This is just a small portion of the icicles hanging off of my house! I have never in my life seen icicles like this and I used to live in the Northeast United States! Some of these icicles are over 5 feet tall! Amazing!
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Houses in Alb. probably aren’t built to hold in the heat like those up north. Lots of icycles means heat loss (it makes the snow on the roof melt) that’s why some houses here have huge icycles and others don’t. (Right now, we don’t have any icycles because we don’t have any snow.)
As a little kid I remember breaking icicles like this off our house and then sucking on them! Now I look at them on houses and think “ice dams and water damage…yikes”
Your snow photos are wonderful!
This could have been the side of my house… the west side as the east side all melted. They were incredibly long! I stood out on my patio the other day and the entire city sounded like a cacophony of drips. All day we’d drip and then freeze up at night only start the process all over again by noon the next day.
This really was an incredible storm.
Great photo!
🙂
Keropok Man
2007-01-03 01:15It actually looks so nice! you have a beautiful home too!
We would never ever get that in the tropics here!
~tanty~
2007-01-03 04:16Wow, amazing! Agree with Keropok – your house is beautiful!
Martha
2007-01-03 07:52Houses in Alb. probably aren’t built to hold in the heat like those up north. Lots of icycles means heat loss (it makes the snow on the roof melt) that’s why some houses here have huge icycles and others don’t. (Right now, we don’t have any icycles because we don’t have any snow.)
Martha
2007-01-03 07:53I love the pic, btw.
sophieandersen
2007-01-03 07:56As a little kid I remember breaking icicles like this off our house and then sucking on them! Now I look at them on houses and think “ice dams and water damage…yikes”
Your snow photos are wonderful!
Edwin
2007-01-03 09:02WOW! A beautiful home and such wonderful window dressings. The icicles are fantastic!
Kate
2007-01-03 18:51The Southwest is full of surprises. The brick on your house is warm and inviting!
Natalie
2007-01-07 09:43This could have been the side of my house… the west side as the east side all melted. They were incredibly long! I stood out on my patio the other day and the entire city sounded like a cacophony of drips. All day we’d drip and then freeze up at night only start the process all over again by noon the next day.
This really was an incredible storm.
Great photo!
🙂