© Doug Greenwood
The old AT&T building collapsed due to snow load.
The old AT&T building collapsed due to snow load.
Earth Changes
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Winternights3
2023-03-16T16:33:03Z
Time to rethink things, for next years snow could dwarf what's happening now.
Well, one might pick up a shovel, get up on the roof, and remove some of the snow occasionally.
I had done it for my parents when I still lived with them.
I had done it for my parents when I still lived with them.
Baybars That sounds correct.
I remember such episodes from regions in Germany about a decade ago, suffering from the same problems. It didn't take me long to realize that prevalent traditional roof shape is related to climate - and snow.
Unsurprisingly, it were mostly community (i.e. tax) financed buildings in Germany that had the roof cave in. Flat is less surface and less effort, and thus cheaper.
And all that a few years after so many houses were flooded that had been built in the last decades on former water meadow of large rivers ...
I remember such episodes from regions in Germany about a decade ago, suffering from the same problems. It didn't take me long to realize that prevalent traditional roof shape is related to climate - and snow.
Unsurprisingly, it were mostly community (i.e. tax) financed buildings in Germany that had the roof cave in. Flat is less surface and less effort, and thus cheaper.
And all that a few years after so many houses were flooded that had been built in the last decades on former water meadow of large rivers ...
Not much snow down here in Africa (yet?) I've never shovelled snow, I imagine it's gets very old very quickly.
Whilst I have you, i.e. people whose comments I look for - any opinions on earth crust displacement?
Whilst I have you, i.e. people whose comments I look for - any opinions on earth crust displacement?
