<p>We got dumped on again today. I’d guess at least another 6" of snow. Anyone else?</p>
<p>another 6 inches here! at least no ice this time!</p>
<p>It’s been raining here all day…temps above freezing. It’s supposed to be COLD overnight so it will all freeze. I don’t think rain all day is going to help the snow covered roofs in this region!!</p>
<p>We were supposed to get six inches last night but I can’t see any evidence of it so perhaps it was too warm for snow. This morning the snow is melting pretty fast on the side with sun exposure which I’m happy about. I might pick up a hammer and spike to split up the heavy ice today. I don’t see a lot of melting on the other side which has a lot of snow which has me concerned. Hopefully I see some melting today and tomorrow with the warm temps.</p>
<p>BC…and then it snows again on Tuesday…and maybe Thursday…I’m sick of this. Oh…did I say that already?</p>
<p>The forecast in my area just has light snow and flurries a few days this week. I don’t see anything about accumulation. The good part is that Sunday, Monday and Tuesday are relatively warm.</p>
<p>Having folks on my roof clearing the snow right now. My 600 ft driveway is 3 inches deep in ice. They had to carry their equipment up hill on the driveway.</p>
<p>On a more positive note - it’s gorgeous out today! Sun shining, probably about 40 degrees, great February thaw. Get rid of some ice and snow in time for two storms predicted for this week.</p>
<p>The down side to the warmer weather is now the ice under the shingles is MELTING and water is flowing IN the garage. Lovely. BUT DH did clear the ice dam away so it should be fine once the sun and wind dry it out…but what’s already there…well…now it’s melting.</p>
<p>I’m hoping they are WRONG about snow here Tuesday morning.</p>
<p>I had a gutter collapse today because there was so much ice and water it couldn’t hold the weight. The front side just kind of peeled down and all the ice came down at once. Made an impressive sound.</p>
<p>At least there is no more ice dam on that side of the house. :)</p>
<p>The icicles on the corner (3 to 4 feet long) broke loose in one giant chunk and split themselves in half right on the power line from the pole. Didn’t seem to rip anything out or do other damage, thankfully.</p>
<p>And since I had the roof shoveled ($400!!!) the water has stopped coming in the house, so that is a good thing.</p>
<p>What a day.</p>
<p>It hit 44 degrees here. I got rid of more of the ice dam. It’s about 40% the length of the roof now which is to say that it’s no longer a problem. I’m going to lean out the window and try to clear more ice with the shovel and bang some of the really deep ice (10 inches) with a big wrench handle.</p>
<p>While I was outside, I saw a neighbor on his roof. He was in a sitting position with a steel shovel digging the ice off his roof. He was able to get some very impressive pieces of ice off his roof - in fact he cleared it completely. How did he stay up? His wife was leaning out the window holding him by his suspenders! I’m not that desperate at this time and I’d worry that a metal shovel, used as a lever to raise the ice, could do some damage to the roof.</p>
<p>It is nice to go out without having to wear gloves.</p>
<p>And we get another sunny, warm day tomorrow.</p>
<p>We had a huge amount of snow on our roof.</p>
<p>It warmed up enough for it to fall off in huge chunks, smashing the shrubs it encountered on the way down.</p>
<p>It also sheared off a ventilation pipe.</p>
<p>Fortunately my (handy!) husband noticed it and fixed it himself.</p>
<p>It put a big hole in the roof, so it would have been a disaster if we had rain and snow today!</p>
<p>You must have a pretty sharp-angled roof.</p>
<p>Spent an additional hour (in two parts) banging away at the ice. I was at Sears this afternoon looking at hammers. I couldn’t find a decent chisel though. All they had was crowbars and crowbars are angled so they would deflect some of the force. I wondered why they had so many and so many kinds of crowbars - lots of robbers doing breaking and entering in these tough times?</p>
<p>I watched the forecast for the rest of the week and it doesn’t sound like we’re going to get much. weather.com has some mention of flurries and snow showers but I haven’t found any forecasts for substantial amounts of snow this week in New England. Let’s hope it stays that way.</p>
<p>Next week, the highs are all above freezing so I’m hoping that the roof gets the benefit of a solar solution.</p>
<p>It snowed a few inches but it has all melted already. Temps are in the mid-30s here. I left the thermostat at 72 degrees this morning - we’ll see if that helped. I guess the winter is finally relenting.</p>
<p>Oh, god. It is disgusing out there today. A little snow and now rain. I got the driveway clear – wearing Sorel snow boots, rain pants, my full-geek neon yellow running windbreaker, and my beyond-all-bounds-of-geekiness Seattle sombrero rain hat! </p>
<p>The deck is another story. The ice dam fell this morning and broke into blocks of ice approximately 8 inches by 16 inches by 36 inches that are now frozen into the icy slush. I don’t think I can budge them. All my efforts to keep the deck clear… and now trying to get to the grill will require roping up, putting on crampons, and navigating something that resembles the [Khumbu</a> Ice fall on the south side of Everest](<a href=“http://www.ulstercancer.org/events/images/At%20the%20Mercy%20of%20Everest%20amended%203.JPG]Khumbu”>http://www.ulstercancer.org/events/images/At%20the%20Mercy%20of%20Everest%20amended%203.JPG).</p>
![http://www.ulstercancer.org/events/images/At%20the%20Mercy%20of%20Everest%20amended%203.JPG]Khumbu](http://www.ulstercancer.org/events/images/At%20the%20Mercy%20of%20Everest%20amended%203.JPG%5DKhumbu){kind=link}
<p>Blech.</p>
<p>Well, you could use an ice chopper on it. I don’t know about using one on a deck but I’ve chopped many a thick sheet of ice with mine.</p>
<p>Is that a charcoal grill or a gas grill? I’ve always wondered what would happen if you poured lighter fluid or that starter gel on ice and lit it. If it’s a gas grill, anyway to send the heat over to the ice?</p>
<p>I was wondering how powerful a laser you’d need to melt ice on a roof yesterday.</p>
<p>It’s a charcoal grill, but with a propane tank and flame to light the charcoal. These were huge blocks of solid ice. Heat wasn’t going to do anything to them anytime soon.</p>
<p>Does anyone else have a slate roof? When the ice gives way it sounds like a freight train running through the house. If we’re lucky it doesn’t take any of the slate with it.</p>
<p>I’d like one of the snow melters they were using in Chicago last week.</p>
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I do and it’s got a very steep pitch, so I know the freight train sound. There’s no standing on it to clean it off and we have to be very careful with the snow rake. I’m going to try those heating cables in the gutters that were mentioned earlier in this thread. My gutters are completely full of ice.</p>
<p>BCEagle and interesteddad - you two are a total hoot. I wish you had been video taping your ice/snow clearing processes (complete with clothing and accessory choices) - I’ll bet it would have made the top youtube video of the week!</p>