[TomC]

Gotta tell you - there is major amount of snow in Moultonborough. I headed up today to shovel the roof at one of my properties (at the other one the maintenance manager is calling in a crew for the whole association). Its a small 800 sqft cabin with about a 6 pitch roof. Without exaggeration, there were spots 5 FEET deep where the wind blew snow up over the ridge and deposited it on the other side. It took a 2-man crew 8 hours to clear the snow down to the shingles. They are calling for rain on Tues and Wed. I can't imagine what water will do to the weight on the roof...

If you have a house up there, it might be a good idea to take a day off and clear your roof or call a roofer - you have to get that snow off..

This was a tough job - we had to get through several levels of snow and ice layers. The maintenance manager I spoke of above was talking to another contractor who is also clearing roofs in the area. They hauled away the snow removed from a 8'x30' roof elsewhere in town and weighed it at the truck scales - it was 16,000 lbs for a load of 67 lbs/sqft. Typical roof load is spec'd at 50lbs/sqft so what is up there now is exceeding code and is probably way too much for 50 year old underbuilt cabins like many of us have.

I don't mean to be an alarmist but I was stunned by the snow pack up there - here in Northern MA I have many bare areas in my yard. The snow bank at the end of my driveway in Moultonboro was nearly 6 ft tall.

I feel good that I'm all set but worry about all the rest of the properties.

Good luck...

Here is a photo of my kids standing on the pile of snow i shoveled from the roof, with there heads above the eave which is ~10ft off bare ground..