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We replaced our roof shortly after buying our house eight years ago. We developed a leak the summer after buying the place, and were deeply concerned, it being the first house we ever bought. We were told that the roof was 1/2" and standard was 3/4" and so we said, with the money we still had after buying a whole house and carpeting and flooring it and all--give us a proper 3/4" roof.
Now, I know they laid a proper roof, because my dad was up it and saw that it wasn't bad, and I still find roofing nails in my backyard to this day. So I have a good roof, sloped in the right places, and it is less than 10 yrs old, but I spent today listening to news stories about roof collapses b/c of too much snow--I am not equipped to go on my roof and shovel off snow. The "settling" noises that I normally hear during rainstorms and fierce winds, are right now making me damn near mental--
Also--my neighbor's patio table, which was probably a meter high, is a centimeter from vanished under the snow--that is a lot of freaking snow. If I think about this much being on my roof, I get a little panicky--even knowing the strong winds and the slope should mostly knock the snow off.
I am so blaming this on the increased moisture caused by glacial melting and all from global warming--because after all, it was over 32 degrees F and even raining for a bit, but still did this. Jim Inhofe and his generations can totally get stuffed! 32O is not even cold for Philly! I want the 19 degree cold that freezes my hair but doesn't make me scared that the wires across the street are weighted down with a buttload of snow! Where I don't suppose the lights are dimming. Where I still can dig out in a plausible amount of time to get to work and even do some!
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