Those sure are lightly built covered docks.

Not only that.... how smart do you have to be to get on top of a
roof... most any roof... with a leaf blower and make the snow hit the
ground?

Most of the structures around here are not built to take New England
style snow loads..... so the prudent property owner dispatches the
snow as necessary...



Gene, Here in the midwest this past week, in a narrow band from
Springfield/Kansas City up to Decatur Illinois, we had one of the worst ice
storms on record, followed by the snow. Over a 36 hour period last Thursday,
3 inches of rain fell as freezing rain as a cold front moved through,
forming up to 2" of ice which destroyed trees and left almost a million
households without power. They are still getting power restored to some
folks here 8 days later. The power company has brought in crews form 14
states to help with the grid repair.

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/new...9?OpenDocument

http://www.ameren.com/Outage/ADC_RS_StormCenter.asp

We lost 1 big tree at one of our rental homes, and 2 of our rental homes
were without power for 4 days. Thankfully, we only got the ice and very
little snow here, near St. Louis, but the folks over by the Lake and
Jefferson City got up to 14" of snow on top of the ice. A grocery store roof
collapsed under the weight in Washington MO just yesterday.

I'm pretty sure they couldn't have gotten onto any roof in those conditions,
much less a flimsy tin one.