Having a metal roof is nice, because the snow doesn’t have to be brushed off of your roof.

This is the first time that I have actually been home when it came down, though. It starts out sounding a little like thunder, but then it doesn’t stop for a good 20 or 30 seconds and begins getting much louder. That, and it makes your entire house shake.

I am just glad that I put the plywood over all of the shrubs that are right in the line of fire.

Thankfully, the patio chair in our back yard was already buried under 4 feet of snow, so I doubt that the pressure of all that falling snow will damage it much in its nice little insulated shell. The bowl in our back yard collects all of the drift from the yard and what comes over the water, despite being 4 or 5 feet above the water. I am sure that no small amount of that is what slides off of the roof as well. I don’t plan on using my back door too much right now.