Can you imagine 9 meters of snow on your roof?

Icelanders entering and exiting their houses by crawling through windows on upper floors and bracing their roofs to handle the snow load.

Iceland snow-16 Dec 2019

“Th­ere has never been snow even similar like this,” says Val­geir Þor­valds­son. “When we were build­ing these houses, you did not think that you would have to sho­vel these roofs like this. I think the snow is nine meters (more than 29 feet!) deep.”

https://www.mbl.is/frettir/innlent/2019/12/16/komust_inn_um_glugga_a_2_haed/

Thanks to David Hartley for this link

“It’s in Icelandic, with a couple of images that bring home the scale of the snowfall,” says David.

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December 21, 2019 at 11:40AM

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