A Photo a Week Challenge: Ice, Ice, Baby
No ice this year, but we have had some astounding, huge, ice dams in past winters. This was shot from inside through the ice. It was the winter when we didn’t have any snow until the very end of January, but managed to accumulate more than 12 feet by mid-March. After it began snowing, it forgot to stop.
The “grid” in the background is the window screen. I should have removed it before winter. The ice destroyed it.
Icicles look pretty, but they do a lot of damage to houses, especially roofs and eaves. Ice weighs down tree branches, causing them to snap. Sometimes, ice will cause entire trees to fall. Ice dams can prove dangerous.
You can more clearly see the screen in this picture. By now, the ice had formed a curtain.
A big one can weigh several hundred pounds. I know people who have been seriously injured by falling ice.
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It can back up under the shingles and leak into the house too. We’ve had that happen. What a nightmare!
Leslie
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Pretty and very destructive. We got off easy, probably because we had the roof shoveled, which stopped the dams from further buildup. Many people needed entirely new roofing. I don’t look forward to a rerun of this particularly photo op.
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Peter use to get up and shovel the roof- not anymore. It’s just too dangerous. The problem when other people do it is they can be rough and remove the shingles in the process.
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We hire whoever we can get. My son is twitchy about heights and while Garry is not, he is past the age when he should be shoveling anything. And then, there’s the falling.
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Yes – then there’s the falling. That’s the big worry. We have to keep our men safe. I know Peter would sneak up there if I wasn’t keeping an eye on him.
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Magic winter feeling!
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Magic, as long as you have really good insurance!
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Some years it can be dangerous to walk down the gangway between our house and the next. We always look up. There is no ice up there right now.
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A good friend of ours was inspecting his property and one of those big ones fell on him. He was in the hospital for week … and he has lived here his whole life, so he knew. He just didn’t think that one could hit him. They are very dangerous both to living and non-living things.
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Dangerous and beautiful. The ice curtain on the screen is amazing! Great shots, Marilyn. Thanks for joining the challenge!
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I no longer have that screen. it was destroyed by the ice. Fortunately, I was able to use a different screen from a same-sized window, but I have lost any romance I ever had for glittering icicles. I now just find them decoratively scary — like a large, wild animal. Beautiful creatures with big teeth and claws 🙂
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Growing up, my father would always warn us about watchjng for falling iciclss. He would lead us in missions to knock them off the house whenever they formed.
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Except that knocking them off can cause some serious damage to gutters and shingles. The best thing is to do whatever you can to get them when they are small. Ours were too big to knock off without damaging something — including US! 😉
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I agree they are dangerous both to humans and the house! Amazing these are so big!
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That was February 2015. We had a LOT of snow with extreme cold most of the time. I could skip a rerun of that one forever.
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