this desert in recorded history. So tonight we found one of our gutters had frozen solid and is causing a roof leak..........DANG.......dumb desert dwellers have no idea what can happen or what to do to protect our homes! We didn't have water for several hours..........BTS got the hair dryer out and we defrosted the incoming house pipe....we now leave a dripping sink on all night. Any suggestions on roof care so it doesn't spread?? The daily temp is only up to 30 even now. We did dig out the postal box for the neighborhood ...otherwise we would not have gotten mail today!

nvalleyvee;504876 wrote: We got 18 inches of snow last Friday. No mail....no trash pick-up until today.......neighbors calling each other for extra toilet paper and milk because we can't get out of the driveway. It was the biggest snow drop in this desert in recorded history. So tonight we found one of our gutters had frozen solid and is causing a roof leak..........DANG.......dumb desert dwellers have no idea what can happen or what to do to protect our homes! We didn't have water for several hours..........BTS got the hair dryer out and we defrosted the incoming house pipe....we now leave a dripping sink on all night. Any suggestions on roof care so it doesn't spread?? The daily temp is only up to 30 even now. We did dig out the postal box for the neighborhood ...otherwise we would not have gotten mail today!


The suggestions should be towards a FLAT top roof......not a pitched...







As there is about 12' of wet snow sitting above us.........

And I repeat wet....... Not a dry snow as we got the southern moisture hitting our frigid air and it kicked our booties....... not sure of the moisture content but it is as high as I have ever seen......

flopstock;505071 wrote: Don't eat the yellow stuff..


You go girl............



A little Zappa eh?:





Dreamed I was an eskimo

Frozen wind began to blow

Under my boots and around my toes

The frost that bit the ground below

It was a hundred degrees below zero...

And my mama cried

And my mama cried

Nanook, a-no-no

Nanook, a-no-no

Dont be a naughty eskimo

Save your money, dont go to the show

Well I turned around and I said oh, oh oh

Well I turned around and I said oh, oh oh

Well I turned around and I said ho, ho

And the northern lights commenced to glow

And she said, with a tear in her eye

Watch out where the huskies go, and dont you eat that yellow snow

Watch out where the huskies go, and dont you eat that yellow snow

I saw you guys got hammered

Get up on the roof and shovel off as much snow as you can. Roofs have been know to cave in due to heavy wet snow. You could even get a garden hose up there and cyphon to redirect the water onto the ground below.

Oh the rest of the song and AIn't Zappa Sumpin?:



(well, right about that time people

A fur-trapper (who was strictly from commercial)

Had the unmitigated audacity to jump up from behind my igloo (peekaboo) )

And he started into whippin on my favorite baby seal

With a lead-filled snowshoe)



I said, with a

Lead-

Filled

With a lead filled snowshoe

He said, peekaboo

I said, with a

Lead-

Filled

With a lead filled snowshoe

He said, peekaboo

He went right upside the head of my favorite baby seal

He went whap with a lead-filled snowshoe, and

He hit him on the nose and hit him on the fin, and he

That got me just about as evil as an eskimo boy can be. so I bent down

And I reached down, and I scooped down and I gathered up a generous

Mitten-ful of the deadly yellow snow



The deadly yellow snow, from right there where the huskies go!



Whereupon I proceeded to take that mittenful of the deadly yellow snow

Crystals and rub it all into his beady little eyes with a vigorous

Circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined

To take the place of the mudshark in your mythology

Here it goes,the circular motion, now rub it!



(here fido)



And then

In a fit of anger

I pounced



And I pounced again



Great googly moogly!



I jumped up and down on the chest of the him



I injured

The fur trapper



Well he was very upset, as you can understand

And rightly so, because the

Deadly yellow snow crystals had

Deprived him of his

Sight



And he stood up, and he looked around, and he said



I cant see

I cant see

Oh, woe is me

I cant see



Well.....you know

I cant see

Nothin



He took a dog-doo snow cone and stuffed it in my right eye

He took a dog-doo snow cone and stuffed it in my other eye

And the husky wee-wee

I mean the doggie wee-wee

Has blinded me

And I cant see

Temporarily



Well, the fur-trapper stood there, with his arms outstretched across the

Frozen white wasteland, trying to figure out what he was going to do about

His deflicted eyes. and it was at that precise moment that he remembered

And ancient eskimo legend, wherein it is written (on whatever it is that

They write it on up there) that if anything bad ever happens to your eyes

As the result of some sort of conflict with anyone named

Nanook,

The only way you can get it fixed up is to go



Trudging across the tundra

Mile after mile

Trudging across the tundra



Right down to the parish of st. alphonzo

Rain;505079 wrote: I saw you guys got hammered

Get up on the roof and shovel off as much snow as you can. Roofs have been know to cave in due to heavy wet snow. You could even get a garden hose up there and cyphon to redirect the water onto the ground below.


I'm sad.......the roof that is leaking is only 3 years old. I will get up there and shovel that part on the north side of the house.....:-1

nvalleyvee;504876 wrote: The daily temp is only up to 30 even now. We did dig out the postal box for the neighborhood ...otherwise we would not have gotten mail today!


The weather is crazy these days.

Here on the northeast shore of Lake Ontario, the thermometer is hitting 8 - 10C

on these sunny afternoons. (10C is 50F). There are a few green, leafy plants in the back yard. Even the grass is still a respectable shade of green. Not a hint of snow.

I went on a lovely moonlit bike ride last evening, sans gloves.

nvalleyvee;505086 wrote: I'm sad.......the roof that is leaking is only 3 years old.


That's unacceptable. You should have some recourse through a warranty.

Richard Bell;505110 wrote: That's unacceptable. You should have some recourse through a warranty.


No warranty....unless it is sun damage.....we live is an area where all the roofs are made of tar with pebble overlay. It freezes easily and has no give. We are calling our insurance though. This is called........the isurance company has to pay for it.

nvalleyvee;505118 wrote: No warranty....unless it is sun damage.....


That dang sun has burned a hole in your roof, letting in the snow/rain.

Let 'em prove it ain't so ! :-6

Richard Bell;505143 wrote: That dang sun has burned a hole in your roof, letting in the snow/rain.

Let 'em prove it ain't so ! :-6


That dang sun only melted the snow enough to freeze up every night causing major roof damage. There is mentionof freezing.......BWAAAHAHAHA