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Winter 2015 - boom or snow job?

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Kepler said:
I can still use the door to sweep the excess snow. My door has about 6 inches clearance from my front stoop, so as long as I open it every couple hours there's no problem. But do outside doors in heavy snowfall places swing in?
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Almost all of our "primary" doors swing in. Most are to accommodate storm doors. Even the ones that can't really accommodate storm doors swing in.
 
Re: Winter 2015 - boom or snow job?

Kepler said:
do outside doors in heavy snowfall places swing in?
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Most [cold-weather] places have two sets of doors, an inside one that swings in and a storm door that swings out.

In some parts of the country, we just have two sets of doors, a summer door on the ground floor and a winter door somewhat higher up.

When we visited Yellowstone Lodge in the winter, they stopped the snowcoach on the way in and shoved a 15 foot rod through the snow until it hit the ground. About 2-1/2 feet of the rod was above the top of the snow. At the parking lot, just the top of the "stop" signs was visible. If you visit in the summer, those signs are 8 feet tall.

(yeah, they are still 8 feet tall in the winter too....)
 
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so far, at least, one mitigating feature about all the snowfalls this winter has been that they are the light, fluffy kind of snow. I hope we don't get that wet, heavy, semi-slushy snow, that is a much bigger pain.
 
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MarkEagleUSA said:
Every house door I've ever seen has swung in. Storm doors swing out.
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I meant the storm door. I was wondering whether in high snowfall areas there's some kind of funky double hinging on storms doors that allows they to also swing in. Although some modern conveniences have not reached my town (buried power lines, fiberoptics, the germ theory of disease) we do have regular in-swinging doors. :)
 
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Kepler said:
I meant the storm door. I was wondering whether in high snowfall areas there's some kind of funky double hinging on storms doors that allows they to also swing in. Although some modern conveniences have not reached my town (buried power lines, fiberoptics, the germ theory of disease) we do have regular in-swinging doors. :)
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FWIW, fire codes here dictate that public buildings have outward swinging entrance/exit doors. We're hip like that.
 
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FreshFish said:
Most [cold-weather] places have two sets of doors, an inside one that swings in and a storm door that swings out.

In some parts of the country, we just have two sets of doors, a summer door on the ground floor and a winter door somewhat higher up.

When we visited Yellowstone Lodge in the winter, they stopped the snowcoach on the way in and shoved a 15 foot rod through the snow until it hit the ground. About 2-1/2 feet of the rod was above the top of the snow. At the parking lot, just the top of the "stop" signs was visible. If you visit in the summer, those signs are 8 feet tall.

(yeah, they are still 8 feet tall in the winter too....)
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My family used to go on ski vacations in Vermont, and I dimly recall doubled stop signs nailed to telephone polls (one around 6 feet, a second around 12 feet) up around places like Pico and Killington.
 
Re: Winter 2015 - boom or snow job?

FreshFish said:
so far, at least, one mitigating feature about all the snowfalls this winter has been that they are the light, fluffy kind of snow. I hope we don't get that wet, heavy, semi-slushy snow, that is a much bigger pain.
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Ha! And sure enough the very night of this post, we get a wet, heavy, semi-slushy snow and as am added bonus a bit of rain on top of it, just enough to make it heavier, but not enough to wash it away. :) Fortunately, there wasn't a lot, and the banks have settled enough that there was a place to put the snow. But man, the slush where the plows and come by was heavy. It also got warm, may have hit 40.

I have a fascinating ice dam. The icicles are about eight feet long and the dam is a good 18 inches thick and it's cantilevered out from the edge of the roof a good six inches. Mother nature is a fascinating architect.
 
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CLS said:
I have a fascinating ice dam. The icicles are about eight feet long and the dam is a good 18 inches thick and it's cantilevered out from the edge of the roof a good six inches. Mother nature is a fascinating architect.
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May want to take care of that before you have a fascinating waterfall inside your house!
 
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One of our buildings at work had a steam and condensate issue years ago. We had a 40-50 foot tall ice fall that was at least two feet thick. I can't believe it didn't damage the building.
 
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Surprised to hear Buffalo hit it's all-time record low today with -7 at the airport. Coldest it's been since 1896 or something like that. Over here in MI we've been through about a week straight of 10-15 below at night, and last year we got down there a lot too. Figured they'd be similar climates.
 
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Spartanforlife4 said:
Surprised to hear Buffalo hit it's all-time record low today with -7 at the airport. Coldest it's been since 1896 or something like that. Over here in MI we've been through about a week straight of 10-15 below at night, and last year we got down there a lot too. Figured they'd be similar climates.
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I'd guess lake effect. Milder temps, more snow.
 
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