December 7, 2005 - Snow on the Roof
The cold snap continues - we are about 25 degrees below normal - lows in the teens below zero. The snow has stayed on the barn nearly a week now - this is longer than any of the last few winters.
Usually, snow is soon followed by a warm day and it doesn’t take much of a warm day for the metal barn roof to shed its load of snow - usually in one or a few big “Swooshes” when the snow slides off in one big avalanche. You don’t want to be near the barn when that happens - it would knock you over and bury you. I’ve been lucky enough to see it happen a time or two. The first time it happened, I heard it and couldn’t figure out what made the noise until I saw the big piles of snow by the barn.
