maineman152 (Lou)
2015_0228Falling-Ice0005
West Pond, Parsonsfield, Maine.
Today the large piece of ice on our roof that has been threatening to fall at any moment finally lost it's fight with gravity, with a loud crack ,rumble and thud it hit the ground shaking the house in the process, it also tore the telephone and internet cable lines off the house but did not break them, so service was not interrupted, it also took our outside light off the house which I'll be replacing tomorrow.
I've estimated by it's size this piece of ice weighs around 200 plus pounds, nothing that you would want to be under when it falls.
I split it in half with a 9 pound mall so I could move it out of the path around the front of the house, I'll have to break the half's up some more tomorrow so I can better handle them.
Thankfully neither we our our dogs where out and near where this monster piece of ice fell, hopefully there will be no more ice build up of this magnitude in what's left of this long, cold winter.
2015_0228Falling-Ice0005
West Pond, Parsonsfield, Maine.
Today the large piece of ice on our roof that has been threatening to fall at any moment finally lost it's fight with gravity, with a loud crack ,rumble and thud it hit the ground shaking the house in the process, it also tore the telephone and internet cable lines off the house but did not break them, so service was not interrupted, it also took our outside light off the house which I'll be replacing tomorrow.
I've estimated by it's size this piece of ice weighs around 200 plus pounds, nothing that you would want to be under when it falls.
I split it in half with a 9 pound mall so I could move it out of the path around the front of the house, I'll have to break the half's up some more tomorrow so I can better handle them.
Thankfully neither we our our dogs where out and near where this monster piece of ice fell, hopefully there will be no more ice build up of this magnitude in what's left of this long, cold winter.