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Weather Discussion => International => Topic started by: Mark on December 23, 2019, 09:14:27 AM

Title: Can you imagine 9 meters of snow on your roof? Iceland
Post by: Mark on December 23, 2019, 09:14:27 AM

Icelanders entering and exiting their houses by crawling through windows on upper floors and bracing their roofs to handle the snow load.


Iceland snow-16 Dec 2019
“Th­ere has never been snow even similar like this,” says Val­geir Þor­valds­son. “When we were build­ing these houses, you did not think that you would have to sho­vel these roofs like this. I think the snow is nine meters (more than 29 feet!) deep.”

https://www.mbl.is/frettir/innlent/2019/12/16/komust_inn_um_glugga_a_2_haed/

Title: Re: Can you imagine 9 meters of snow on your roof? Iceland
Post by: PaulMy on December 24, 2019, 03:29:17 AM

Wow wow...
Seems like the Icelandic Emigration Center is appropriately named ;)

https://electroverse.net/icelands-emigration-center-disappears-under-snow/