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Originally Posted by Metro-One
Well it is a lot more than one foot, more around 3 feet along the base of the mountains. The Vancouver airport is only 2cm away from breaking its most snow during December record, and seeing how all this snow has fallen in the past week and a half with little chance to melt until now this is an anomaly.
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Yes, this has been an unusual period no doubt. Think of this though... earthquakes are anomalies too. We expect a big one within the next 200 years or so, yet we build for those anomalies because lives are at stake. I've done plenty of seismic bracing and strapping in my plumbing work just for that big one. Heavy snow falls are rare here too, as you've pointed out, but the fact that they can and do happen... I would expect, and hope, that our buildings are built above and beyond the max snow falls. Just the fact there is a chance people won't always be available to clear off roofs... we can't rely on that as a means to keep people safe.