only in Canada you say?

[the_siobhan]

City Facing A Shovel Shortage

This is the headline that had me giggling all the way to work this morning.

Comments

[dark-phoenix54.livejournal.com]

Not just Canada. It happened here last month! People were even hording shovels and selling them at inflated prices. They were also charging $65 per hour for shoveling roofs, something that's usually a very low paid job done by people who don't know how to do anything else.

Ah, human nature at it's best.

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Shoveling roofs. You have to shovel your roof?

Mind you now that you mention it, if we hadn't gotten the support beam in this year, it probably would have been a really really good idea to have shoveled ours.

[ash-pixie.livejournal.com]

I've had to shovel my grandparent's roof up in Elk Lake--that's about three hours north of North Bay. Nice thing is that it's a dry cold up there, so you can do it in a t-shirt and not get frostbite. At Easter one year, the snow was up past my shoulders (and I was the height I am now)on the ground. On the roof it was a few inches shorter due to melt from the house heat coming out...we had to shovel it down to no more then 6 inches on the roof 'cause the roof was creeking.

[dark-phoenix54.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah. A number of buildings collapsed because the weight on the roofs got too much for them. It happens around here, especially when you get about 2 feet of snow on them and then it rains and makes it even heavier... Most roofs around here don't have a steep enough pitch for the damn stuff to slide off, even when they're metal.