Last night, a weather system rolled in off the pacific north west coast packing 85 mile per hour winds. Good thing I wasn't out there doing a little off shore sailing. However, I awoke to find 16+ inches of snow on top of the shop roof and bony chills ran up my cold spine.
Rather than work on the boat this morning, I thought it best to spend 5 hours shoveling snow off the shop roof.
Here's why:
Here's why:
a 30ft. x 60ft shop sports a total roof surface area of 1,800 ft^2
and here's the rub:
I took a flat blade shovel and sliced out one square foot of this snowfall and placed it on the bathroom scale. Turns out that one square foot of this wet Oregon snow weighed in at over 15.2 lbs.
Multiply that times 1,800 ft^2 and that comes out to be 27,360 lbs of snow on top of a tin roof shop framed out with 2 x 4's.
With a prediction of snow changing over to a wet mix of sleet and rain, this snow could potentially soak up another 5 or 10 lbs per sq ft creating a total snow load of over
22 tons!
After shoveling the snow off the shop, I came inside for a cup of hot chocolate and noticed visible bows in the ceilings of our house, so I shoveled another 15 tons of snow off the roof of the house. Since I didn't have a snow shovel, today I moved 37 tons of snow with an upturned push broom.
"Who said building a boat isn't fun?"
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Ah yet 'nuther good reason to build a boat and head south! :-)
We had wicked winds blow through the other night as well. I was up half the night waiting for my boat shed to take off like Dorthey's house in the Wizard of Oz. Luckily it didn't, Whew!
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