Closed.

This picture was taken a few days ago.

 This picture was taken this morning after our roof had shed...  

 View out of our windows!

There is still a lot of snow to fall off the roof but most of it has come down!

 A view of the street.

 Adam digging in search of the fuel pipe!

 Houses on our street very heavy with snow.

My project for the day!  You can see the roof of our shed again!

Well it turns out my last post was incorrect...  Apparently 318 inches of snow by January 12th is enough to close down the schools in town and many other places as well!  As crazy as it sounds many of the roofs in town are flat and that much snow is very very heavy.  It finally has gotten to the point that places are closed until they can remove enough snow from the roof that they are not worried about the structures collapsing.  It is incredible.  

We are lucky that our roof is metal and slanted so it will shed eventually and that is what it did last night.  When you have 4 feet of compacted snow falling off a second story window it sounds like the house is collapsing!  We woke up this morning to find that the snow that had shed from our roof had covered several of our windows so Adam and I have spent the better part of today with a shovel in our hands.  I spent the morning getting the snow off of the shed in our back yard before it could collapse!  It was a hard job since you could not just knock down the snow because there was no where for it to fall.  I could not tell where the roof ended and where the ground/snow began.  One way to tell is to step off (which I did several times) only to sink in the snow and then crawl back on the roof!  Adam spent his morning digging and digging until finally we found the pipe that the fuel company needs to get to.  Our house is heated with diesel fuel and if the pipe is buried in snow that means no fuel and no fuel means no heat...  Adam did a great job so that when the fuel company finally makes it here we should be able to get restocked!!