Any closer and this guy’d have a nice dented bonnet before the end of the day. This usually happens when the temperature rises a bit after a large snowfall, the whole volume of snow slides down the roof. I can just hear the thuds now as the snow falls.
This can actually be dangerous enough at times. Depending on how the temperature has been changing the snow might be quite hard and if it’s falling off a 3-4 story building in the centre of the city … well lets just say, you wouldn’t want to be underneath. I can’t find any current stats on injuries but a number of people are killed each year by falling snow in Finland, mainly elderly people. But as in the linked story, if a ten-kilo ice block falls on your head it doesn’t matter what age you are.
Edit: Uploaded another pic. I’m just in a winter snappy mood this week.
In places where snow is normal every year and where there’s the risk of snow fall from the roof, they use “anti-snow” roof-tiles.
They are roof-tiles with a sort of hook. These special roof-tiles are laid in a pattern close to the lower edge of the roof and prevent the snow from falling in a whole block.
Sometimes it’s possible to fit these hooks afterwards on older roofs.
Over here it’s a normal thing to see them on the roofs.
I guess you also have something of this kind over there.
Actually I didn’t know that Antonio. I presume they do use something here but I just haven’t noticed anything.
“They are roof-tiles with a sort of hook. These special roof-tiles are laid in a pattern close to the lower edge of the roof and prevent the snow from falling ”
Yes, this is actually a legal requirement in Hungary.
When I first came here, I thought it was all a bit of a laugh, some old dear getting clobbered by an avalanche of snow. But it’s no joke, there are at least a dozen stories in the press every winter about people suffering pretty horrendous injuries (broken necks etc) because of it.
Some one actually died last year when a particularly solid icicle pierced their skull.
U call that snow!
Just had 19 inches in Western Massachusetts today, and about 6 or 8 here in the city, and I still had to walk barefoot and backwards to school … :p
In a year how much snow would U get in your part of Finland? I’ve always imagined that part of the world as getting tonnes of snow.
Here in Boston we’d get about 90inches in an average year, and in a bad year get about 130 or 140 inches.
Mick, the missus reckons we get about half a metre here but i’ve no idea how they come up with the figures. Further north it’d be a metre or more.