Melting Snow

Wow !! Today the snow began melting in earnest. The early snow we had was very heavy and wet. Thousands of homes were without power for various lengths of time. As of Friday, only about 300 homes were still without power. Because of the elevation of Waterville, we were getting snow when others were getting rain. All this happened on Tuesday night and all day Wednesday. Our generator here kicked in a couple of times as they had to cut power to fix some lines. In general, the village of Waterville itself had continuous power.

So..... We have some minor flooding in the basement storage areas as the melting snow from the new roofing drains overpower the center courtyard area. No resident areas are affected and we are able to direct the melting water directly into a storm drain using temporary drain tubes. The long term fix will have to have more permanent drains installed to route the new drainage load from the roof.