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fiver

Well-Known Member
usually.
last spring we got 2' of wet snow followed immediately by a 20+ degree warm up and 3"s of rain dumped in about 3 hours.
almost could deal with that but it all fell on the snow that was already on the ground.
it turned into a huge mess and several citizens had instant indoor swimming pools and wading ponds in their basements.
those that didn't have that problem had the underground aquifer over fill and push water up through their basement floors.
even the ones with no basements and just crawl spaces had water issues killing their heaters and such.
 

Brad

Benevolent Overlord and site owner
Staff member
Rain also doesn’t sit on my roof for weeks causing ice damns. I have never wondered where I was going to pile up the next rainfall.
 

Pistolero

Well-Known Member
Rain is self piling....but don't live too near a river or creek. Remember Houston and Hurricane Harvey,
just pouring for days and days.

Glad my roof in Colorado was designed for 75 lb/sq ft live load (WAY "overbuilt"). Lots of very dense
snow on it this year. I was amazed at how little extra cost there was to "massively over design" the
roof trusses. IIRC, 50 lb/sq ft truss set for the whole roof was about $1150 and the 75 lb/sq ft design
was about $1350. Easy choice!

A neighbor a few miles away out there had a garage roof collapse from snow. We saw it when
we drove in a few years back. The aluminum garage door had exploded outward about 4-5 ft
at the center....first thought it was an explosion. Then saw the roof down. OOPS. Rebuilt and looks
perfect today.

Bill
 
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fiver

Well-Known Member
snow don't pile up on my roof either.
I do have a tendency to exit the building and make 2-3 quick steps away from it though...LOL
of course the metal roof and a pitch about like this [A] seems to help.
 

Rally

NC Minnesota
Rain definitely goes to low areas, and then some genius in a Corolla has to drive through it. When I was stationed at Ft Hood , Texas, as an MP, we were dispatched to low water crossings when big rains hit. The ground doesn't absorb much water there and it causes some serious flash flooding at the low water crossings. Never failed, someone always thought their rig could defy physics and they would try to cross an engorged creek.
 

Dpmsman

Active Member
We broke the snow record here for February. My wife teaches and they have only had 5 full days of school for the month.
 

Pistolero

Well-Known Member
Thank goodness our snow has about 99% melted now. Mud everywhere now.

Creeks bank full and not anywhere near spring yet.

Bill