Mostly gone from my roof. I know this because in the early hours of Saturday morning there was a sound like someone yanking a heavy quilt off off the roof, followed by an almighty crash as all the accumulated snow avalanched to the ground.
I'd have preferred it if the avalanche hadn't removed my gutter, smashed the patio table, and shattered the lid of the big plastic storage thing that houses the lawnmower and other items of garden paraphernalia.
This is my punishment for being a skinflint and not leaving the heating running night and day to melt the stuff.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to workout hte effect of gravity (though I am led to believe they are rather good at it) nor that lots of snow will weigh more than a several of kilograms and such densely packed ice that it has become would do considerable damage.
It also wouldn't surprise me if your insurer decided that you had plenty of time to move said items out of harms way once aware that there was snow on the roof.
Bummer really.
We are just breeding reasonably impressive icicles front and rear. I'm hoping the guttering doesn't give way.
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Yes, but a rocket scientist would undoubtedly cobble together some kind of rocket, launch it into orbit, deploy a satellite and receive photometric telemetry of the build up of snow on his roof. Then he'd run back out to the shed, build a second rocket, launch that, and deploy another satellite with a large IR laser that he'd use to melt the snow and ice off the roof. Before, of course, holding the world to ransom while laughing evilly.
I am not a rocket scientist, of course, just an ex-biochemist. Stuff that happens on my roof may as well be on Mars. It's not like I can much about it, unless I climb up there, and I'm not a registered grown-up that can left unsupervised with a ladder.
Of course, you are probably right, they will reject my claim on the basis that I could have built a jetpack and flown up there to check.
