How Low Can It Go

IF I were a betting woman, and that IF is monstrously fanciful since Mike has ruined me to ever placing any type of wager over any fact that I am POSITIVE is correct. Time after time after time, Mike has won over some heavily contested truths, and once a bet is placed I would lose over and over and over. EXCEPT for the real important issues, even though I no longer wager on anything, I am positive I am still right about the real important stuff like how many minutes it takes for the laundry to dry, or when the strawberries will be ripe, or if the Gator will be able to make one more trip across the river for feeding before it runs out of fuel. You get the idea.

I was ready to place a bet last evening while doing the chores across the river. The couple of feet of snow that had accumulated and melted down to about six inches was still loading down the north side of the barn. The freezing temperatures over the last week along with a couple of spurts of getting just over the freezing point had the sheet of snow slowly edging off the side of the roof only to freeze back up quickly. The overhang is more than a foot long and nearing two feet at this point. I thought the sheet of roof snow could make it all night thus lengthening the overhang or breaking off leaving the rest of the snow pack to slide off later. Mike said it would all be off the roof by morning.

IF I were to bet, I would say the barn would not yet slough off the heavy coating that is covering the whole roof and would expect the two feet overhang would have fallen off. Just to prove myself either correct or incorrect, I will take a quick jaunt over the bridge at first light to see if I could have been a winner of the wager.

12 hour update at first light—Now we are well into to the weather transition the rain had been pretty constant (by pretty constant I mean 2.33 inches of the very cold rain fell like a velocity of a garden hose all night) even though the overnight temps only reached a high of 33 degrees. Mike would have won this bet again, the roof has been cleared of all snow. IF I were a wagering sort, I would bet that it slid off with a powerful noise in one swift swoosh as the accumulations are prone to do. But that is another bet that I am not going to make.