[at-l] RE: Noreaster

[lwbooher@halifax.com (Leslie Booher)]

What are ice dams?  Here in Southern VA, where the church people tell us
that we never have bad winters (except, of course, for last winter, when
they had an 18" snowfall), many people have tin roofs and they all have
"snow birds" around the edges of them.  They're all over my house.  That's
supposed to keep the non-existent ice from sloughing off onto the bushes
(and/or people) below.  So far, we've had only a dusting of snow this
winter.  But nobody's mentioned ice dams.  We didn't have them in IN,
either.  Leslie (anklebear)

-----Original Message-----
From: cosmo catalano, jr. <Cosmo.A.Catalano@williams.edu>
To: at-l@mailman.backcountry.net <at-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
Date: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 5:26 PM
Subject: [at-l] RE: Noreaster


>Snow?  Yes, we got snow.  I can't remember when I was in snow above
>my knees in town.  Maybe when I was 6 or so....
>
>Went out to rake the roof after Junkyard Wars--got prevent those ice
>dams, you know--and was in over the tops of my gaiters. Would have
>used my sneaux shoes,but it was so light and fluffy I don't think it
>would have mattered.  On the East facing roof, it was about 3ft deep,
>and of course I got face fulls from the roof rake.  Gave the goretex
>a real good workout shovelling last night (and this morning) too.  It
>doesn't.
>
>Storm finished off with 2-3" of pretty wet stuff which packed down
>the fluffy we got earlier in the day.
>
>Cosmo
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