How much snow?

realter - Officially, we received 13" of snow and it was dry so when the winds picked up later that evening to 30mph it just blew most of it right off the roof of the camper. Now I don't have to worry about sweeping the snow off the roof and just put some more beer out in the snowdrifts.

The official 4" wasn't too bad, it was the 40-60 mph winds that I hate. First time I have had to go back inside 3 times while blowing the drive and walks. The camper sits all lonely inside a storage garage.:(

jefe 4x4 wrote:
snow load? This is snow load:
Some of the wettest, heaviest Sierra Cement I've seen at our place at 4K feet. The TC is a '98 Lance Lite, wooden frame with no apparent deleterious effect:
jefe

Wow! If you ever ran out of propane to run your heater you could crawl on the roof and make a snow cave and survive!

Buzzcut1 wrote:
only issue is if the fridge is on propane and the vent gets blocked and the pilot goes out, the beer gets warm....

Helllooo? Put the beer in the snow! It will stay cold.

It was a very dry snow and was equal to about .30 inches of rain so it wasn't as heavy as some of our snows.

snow load? This is snow load:
Some of the wettest, heaviest Sierra Cement I've seen at our place at 4K feet. The TC is a '98 Lance Lite, wooden frame with no apparent deleterious effect:
jefe

It snowed for 72 straight hours on my wolf creek and all was good

My camper's roof is about 17' long, about 8' wide. That's 136 square feet, so one foot of snow on that would be 136 cubic feet. A cubic foot of snow is something like 15lb/cubic foot.

15 pcf x 136 cf = 2,040 very evenly-distributed pounds.

I don't know about rating roofs in terms of people, but I'm going to try and sweep literally a ton of snow off my roof. I'm more concerned about the snow retaining a bunch of melt-water around all the roof penetrations when it warms up. Then there's the freeze-thaw cycles...

Not worth going out in the middle of the night, but still...

All right you guys. Now I don't have to worry and I'll go back to drinking my beer, eating some popcorn and watching it snow.

only issue is if the fridge is on propane and the vent gets blocked and the pilot goes out, the beer gets warm....