Up On The Roof

As I mentioned in the last post, we've received about five feet of snow in the last thirty days.  We have also had record breaking cold temperatures.  As a result, the snow pack simply is not melting and there is more snow than we know what to do with.  This morning, the governor took the extraordinary step of urging state residents to remove snow from their roofs, prior to the arrival of the next big storm, expected mid-week (during my runs yesterday and today, I saw people doing roof snow removal on every third house, at least).  We have more than enough snow on our roofs, as the result of some excellent insulation work that Lee did about six years ago; because our attic is so well insulated, not enough heat escapes to melt the snow.  We were able to borrow a roof rake (because you can't actually buy one in Connecticut right now) for a few hours this afternoon and clear off some spots on our roof.  The snow was more than three feet deep in some spots and we hope that the snow we were able to remove is enough.  Although (knock on wood) we have not had any leaking, our second floor ceilings are beginning to crack from the weight and there are new cracks on many of the wall on the second floor as well.

View of the sunroom porch from inside the house. 

The roof rake in action. 

Falling snow. 

FYI - Lee is petrified of heights.  He was not thrilled to be out there and Elizabeth was very worried that he was going to fall off of the roof.

The garage roof - we only got so much off of it before working on the house again.