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

Avalanche!
A whole load of snow has just fallen off my roof.

Isn't that normal when a large quantity of snow lands on a roof?

Here's our experience from December 2010:-

.... we had about six inches in two hours and the loch was invisible
all day. There was a lull at about two o'clock and I cleared the path
from the front door to the garage whereupon it dumped another load. At
about four a snow plough deposited a eighteen inch drift across our
frontage and at seven o'clock Sunday evening we were out clearing the
path again and hacking a car width clearance from the garage to the
road. In the night, a large quantity of snow slid from the roof and
obliterated the path so we were out Monday morning clearing the path for
the third time.

and:-

....I had to clear our forecourt again yesterday as Friday's sleet
covered it with about 1cm of frozen slush. This morning, I had to clear
a way through 'roof dump' to the cellar, again, but I now have fuel for
five days inside the house.

You're having it easy.

--
Alan White
Mozilla Firefox and Forte Agent.
By Loch Long, twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow, Scotland.
Webcam and weather:- http://windycroft.co.uk/weather