Ice storm ...Wow

[MDNY]

Bird,

It's tough to consider ice shielding in your climate and the possiblity of ice is almot none. It could be something you might consider when you have the roof re-shingled in the future. The cost would be outwayed by piece of mind. We have an elaborate roof design on our house, not much just six roofs and the garage as well. So our roof pitches will help with the snow and ice issue and the ice shield will do the rest.

 

[njrqs]

So do you guys get "Hail" then??

We have hail where rain drops freeze and get (I think) coated by more moisture and freezes and over and over when they fall to the ground they can be gold ball or cricket ball size.

They strip trees and shatter roofs, cars etc.

Get that often in some parts here.

Ice storms sound bad but look good.

Being in the building game it is interesting to hear of all the climate realted things you guys have to consider.

Scary - All we build to are Cyclone ratings (Like a hurricane - Same thing I think)

Cheers

 

[Bird]

Neil, we don't get hail often, but it does happen. Most of the time, it's pretty small stuff that doesn't do much, if any, damage, but every once in awhile . . .. Once in the late '70s, I (and all my neighbors) had to have our houses re-roofed after a hailstorm, and I had to replace one broken window. Then it was either '96 or '97 when hail did over $2,000 worth of damage to my wife's car. The most severe damage I've seen from hail was '55 or '56 in Oklahoma. We measured one egg shaped hail stone that was 3.5" long. That one destroyed crops, severely damaged cars, houses, and trees.

 

[looch]

January/February 1998, we were 21 days without power. Here are a few <A target="_blank" HREF=http://205.156.54.206/er/btv/html/ice98.html>images</A> of a town in New york about 10 miles from my place.

 

[Thomas]

It doesn't seem that long ago,but it sure was a eye opener.
Hard to believe ice can even bring down those high voltage transmission lines and towers that go cross country.

 

[njrqs]

Yep I seem to recall seeing that on the news.

Just the sheer weight of the ice must be incredible.

Cheers

 

[GrantMO]

I heard on the news today that a spruce tree 25 feet tall and 12 feet at the base could hold 5 tons of ice during last weeks storm. No wonder so many trees were snapping.

 

[frank_f15]

i personaly will settle for a good old fashioned snow storm, u may not be able to drive or go far, but for the most part it ain't dangerous, now ice and wind, and floods are a real pain in the butt. now of course this year we had them all/w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif