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Offline Daveinthebush

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Snow Load Reaches 260lbs per foot
« on: March 12, 2005, 12:38:06 PM »
Kind of wet here this week and dangerous.

NORTHEAST PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND-
INCLUDING...VALDEZ...THOMPSON PASS
1210 PM AST SAT MAR 12 2005

...SNOW LOAD MORE THAN DOUBLES AS RAIN SATURATES SNOW PACK...

A SNOW CORE SAMPLE TAKEN THIS MORNING AT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN VALDEZ ESTIMATES THAT THE SNOW LOAD IS AVERAGING 260 POUNDS PER SQUARE FOOT. THE SNOW DEPTH IS ROUGHLY 50 INCHES DEEP...A DECREASE OF NEARLY 10 INCHES OVER THE PAST WEEK. HOWEVER...OVER 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN DURING THAT TIME FRAME WITH NEARLY 2 INCHES OF RAIN FALLING YESTERDAY //MARCH 11//.

THE RAIN HAS SATURATED THE SNOW PACK MAKING IT EXTREMELY HEAVY.  ROOFS THAT HAVE NOT BEEN RECENTLY SHOVELED COULD BE IN DANGER OF COLLAPSE AND BOATS THAT HAVE NOT BEEN SHOVELED COULD BE IN DANGER OF SINKING. RESIDENTS ARE STRONGLY URGED TO REMOVE EXCESSIVE SNOW FROM STRUCTURES NOT BUILT TO WITHSTAND EXTREMELY HEAVY SNOW LOADS.
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Tell me about it !!!
« Reply #1 on: March 13, 2005, 06:22:41 PM »
YES YOU ARE RIGHT,  2 barns by my house (not Mine) have crashed because of all the weight.
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Snow Load Reaches 260lbs per foot
« Reply #2 on: March 14, 2005, 02:42:33 AM »
I've been thinking about shoveling the SUNSHINE that keeps falling on my roof. I live in Arizona. Don't move here, we have enough Kalifornians and too many illegal aliens. The Kalifornians bid up our real estate prices and the illegals steal all the chevy pickups.
JM :(
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too late....
« Reply #3 on: March 14, 2005, 05:36:15 AM »
My car port has already crashed.
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« Reply #4 on: March 15, 2005, 07:59:27 PM »
I just got back from LosAnchorage and they have hardly any snow.  Glen Allen has just a bit too and was 45 degrees.  

Sunshine??? Not familuar with the word.   :)

ARGO!  Welcome to the forum,  glad to have a new member.   :D
In Anchorage they have the Alaska Club, here we have 500+" of snow a year.  Enough exercise as my driveway is 100 yards long.
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« Reply #5 on: March 16, 2005, 07:22:44 AM »
Sunshine, boy do we have the sunshine.  Getting longer each day by almost seven minutes.  Snow is beginning to go too.  Snow has settled from 42", down to 25" in the back yard.  Temp is up in the low to mid 40s each day.  Streets are clear.  Highway is dry.  Spring is almost here.  Bears will be out next month.  Hope they don't get fleas from the wolves.
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