BE CAREFUL!!!! Better that the roof falls than that you do. (Not sure about the grammar, but you know what I mean.)

Your deck has ROOTS??? At least it wont blow away in the wind!

Why donÂt you just take the roof down if you donÂt like the view? Then you wouldnÂt need to rake your roof when it snows.

But IÂd say if you werenÂt injured very much when you fell down, maybe your bricks were more holy than holey!

Glad your "personal megaflood" probably wonÂt do too much to contribute to another REAL megaflood! We wouldnÂt want you to get washed away to the sea! I wish theyÂd broadcast that show again. IÂd love to see it from the beginning.

I just reread your post on the original thread and your comment about the guy who originally posited the flood theory being disbelieved. I remember when I was in 5th grade and the teacher was telling us that it didnÂt matter how much the continents looked like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle on a world map, that thatÂs how the earth had been created and that there was nothing at all to any theory that the Eastern and Western hemispheres had ever been connected. I just sat there and kept looking at the map in my book and thinking that what he was saying didnÂt make ANY sense at allÂbut I wasnÂt about to argue with my PAROCHIAL school teacher! The theory of plate tectonics, of course, was unknown at that time.

And then thereÂs the recent "discovery" of another VERY old factÂthat the earthÂs magnetic field reverses. Bet you didnÂt know weÂre really all living an a great big chocolate covered cherry!

And doesnÂt it make you wonder how many other HUGE things there are that we havenÂt figured out yet! And why are we so loath to at least seriously consider such theories when theyÂre put forward by educated people! As recently as 1989 the doctor who proposed the theory that stomach ulcers were caused by bacteria was ridiculed. At least he got the last laughÂwhen he won a Nobel Prize in Â05!

What does this all have to do with gardening? Beats me! I guess Digit would have some trouble gardeningÂor breathingÂif another Megaflood ever hit that area. But since another Megaflood is somewhat unlikelyÂeven with DigitÂs water contribution, IÂm more intimidated by the specter of the Yellowstone Super Volcano! No gardening for a LONG time after that one!

Gonna go! My dizzy brain still isnÂt working too wellÂand all this thinking is making it even dizzier!

Happy gardeningÂin the best of times, and the worst of times,
Skybird

Root? . . . . so much for the spell chequer.

Stomach ulcers are caused by bacteria? I thought they were caused by kids . . . and wondering how home maintenance is going to get done. Is this something else for me to worry about?!?

The last time I climbed on the carport roof, I was the one taking a picture of the tunnel during the Summer. The last time I felt compelled to climb on that carport roof during the Winter months, I created a pile of snow nearly all the way to the eaves. Perhaps I'm getting too cautious. This shot was taken for insurance purposes.

The year I moved to Utah, they had what they called a hundred year blizzard (only comes along once a century). It was the most snow they'd had in 15 years or so (not bad for a once a century event). I watched the news one day and they were advising people to get on their roofs and shovel them off so the roofs didn't collapse. The next night, after a number of people died when they fell off their roofs, the newscasters were telling people to stay off their roofs and to hire professionals if they felt the roofs really needed to be shoveled.

The parochial schools where I grew up taught that all of the continents were once connected, although I don't remember if they used the term Pangaea for the supercontinent. I just remember that they showed how all the pieces obviously fit together.

I remember reading about the guy who discovered the ulcer causing bacteria. I had an ulcer when I was in high school and they told me all sorts of "facts" about ulcers at that time. A few years ago, I was talking to a doctor who told me that nearly everything they told me about ulcers back then is no longer considered valid.

That's what I was thinking when I saw Digit on the roof, BP! Get the devil off the roof! Let it collapse---but don't be on it when it does---or fall off before it does!

Thank you for Pangaea! I couldn't think of it! And besides the fact that the parochial schools you're talking about, I think, are a lot more recent than the one I'm talking about---I went to a VERY conservative parochial school!

Glad you don't have an ulcer anymore (you don't, do you?), and at least they'll know what to do with it if you ever do get another one.

Isn't it interesting that we all believe we live in such enlightened times---and compared to days of yore, we do---but can you even try to imagine how backwards future generations are going to think we were!!!

Olde, no longer conservative,
Skybird

Asphalt impregnated roofing must be very brittle in low temps. I have a question in my mind about the wisdom of simply walking on the roofing during the Winter. When I damaged the deck roof, years ago (needs replacing again), I blamed the snow shovel but I was trying at that time to be careful.

There's a 90% chance of snow over the next 24 hours and a bigger storm after that. I can't quite figure out how much snow we already have . . . There seems to be a lot of local variation and I've reached the point in my yard where I'm having real trouble "storing" all this white stuff. Officially, there was over 1" of precipitation in the last storm but there was already plenty of snow on the roof.

1 inch of water on a 1,000 square foot roof (I've read) amounts to over 600 gallons. Well, the deck roof is about 1/3 that size so there was 200 gallons plus about half that much already there . . . 300 gallons x 8.33 pounds = 2,500 pounds!! The carport is larger so . . . 3,000+ pounds!!! This seems an enormous weight to be supported by widely-spaced 4 by 4 posts.

At least we aren't like the family of one of my daughter's friends. Looks to me like every time there's an opportunity, they set fire to their house . . .

digitS'

Steve - got skis?

My front door faces North East, and never gets sun in the winter. The snow never melts on that side of the roof. Every year for the last 7 years, I have been putting up a 100 foot long heating cable in the rain gutter, so I don't end up with some massive, soggy, icicle-packin' 4000 lb overhang that falls and turns the front porch and sidewalk into a hockey rink. Its a major pain to put up, and a major pain to take down, and I haven't even plugged it in for the last 4 years.

So, of course, this year I didn't put it up.