We've got a 40-foot wide icicle/avalance-in-waiting!
Last year we got a 10-inch snow in late October before we put the deck furniture away. A similar avalance crushed the furniture when the avalance came sliding off.
At one time we had "snow angels" mounted on our "standing seam" steel roof to keep this from happening, but the avalances have slowly ripped them all off the seams -- leaving gaping holes we've patched with flashing and caulking.
We don't use the front entrance this time of year.
