My snow stories. We only got 5 feet - only- but it was heavy wet stuff, and because the ground wasn't frozen the bottom inch or two turned icy pretty fast. My 66 year old 120 pound wife did 2 flat roofs pretty much by herself. She broke 2 shovels. They really shouldn't allow flat roofs in the snow belt. While they don't collapse very often, that's mostly media hype driving around trying to find one, they leak like **** after a while. I'm kinda proud that several years ago when we re-roofed a commercial building I talked everyone into a peaked roof replacing the old flat one. The snow will slide off in time.
I did the drives and parking lot with a 2 wheel drive NH 3930 with a loader. Weighs in around 7000 pounds so it could handle stuff if I didn't take huge bites but shaved edges instead. Pulled out 2 of my neighbors plow trucks and cleaned out the roadside piles the plows left.
If you live in SoCal it probably seems like snow armageddon but hey, it's Buffalo. We deal with it. We don't get wildfires, tornadoes, earthquakes, DROUGHTS, or hurricanes, just a monumental pasting every 20 or 30 years. I think it's kinda cool.
Yeah, some of my pals lost old barns and greenhouses, but greenhouses are inherently flimsy, and barns get old and collapse unless they burn first. Knowing the guys who made the national media with their collapses I feel certain that they were properly insured and will be OK in the long run albeit aggravated in the short term.
So it went into the 50s a few days later and the predicted great floods never happened, severely disappointing our pals at The Weather Channel who had flown a team in to cover things. Flew in ? Yep the airport never closed, I don't think they got more than 10 inches, a dusting as we say, which our snow removal guys can do without breaking a sweat.
Like I said, we deal with it.
