gamby wrote: Yesterday in RI:Not really exaggerating anything.
Good Lord! 
If it snowed like that around here, everyone would starve to death. These people can't drive in the rain, much less something actually slick.
Keep that crap up there. I like my snow melted by 2:00 pm at the latest.
SilverFleet wrote: Any advice in getting rid of ice dams? I have a whopper right outside my back door in a corner of my house.
I've seen heat tapes clipped to the eaves on the roof around here. Any ice damming we get is directly related to poor insulation and/or attic venting. Heat from the attic melts the snow, it runs down until it hits the unheated eave, and freezes there, creating a swimming pool that backs up under the shingles. Really good ice and water shield under the shingles will keep the swimming pool on the roof instead of leaking through the ceiling, but the proper answer is to figure out where the heat is leaking out and fix that.
I assume that when we use the term "ice dam" we mean "damn that ice!"
1988RedT2 wrote: I assume that when we use the term "ice dam" we mean "damn that ice!"
I assume you are south of me...
I shoveled off my porch roof today. It was over 2 feet deep. I hate the snow, but its good for business. Snow on the ground and a clear sky at night means the temps really drop. This means more frozen pipes, more no heat calls, more work where you get to charge extra and the customer says thank you.
This is SWMBO. She is standing next to our new barn. She is 5'11".
So I was on the ferry to Martha's Vineyard for the day this morning, and my wife calls in a panic because there is water leaking in through a window. It is a double wide window that is built out form the wall a bit, and I think it is just due to ice dams. Not sure what I am going to do about it, but it will have to wait until I get off the island this afternoon/evening. Any suggestions? I asked her to use the hosiery trick, and she had our 12 year old chuck one up there. We shall see if it was successful.
Wish me luck.
Nice solid THREE HOUR commute to start my day. Usually takes me 45 minutes.
I drove across PA, CT and part of MA on Monday in the bit of extra "berkeley you" snow that was falling all damn day. The piles on the sides of the road are redonkulous. The cuts across the median for emergency vehicles look like canyons.
I'll say this... I saw about 20 cars in ditches or spun out in 300 miles but most people were doing just fine. I managed to stay between 40-60mph all the way out I84 with zero stoppages for pile-ups. That is progress, folks! I fully expected to have to sleep in my truck.
SilverFleet wrote: Nice solid THREE HOUR commute to start my day.
I'm having to drive my truck to work so I can see over snow banks and not die.
DaveEstey wrote:SilverFleet wrote: Nice solid THREE HOUR commute to start my day.I'm having to drive my truck to work so I can see over snow banks and not die.
After this morning, I think I have convinced myself that I need a jacked-up 4x4 vehicle in my fleet. I was scraping and bottoming out everywhere in my Mazda 3 because of the terrible condition of most of the roads I have to take to work, and I couldn't see over the giant snow banks. I essentially rolled the dice every time I pulled out into traffic.
I've been toying with the idea of getting out of my stalled CSX project and either picking up a cheap Jeep Cherokee or (if I can find one) an AMC Eagle 4x4 wagon and lift it a little. I could also replace my 2wd Dodge Dakota with a small pickup, like a 4x4 Ranger or something like that, but I've been looking for an excuse to own a Jeep product, as I'm the only one of my External Combustion brethren not to have ever owned one.
Pulling out of my driveway currently feels a little too Russian roulette-ish for my liking.
Going to have to put in some time cutting down the snowbanks a bit before the next big storm.
Traffic was also absolutely miserable today. I like the days where everybody else stays home and I have the roads to my properly snow tired self.
Shoveling the roof and chipping ice out of the gutter seems to have eliminated the ice dam. I took the panty hose ice melters that my wife and son threw up there and placed them in the gutter to help melt that. It seems to me that the ice melt is probably not good for the asphalt shingles so I took them off of direct contact with the asphalt shingles. Hopefully the ice dam problem is gone for now. Never had any issues like this in the previous 10 years of living here.
Chris
I don't envy you people, looks like I moved away just in time!
Frankly, I do not understand why anything north of the 40th parallel isn't uninhabited wasteland. That it is not is sure proof that insanity exists.
hey guess what guys? It's snowing... and it's supposed to nor'Easter this weekend.
Yes, I just verb'ed 'Nor'Easter'. Sue me.
Yeah...
So that ice dam started leaking into my house last night. 
It's coming in through a window casing. I was taking turns with SWMBO on a ladder shoveling snow, heating up the ice with my trusty heat gun, and smashing the dams with a hammer. I got a lot of it down, but there's more snow I can't reach. I am picking up a friend's roof rake tonight and going to battle all day tomorrow. I'm hoping I can get enough of the snow off that it will curtail the dams.
This summer, I am investing in some gutter guards.
How concerned should I be about the amount of snow on my roof? My father in law, who actually owns the house, isn't too worried but there's a lot up there.
Mazdax605 wrote: I am tired of all of this snow. It seems like it has been snowing for 2 straight weeks!!! Snowblower is getting a major workout.
Welcome to our hell last year, big snow at the beginning of January, kept snowing off and on through February, and nothing melted until March.....we were running out of places to put snow. Plus, thanks to that first snow, there were 5-8ft walls on either sides of roads that just filled back in with fresh snow when the wind kicked up.
As dad said, it was actually worse than '78 here, because at least then it melted relatively soon after.
cmcgregor wrote: How concerned should I be about the amount of snow on my roof? My father in law, who actually owns the house, isn't too worried but there's a lot up there.
What are your rafters made out of and how far spaced are they?
Good question. I'll get up there and look tonight.
golfduke wrote: hey guess what guys? It's snowing... and it's supposed to nor'Easter this weekend. Yes, I just verb'ed 'Nor'Easter'. Sue me.
I just got a blizzard warning on my phone for north of here (RI). Boston area could see another foot. I'm afraid to see a weather report. Another foot of snow will be absolute calamity up there.
I am in a town about 20 miles north of where I live, and where my grandmother lives(Rockland), and man they have way more snow than we do!! All the roads are like driving through tunnels. This is the worst I remember, and I was alive for 78, but only 4 years old so no memories. Usually we get a bunch of snow, but we also get some warm days to knock it down some before more comes in. This is getting redonkulous!!
Chris
In reply to Mazdax605:
Yeah, we had a string of 50 degree days in the middle of last February. No such luck in the foreseeable future.
I am 33 years old, and this is the worst winter I can remember. I have never seen anything like this, and it's not over yet.
My commute to work is nearly impossible after the last storm. It took me 3 hours yesterday, and almost 3 hours today. I may work from home permanently until it melts.
STAHP.
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