Cleaning snow off of your roof
January 31, 2009 by Jay McGillicuddy
Filed under Personal
The last couple of days have been just fun. We had another snowstorm this week and it wasn’t as bad as the past few storms have been. The one thing that made this storm different was the first 6 “to 7″ inches was nice and fluffy.
I was able to go out during the day and shovel the driveway a few times so I wouldn’t have to shovel it all at once.
The next inch was all sleet and my driveway was coated with ice.
The next morning I was able to walk on the driveway with no problem as there was still a dusting of snow on top of the sleet.
I brought the trash down to the end of the driveway, a bag in each hand, when all of a sudden I fell to the ground with my feet coming out from underneath me. What a bummer as it really hurt my right hip and I also got a nice raspberry on my right arm. I am beginning to really hate winter.
On Wednesday I noticed the bathroom ceiling sheet rock was splitting. I knew right then and there that time was needed to get on the roof and shovel the snow off to relieve the ice dams that were forming. Out comes the ladder and the roof rake.
I am not a big fan of heights and my roof is not that high only about a story and a half. No sweat right?
I was able to get a lot done on Thursday on the northwest side and I needed two sets of gloves as they got soaking wet pretty quickly.
One thing to always remember never rake the roof on the side that the wind blows. Gets a little chilly when the snow blows back in your face. The good thing is the ice dams have been relieved an no further damage will be done.
This is where I started Thursday.
You poor guy! I wish you would be careful when walking on the ice…I can just see you racing down the drive to catch the garbage men in time. You could have broken something.
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Ice falls and slips scare me, especially now. I hope you’re okay. What is a ‘raspberry’, that you got on your arm?
I bought a roof rake, can barely even reach the roof – I need a 6 foot plus tall guy to come do this for me. I could get the 1st 2-3 inches, and at that I couldn’t do it well at all. They’re too wobbly and unwieldy and I have to stand too close to the house to get a good angle for raking. I did get the roofs on the two ends but not the main roof. With the way the sun shines on my house, I’m down to just a couple of inches at this point, thankfully.
My driveway is still mostly a sheet of ice. My car slid right into the piled up snow when I came home today. Had to rock my way out of that one…. not fun.
You don’t know what a raspberry is? It’s a skin abrasion from falling down. I know someone that is 6′ 9″ and would do a better job than me. I can hardly raise my arms over my head.
Thanks for stopping by my blog! The owl was in the woods during broad daylight and I have about 7-10 pictures of the owl. The owl remained close to use and just watched us, he only flew away after we had gone further into the woods for our hike.
I always hate extreme weathers because they always cause a lot of problem for us. I am wondering who like such weathers. Anyways, I am sorry to know that you were slipped and injured.
Oh my Gosh, you remind me some incident which I have to go through in my life. When I was migrated to Italy and had snow there for first time in my life. I know how difficult that is to manage all that stuff.
I am always happy to see loads of ice but it is always difficult to clean up all that mess. I am sorry for your incident though.