Got Caught
OK...so I got caught in all this snow with my slides out. As of now, there's about 14" of accumulated snow and ice on top of my fifth wheel, with the slide deployed. I tried to get up there to brush...
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Me Again wrote:
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In December 1996 that happen in Western Washington and a lot of covered marinas collapsed around the shores of Puget Sound! We had just gotten our new boat the fall, and I got it out of the slip in Edmonds in a snow storm on Friday night and moved it to our Yacht club dock in Seattle. The marina went down on Sunday morning and the video of our dock going down made national news.
Chris
The marina at Seabeck sank was was never replaced, the one at Keyport was rebuilt.
The Olympic College Library roof collapsed, as did the Bremerton Albertsons Grocery (it's still sitting with no roof to this day)
I know of four RVs that also caved in, not ours as I went out and brushed it off.
But the report was that all the other damaged, totaled together was less then the loss in one US Navy building whose roof failed. The building was the storage area for many (MANY) millions of dollars of electronics.
The root cause was we went from rain, to freezing rain, to snow, more snow, then back to rain. This combination caused many down-spouts to be filled with ice. This allowed the water on the roofs to collect and finally.....
