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In article >,
I am Tosk > wrote:

> In article >,
> says...
> >
> > In article >,
> > brooklyn1 > wrote:
> >
> > > >I'm surprised you don't at least have a tent cover over it. Must be a
> > > >bear to dig all the snow off of it before you can drive it?
> > >
> > > Maybe you never lived in snow country.
> >
> > I have.
> >
> > > A tent would be a disaster,
> > > snow is *heavy*...
> >
> > Yes, but with a sufficiently pointy roof, most of it slides off. Does
> > not build up to significant weight. But, your point is well taken none
> > the less. ;-)
>
> In theory But not in practice. The snow creates dips and stretches the
> roof material around the plastic tube rafters and builds up snow, and
> water for that matter. A good snow storm with heavy wet snow would stick
> right in those depressions and it would be as the other poster
> suggested, a disaster. I work a lot outside in the North East here and I
> have a couple of types of outdoor structures. They do not do well in
> snow and are also vulnerable to heavy thunderstorms/wind...
>
> Scotty, note, this has been my experience, yours may be different.

When we did live in snow country, dad had made a large, long handled
scraper out of lumber and regularly scraped the snow off of our roof
during a snow storm. ;-) Seems daddy was no dummy...
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