RM> Wow.. 10 feet.. I get a little nervous here when I get 3 or 4 feet
RM> of snow on the roof. I usually don't get that much on the house
RM> since it's heated but the out buildings can get that much..

KW>Oh, it was creaking. Very nerve-wracking. That spring, the snow came off
  >the roof. piled up on the cabin on the high side of the hill and knocked
  >it off plumb by a couple of degrees. Thankfully, it popped back,
  >insurance paid for a metal roof, and we put in a cripple wall and
  >bracing to keep it straight.

Not the best situation..  My place here is on cement block pillars,
some as high as 40 inches or so, and it's more or less just the
weight of the building anchoring it to the pillars.

The worst storm I recall while I was here was in November
(Gordon Lightfoot was right when he sang about The Gales of November)
and that night the wind got up to just over 100 mph (165 kph) and I
was half expecting the place to lift off of the pillars and end up
elsewhere!..   (Auntie M! Auntie M!!)

But it stayed put, and even my quite high TV Tower with a head on
it about 18 feet long survived it.

Maybe I shouldn't have been so shocked since the place has been
standing for something like 90 years.

Part of what helped might have been that my walls are log, not
normal construction. It's a little different than the usual Log
Cabins are. Round logs are cut lengthwise and the pieces offset
and then nailed back together (vertically) overlapping half way
and then the next half log is attached, if you follow that...
Inside and out it appears to be round logs standing side by side.

In any case what you end up with are walls that are solid wood
about 6 inches thick, so it's fairly heavy..  and has lots of
cracks for the cold air to leak through...   B)

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