How far do you have to walk in what you find “refreshing” to get any where?
Oh, I realise I mistook your intent. Never mind.
They’re not flat, but the pitch isn’t as steep as most houses. Not too bad to walk around on, but what pitch there is helps get the snow moving. I did some calculations, and I won’t need to get the snow off unless we get another foot or so. There’s more snow predicted overnight, so that might only mean I have another day before it’s enough snow.
Best wishes,
Jerry
We have snow rakes for roofs. I’m sure you must have them at your hardware stores in the US: a light, wide plastic shovel/scoop with aluminum poles that connect together for reaching way up and pulling the snow down.
Its not just the weight of the snow on the roof that is a concern, but also the snow that builds up along the eves, partially melts, and then refreezes in the evestroughs to create an ice dam. This will slowly melt and refreeze over and over, and slowly freeze up under your shingles and then melt inside the roof, causing all sorts of nasitness.
Snow on the roof is purty, but its a bad thing.
djm
We have snow rakes, too, but getting on the roof, using the snow shovel to separate a block about three feet square and setting it sliding down gets a cubic yard of snow to the ground very fast and without much effort. Annnnd, repeat, being careful not to step off the end of the house when you finish each row. It’s the easiest way.
And I gotta say, there’s a primal feeling of satisfaction with each WHOOMP!
These mobile homes aren’t heated, btw, so ice dams aren’t an issue.
Best wishes,
Jerry
Might you NOT want to wait until it reaches critical mass?
These are ok depending on what your roof is surfaced with. I’ve had neighbors trash their roofs with them.
Here in the Chicago area a lot of people get specially designed electric cables to zig zag on their eves to melt the ice dams before they get bad.
I put one in the gutter downspout on the sunless north side of my building. I turn the electricity on to it when needed. Before I did that I’d have a huge iced waterfall on the northern side of my building every winter when the gutter downspout froze over.
I’m taking that into account.
Bear in mind, I don’t want to take the snow off too soon because then the next snow will sit there on the roof. This is an exercise I prefer to only do once per winter, if at all.
Best wishes,
Jerry
It’s about here 14F, and the few homeless we have are just barely making it. I talked to one man and tried to get him into some place warm (even a hospital), but he wouldn’t do it. I can only imagine how people with nowhere to go are faring in colder areas. I feel very lucky to have a warm room. The cold is brutal.
Just got back from work and, while the official weather guy on the car radio said it got above zero this afternoon, my thermometer (in the far north suburbs of Minneapolis) says its still 4 below zero.
This was all somehow more fun when I was younger. Now, its just a frozen pain in the butt. Now I know why old people go to warm climates. On the other hand, I was in Phoenix in July where it was 109-110 day after day.
Bitch, bitch, bitch. There, now I feel better.
It has been sunny all day and only the slightest of breeze.
You are just looking at the negative side of things.
It’s a “cold for Florida” 66 degrees right now. But I’m still crazy enough to be returning to New Hampshire very soon. 
-10, here I come!
I just checked and right now it’s 17 degrees F. With a wind chill of 9 so at least the wind has laid. All I know is I just about froze my “butt” off today driving with the window down.
My outside dogs have headed to the barn or the dairy(underground so it’s warmer)- the inside dogs don’t want out- with the exception of the Skye- I’ve never seen them act cold, even when they have to plow through the snow because it’s deeper than they are tall.
Maybe because Prince did the halftime show in pouring rain.
Where’s all the “It was so cold…” jokes?
It was so cold, my lawyer had his hands in his own pockets!
…I had to chip a dog off of a fire hydrant.
Or “It’s colder than…” cliche phrases.
…a w|tches t|t in a brass bra.
(one of my dad’s phrases)
Witch isn’t an offensive word. We have witches on C&F. And this is a tit:
I don’t know why one of them would be in a brass bra. 
I wasn’t trying to be offensive.
It was a country boy colloquialism - my dad was famous for them.
I just don’t know what will be auto bleeped.