"Graham P Davis" wrote in message
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On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 10:20:03 -0000
"Eskimo Will" wrote:

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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.


Hi Graham, yes in Edwardian times the climate of Dartmoor was probably more
snowy than it is now!
This is only the second avalanche here in 10 years.
For info. the size of the volume that fell off my roof was circa 4m x 2m x
~10cm depth.

Will
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