On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 10:20:03 -0000
"Eskimo Will" wrote:

1015
Avalanche!
A whole load of snow has just fallen off my roof. It's a slate roof
and strong, so OK. The cast iron gutters have coped as well, plastic
ones might have broken I think. It was right outside my back door so
lucky I wasn't going out. Huge roar inside the house and I now have a
big pile of snow to clear. There is still some more to come down on
the roof. Roof is quite high pitched with slate fastened to wooden
boards as I suspect the Edwardian builders were aware of the
possibility of heavy snowfalls and built the roof accordingly.

I haven't seen such avalanches for decades. Roofs in Bracknell are far
too shallow to allow it to happen. Presumably the architects didn't
expect snow here or realised a low roof-line made the estates look a
bit less crowded than they really are. The other trick was to do away
with front gardens.

When at school, I was taught that you could recognise the climate of an
area by the style of roofing - flat roofs in a dry climate, low-pitched
roofs where it's wet but not snowy, and steep-pitched in snowy
countries.

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