OrioN
2008 2500 170" EXT
Looks like he's facing Mecca......
Looks like he's facing Mecca......
Looks like it might have drifted, got deep on the lee side. In some of those coastal high snow regions leaving a building one winter without heat means crushed to matchwood. Steel roofs that even with a good pitch rely on interior heat transfer to shed the snow.Why a nearly flat roof in deep snow country though? Unless its a normally dry region?
I miss the good ol' days of teepees and indoor fires....I've never heard of anybody here in Alaska that heats their roof to shed snow...
What stops you from doing it in your Sprinter?I miss the good ol' days of teepees and indoor fires....
Two words for that dude, snow blower.Meanwhile in Yakutat....
Took me a while before I got it. Two days, in fact.
Might be old "technology". I first ran into it in a mining camp early '70's. The temperatures were not normally extreme, but the snowfall was, as in 100' + some years. As I recall, the corregated steel roof pitch was a normal 1/3, and the escaping heat from the buildings was enough for the snow to slump off (and occasionally curl under and soak through the walls). When the place shut down for a couple of years, the snow took out the steeply sloped steel roof on the mill. Buildings at other abandoned camps in the area were flattened. The logistics of operating in that environment were, dare I say, challenging.Ahhhh... news to me, a roof that gets warm is not what I want.. I want a cold roof, no icicles or ice dams (that's a sign of poor insulation and/or VB) I've never heard of anybody here in Alaska that heats their roof to shed snow, the closest "roof heating" would be heat tape along the eaves to thaw/prevent ice build ups... imagine the ice build up on the ground along buildings if they cleared their roofs like that...
the snow seems pretty level so I don't think it was windy... I believe it's the Glacier Bear Lodge and it's shut down during the Winter so I doubt it's heated... the main and out buildings are probably winterized and just a Caretaker in a small cabin there like most fishing lodges in Ak are in the offseason.... you can see the high pitch roof shed snow and he's stuck shovelling the flatter roofed buildings...
steel roofs are nice because they are slick and allow snow to slide off easier...
They’ve now had their day in court.Hope they throw the proverbial book at these idiots: 3 men face federal charges for approaching bears eating in Brooks River at Katmai National Park