After The Ice Storm - Cleaning The Camper Roof

We got a bit of everything from this storm.  Snow sleet, thunder and possible hail, and yes a coating of ice.

Although we had worse ice this was a significant storm as many small branches came down and a number of large limbs and trees too.

We lost power twice, the first on for an hour and the second for 4 hours.  

The day after the 2-day storm, I got the ladder out and had to lift and bang the snow/sleet covered ice off the camper.  

I estimate that it must have been a few hundred pounds of excess weight on the camper. My concern was not being to easily get the accumulation off the top of the camper.  I did want to have it come off going down the highway.  There were some accidents in the Boston area from box and trailer trucks that had ice come off the tops of and go through a car’s windshield.

I didn’t count on the blue tarp being stuck (frozen) to the flat camper surfaces, so pails of hot water was in order to peak the tarp off.

In the end it was worth planning and using the tarp.

Brent

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