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Author Topic: Coming out to a movie in a blizzard Sean McKinnon Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1712 From: Peabody Massachusetts Registered: Sep 2000 posted 02-28-2010 08:21 PM                        You know I lived in Boston for 27 year until I moved to New York and I have seen my fair share of snow but I swear I have never seen a storm like this... I don't know what made it so bad, it just was! Newburgh is in Orange County, NY about a half an hour from Poughkeepsie (sp?) on the Hudson river... Newburgh is where I-87 (The NY Thru Way) and I-84 meet.  |  IP: Logged Elise Brandt Expert Film Handler Posts: 160 From: Kuusankoski, FIN/ Kouvola, Finland Registered: Dec 2009 posted 03-01-2010 09:10 AM                     Randy; I saw my neighbor using one of those rakes looked pretty desperate. He only got about 1,5 metres from the edge off, the rest stuck on. I waited with the phone in hand and watched because I thought he might lodge off a good chunk and get hit by it, the guy's old... Next year I think we'll definitely get one. It's only our fifth winter in this house and none before have been snowy enough to raise concern.  |  IP: Logged Sean McKinnon Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1712 From: Peabody Massachusetts Registered: Sep 2000 posted 03-02-2010 04:44 PM                        Heard on the news this morning 8,700 people in Orange county New York are still without power. Including me!  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-04-2010 12:23 AM                     My snow rake has a four-section pole. Each section is about 5 ft. long. That's about a 6 meter reach. The section of the roof that needs to have the snow removed slopes down low enough where I can access it with a stepladder. If I am careful I can remove the snow about half way up the slope. If your roof is properly constructed you shouldn't need to get all the snow off. You only need to get the parts where snow melts and freezes at the edges. If you have tremendous amounts of snow that endanger the structure of the house due to weight that's different but the main problem is the ice that builds up along the edges of the roof and the gutters. If you don't remove the snow before it turns to ice it can build up and damage the roof shingles. If that happens, water will leak in and ruin your walls and ceilings. Ask me how I know this...  |  IP: Logged Elise Brandt Expert Film Handler Posts: 160 From: Kuusankoski, FIN/ Kouvola, Finland Registered: Dec 2009 posted 03-04-2010 06:59 AM                     Ouch!! I don't need to tell you how bad that looks... Usually it's the ice threatening the gutters that is the problem but that can be brought down with a long broom handle. This year it's definitely the weight all over that is weighing down the whole structure of the roof so everything, or as much as humanly possible, needs to come off. Kids are happy though. I visited my mother, all of her roof snow came down in one big *thump* and what did she do with massive amounts of snow piling higher than her head? Dug corridors in it so the kids could have a labyrinth. There's one dutiful grandma, there.  |  IP: Logged Sean McKinnon Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1712 From: Peabody Massachusetts Registered: Sep 2000 posted 03-04-2010 02:54 PM                        Update my power was restored yesterday!  |  IP: Logged Ian Parfrey Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1049 From: Imbil Australia 26 deg 27' 42.66" S 152 deg 42' 23.40" E Registered: Feb 2009 posted 03-04-2010 03:11 PM                     Sean More power to you  |  IP: Logged Elise Brandt Expert Film Handler Posts: 160 From: Kuusankoski, FIN/ Kouvola, Finland Registered: Dec 2009 posted 03-05-2010 10:41 AM                     Yay Sean !! Was a little worried for you. And the hotel bill. Yes I worry for virtual strangers...  |  IP: Logged

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