Posted on 02/27/2008 6:09:22 PM PST by rdl6989
CONCORD, N.H. - Another snowstorm swept across New England on Wednesday, toppling seasonal snowfall records and dumping so much heavy snow on buildings that some collapsed under the weight.
An unoccupied summer pizza shop collapsed at Weirs Beach in Laconia, after the roof sagged about halfway into the two-story building and bowed the walls out, officials said.
On Tuesday, several people had to flee as the roof fell in at the Over Easy Cafe in Ossipee, N.H.
The dangerous snow load has kept roofing contractors and homeowners been busy.
"People can't keep up with the snow. They think it's going to stop, but it's just not stopping," said Shawn Greenwood, owner of Greenwood Construction, in St. Johnsbury, Vt.
"I've been roofing for 20 years and this is the worst I've ever seen," he said. "I was shoveling a roof off one day two weeks ago and the house next door caved in."
In Vermont, Burlington's 7.6 inches pushed the official snowfall past the February record of 34.3 inches and the winter record from December, January and February of 96.9 inches.
Around a foot of snow had fallen in parts of Vermont and New Hampshire.
Concord already had set a record for the snowiest December, January and February, and the storm pushed the total for the three months to 97.5 inches. For the entire snow season, Concord has seen 99.6 inches, off the record of 122 inches, set in the winter of 1873-74, but still enough to make it the 10th snowiest winter on record.
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Sometimes our Creator plays funny little games when fools get out of line!!
This may be alphagore’s Titanic.
Don’t “fly in the face of God.”
Don’t you know?This is all caused by global warming.What B.S.
There are fools in this world who really believe that the cold weather proves global warming is real.
I work with them.
“Mr. Al Gore, paging Mr. Al Gore, you’re wanted on the courtesy phone”.
Irrelevant. All of this is meaningless to the tune of $100 million. This is presumably what he has made on his carbon credit scam. Is he going to be penalized for creating a huge web of lies told endlessly by his brainless minions? I also sincerely doubt many investors will be after him because he enriched them so much.
Yeah, he’s got that whole special interest thing down better than anybody else.
Greetings from southern New Hampshire!
Worst winter, in terms of constant snow cover, that I recall, and I’ve been here 40 years. No blizzards, no below-zero temps, just a constant barrage of storms dumping about half a foot each, starting in mid-December (which was early compared to recent years).
Up north, it’s worse, as the article describes. If you have a summer cottage up here, you better get someone to clean off the roof.
It’s so bad, the owls are starving. They can’t find critters, due to the snow cover.
I see it as....G*D giving us a message!
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Where and when was that pic taken...awesome.
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