When you get your house to Charleston, the local termites will throw a
party to celebrate the arrival.
Hmm tastey Yankee building materials all softened up by ice dams!
Kinda like an iced-lumber julep.

-jc

On Wednesday, February 26, 2003, at 04:17  PM, Mike Devonshire wrote:

> In a message dated 2/26/2003 4:33:22 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
>> My mother has this valley problem at the corner of the unheated
>> garage in an area where you have to walk next to the massive icicle
>> to get into the house... sometimes 6' in length and massive like
>> Ralph's leg. We have tried all sorts of things over the years and I'm
>> hoping the last one will be her
>> selling the house during the summer.
>
> Ken-
>
> At the Arctic house with which you are familiar, I recently had an
> icecicle which extended from the SW corner eave to the ground,
> eventually approximately
> 20" in diameter, which encased the rear quarter of the "upstate car",
> so that it could not be moved. Only judicious use of an axe and
> several other implements of war freed the car and allowed access to
> the nearby cellar hatch. I managed to take a nice piece of beaded
> 1790's corner trim out with the axe which will require four hours of
> dutchman time in the Spring.
>
> The real solution to ice damming and related freeze conditions is, I
> feel, to move to Savannah or Charleston(ok, maybe Beaufort, but they
> never pronounce it correctly).
>
> V.I.
>
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