If you've gotta put the door on the side where the snow slides off you're
supposed to build a small,covered porch like thingy.  Up here we call it a
stoop, I guess because the roof isn't usually all that high and tall people
have to stoop to go under.  The purpose of the stoop is the roof deflects
the snow when it comes off the main roof.

At school they have some sort of bars that hold the snow on the roof.  One
year there must have been at least 3 ft of snow and ice up there but nobody
had brains enough to go shovel it off.  It's a wonder the roof didn't fall
in.

And that's the wisdom from the frozen north,  Ruth




At 5:21 PM -0500 1/22/04, Bruce Marcham wrote:
>Those old-timers were smart.
>
>Unfortunately this can't always be done in The Big Stone Village what with
>their row houses.  I guess a lot of the row houses have the roofs sloped
>only to the rear but that results in a flat pitch and a big snow load.  Or
>they have a shallow pitch to roof drains and end up with the dreaded "flat
>roof" (no snow shed off the side except that that collects on the parapet
>walls to the point that it falls over).
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Ruth Barton
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