Building Discontent

So we will see if our cleanup crew is still speaking to us in a few days. After multiple local stories of buildings and barns collapsing under the weight of the recent snowfall, we decided yesterday that the buildup on the Arena’s southern shed roof needed to come off. Unfortunately the only method that would work was the least sexy of all: the venerable snow shovel. That shed roof that is 200′ x 20′ with roughly 3′ to 4′ of snow on it in some places so the guys are definitely going to sleep well these next few nights.

The rather scary picture from a dairy farm in nearby Chester, VT that really got us going yesterday morning can be seen here. Granted the Arena is a steel building with a snow load rating that should be more than capable of holding up under current conditions but it’s just not a risk we feel like taking however unlikely it might be. The other two smaller barns meanwhile seem to have lost the majority of their snow, other than some normal buildup on the north (uphill away from the sun) side of the Main Barn.  Hard to believe but Spring is is just 5+ weeks away…