Quote - Here in Spokane it's more than backaches.  A dozen buildings collapsed
yesterday from snowload, and more will come today.  Two people have been
killed directly by snow falling *from *roofs.

Total accumulation is 5 feet, all from the last two weeks ... which didn't give
time for plowing, shoveling and melting, even with the best equipment.

I've been using a roof rake to keep the worst load from my own little roof.
It's not much fun, but safer than walking around on the roof with a shovel.

We have that almost every year here in NH and the roof rakes have been working overtime here. Last year was the worst for roof collapses but there has been many already this winter. The huge ice storm didn't help either and some roofs have caved in around here. NH has been having some strange weather like the tornado this past summer. Kansas size twister are not something that happens in New England it did a lot of damage and killed a few people.

Most of the deaths so far this winter have been people doing stupid things like when the ice storm hit it knocked out power for thousands and some people ran generators indoors and died from the carbon monoxide or added kerosene to kerosene stoves before turning off the flame.

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