PhineasC

Not worried here yet. Trend has been SE overall this winter.

I plan to have the house stripped and all flashing removed and replaced this summer, so that will probably help somewhat. The roof will also need to be replaced within a few years and that will be the time to see what's going on above the logs in the ceiling. There may be no insulation up there for all I know. This house was built by a local and his buddies, and I know corners were cut and deals were made. I have already seen how they cut corners on the septic drain field and dumped a bunch of clay in there. Being a log home, it will probably never be as tight as a modern wrapped stick-built house. It has seen these icicles for 20 years now with no damage to the roof or wall structures so I haven't been super concerned about it. The deck is another story. The ice build up on the deck is trashing it.

Tell your dad to stay away from Randolph Hill Road in that case. Icicle HQ over here. LOL

Seems kinda hard to believe a house in NNE that receives 150” of snow a year wouldn’t have ANY icicles.

If J. Spin’s old man was as diligent about roofing and insulation as his son is about measuring snow, I’m guessing that house is tighter than a vacuum chamber. LOL

It’s a test. They are constantly testing. Like sizing up potential silverback gorillas to mate with.

Weird. Seems like gutter technology and design is very different over the border here in NNH. LOL I am no gutter expert, but the log home guys I have had out to the house all indicated I was within normal parameters without gutters for the kind of house I have. Perhaps the situation is different for a stick-built house.

You don’t have gutter heaters? Houses over here never have gutters. I haven’t seen any at least.

I’m at the bar in Gorham and these chowdaheads are coming in fully geared up with helmets still on. LOL Seems like they may just drive a snowmobile through the wall next. Place is packed!

@dryslot Snowmobilers from Mass have invaded Gorham this weekend. LOL Huge guys with beards and beer bellies in long Johns and snow bibs everywhere!

It’s a log home with cathedral ceilings everywhere. The ceilings are all whole logs. Not sure what is between that and the roof itself.

Yeah, the barn has a hunter green metal roof and it looks amazing. Definitely want the same on the main house. Makes it look like a Tahoe ski lodge.

It’s on the list to be addressed. There are even worse spots on the southern exposure where the sun melts more. It’s kind of a tough situation because obviously gutters and downspouts would be destroyed by late November here.

Kinda hard to imagine where it goes from here. This is already an absurd amount of winter for me. It’s crazy how the snow just sticks around. I can see why the research stations in Antarctica need to be built on stilts otherwise the doorways would be buried over time. LOL

I posted that one because of the huge number of animal tracks. It’s kinda hard to see in the pic, but it looks like a damn dance party down there behind the barn. Definitely looked like some coyote tracks in there. I saw a Canadian Lynx up here recently as well so I assume they are in the mix. Tons of scat and yellow snow around too. Must have been something exciting going on down there. Snow was up to mid-thigh there at a minimum (and I wasn’t walking on bare ground under there). There is a layer of ice and glacial snow that’s about 2- 4 inches or so under all that.

Let's hope I can keep this going until mid-April.

Some deep, deep winter pics from the compound today. @Fozz, this blows 2009-2010 away. No competition. Best winter of all time for me.

Sounds good for here. It snows the same at 28 as it does at 18. SNE had a good run this winter. Time for spring and the lawn thread down there.

For the Bronx?

3 degrees with breezes to 10 mph here.

I’m sure a sick tree will fall down in Rockville and be blasted all over the news to verify the “ice storm.” Oh, and some lady will say on social media that her steps were glazed and “very slippery” as she left for work. Scary stuff!

Stuck at 7 here on the hill with breezes.

My flight to BWI was just canceled because of this BS "ice storm." Probably should just stay in NH.

Temperature taken = hygiene theater.

You guys just had a series of snow events. Climo says you are due for some stinkers.