redk5 wrote:Akili Li wrote:The snow sounds really pretty! Do you get enough snow that you have trouble with the weight of it piling up on the rooftops and tearing off gutters in the winter?
it can do that?
Yes, but if you live in a place that
usually gets a lot of snow then typically they build in gutter supports so it doesn't happen. I lived for a while in a place that didn't normally get such heavy snow -and then they had 3 blizzards in a row and pretty much everyone lost their gutters. And then, three years later, we had a weirdly warm winter, and lost some of them again for a different reason. It kept melting, and we'd get the snow melting off the roofs and coming off the gutters as water, and then it would freeze again. We ended up with MASSIVE icicles and the weight was too much, it tore off the gutter again even with the new support.
(Our neighbors told us, too late to help, that we should have been knocking off the icicles as they formed. But we didn't know.)
Hi Eva, hope your holiday hours aren't too stressful!