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We had massive icicles on the house from the constant snow storms we've had in February -- as my friend Andy Miller remarked the other day on the icy stalactites handing from his house: "They're big enough to kill a whale."
Ours were immense as well. But late yesterday, Denise hear a sound like thunder as snow avalanched from our roof -- a fairly common occurrence at our place, since we have a slate roof and thus it has a very steep pitch. In fact, I can't get our car into the back of the house because the roof has dumped snow three or four feet deep on the driveway on the west side.
But this was the east side, and Denise said it was really loud.
There was a good reason for that. The avalanche took down the gutters along the east side of the house. Peeled them right from the house, tearing them off the downspout and ripped them in twain about halfway down the length of the house. Pretty spectacular. And I suspect, pretty expensive to replace, which isn't good. About the last thing Denise and I need to do is scramble to find another $500 (the deductible on the house insurance) to repair the damage. Damn...
I'd ask for Spring, but then we're likely to get a flooding downpour to fill the basement...
Anyway, for your amusement, here are the icicles on the west side of the house, as they were before I went and knocked them off lest the same thing happen on that side of the house...
Ours were immense as well. But late yesterday, Denise hear a sound like thunder as snow avalanched from our roof -- a fairly common occurrence at our place, since we have a slate roof and thus it has a very steep pitch. In fact, I can't get our car into the back of the house because the roof has dumped snow three or four feet deep on the driveway on the west side.
But this was the east side, and Denise said it was really loud.
There was a good reason for that. The avalanche took down the gutters along the east side of the house. Peeled them right from the house, tearing them off the downspout and ripped them in twain about halfway down the length of the house. Pretty spectacular. And I suspect, pretty expensive to replace, which isn't good. About the last thing Denise and I need to do is scramble to find another $500 (the deductible on the house insurance) to repair the damage. Damn...
I'd ask for Spring, but then we're likely to get a flooding downpour to fill the basement...
Anyway, for your amusement, here are the icicles on the west side of the house, as they were before I went and knocked them off lest the same thing happen on that side of the house...