#snow load

[stampederealty]

MOA Guidance Regarding Potential Roof Collapse

Issued March 7, 2023

·       In the last few weeks Anchorage as experienced 3 (known) partial roof collapses involving the failure of wooden trusses having metal gang nail plates.

·       We do not know the exact mechanisms that initiated the failures.

·       We do know the roof trusses failed, resulting in catastrophic roof collapse.

·       The weight of snow being supported was less than the design value of 40 pounds per square foot for the two most recent failures.

·       The collapses have occurred in commercial construction built between the mid-1970s and mid-1980s.

·       The roof trusses were constructed from wood with metal gang nail plates.

o   Top chord bearing parallel cord trusses demand extra attention; however, a common bottom chord bearing pitched-roof type of truss has also failed too.

·       If you own a building falling within these parameters, we ask that you remove the snow/ice from the roof as soon as possible.

·       We ask that snow removal contractors prioritize these types of buildings.

·       Further guidance will be provided as we better understand the mechanisms causing these failures.

[rabbitinthemeadow]

Oh dreadful, fallow heart // Part 6

January 28th, 2023

[housecow]

since i am back i can tell y’all i visited alaska… lemme just say. summers there feel SO much better, but i am no longer desensitized to the heat here 😭😭😭

[jkpng]

happy pride month (25/30)

[dialoogid]

Natural Snow Buildings - Two Sides of a Horse (2001)

[asexualsimonsnow]

A Shortened List of Simon Snow's Autistic Traits

because a full length list would be too long of a post.

1. His love of magic could easily be interpreted as a special interest

“No ones loves magic like I do,” (Carry On, page 9).

2. He is shown to have poor spatial awareness

“That’s when we hear the first scream. I stand up, knocking the table over and breaking the teapot more conclusively,” (Carry On, page 235).

“...before she starts treating me like a Great Dane who can’t help knocking things over with its tail… You’d have to be incorporeal not to knock anything over,” (Carry On, page 267).

3. He is always interpreting things literally

“‘Let hardship sharpen your blade, Simon.’ I thought he meant my actual blade… Eventually I figured out that he meant me,” (Carry On, page 9).

It even affects his magic: “And sometimes when [Simon] casts metaphors, they go viciously literal,” (Carry On, page 119).

4. He has his whole thing with lists to help him process things

“I keep a list—of all the things I miss most—and I’m not allowed to touch it in my head until I’m about an hour from Watford. Then I run through the list one by one. It’s sort of like easing yourself into cold water. But the opposite of that I suppose—easing yourself into something really good, so the shock of it doesn’t overwhelm you. / I started making my list, my good things list, when I was 11, and I should probably cross a few things off, but that’s harder than you’d think,” (Carry On, page 11).

^ Not only is the list thing autistic, struggling to take things off because he's grown used to the list as it is is autistic.

5. He has difficulty with verbal communication

“Half of Snow’s sentences are shrugs,” (Carry On, page 354).

“I’ve never been good with words,” (Carry On, page 107). They mention this like a million times.

This is the bit that really convinces me: "I don’t remember when I learned to talk, but I know they tried to send me to specialists… I used to see a counselor and a speech therapist. ‘Use your words, Simon.’ I got so bloody sick of hearing that. It was so much easier to just take what I wanted instead of asking for it. Or thump whoever was hurting me, even if they thumped me right back," (Carry On, page 108).

“Simon seemed conscious, but wasn’t saying anything. And he wouldn’t make eye contact,” (Carry On, page 427). The eye contact thing in here is also pretty autistic.

6. He does a lot of stimming

“Simon groans and rakes at his hair,” (Carry On, page 362). He messes with his hair a lot.

“Simon was pacing around my bedroom, swinging his blade,” (Carry On, page 454).

“I intentionally slam my shoulder into the wall next to the door. (People who tell you that slamming and bashing into things won’t make you feel better haven’t slammed or bashed enough),” (Carry On, page 274). This one especially stands out to me.

Again, just a short list. There are plenty more quotes for these traits, and other autistic traits that Simon has.

[maiios]

I’d love to see some of the characters dressed up for winter and snow and stuff.

<3 btw I love your stuff

"What peculiar weather!"

[skcirthinq]

Part six of the @tmnt-event-blog winter bingo Snow Day series!

So, this is the last one in this series, but not the last one for this card. I've got the rest done, but I'm gonna jump around between the other cards for another series.

Right as the crew was getting ready to go home, it started snowing. I dunno if this is the first time Casey Jr. has seen snowfall, but I imagine he'd be pretty enchanted by it regardless.

[fi2ishdobehere]

i kinda feel bad.

im working on the fic for my au, i kinda abandoned that comic lol--

im still going to try and remake it though, when the fic is finished.

[radical69rose]

It’s not a want it’s a need

[nostalgiahime]

Hannah & Armin Flash Preloader (Neopets)

[landwriter]

a ponderosa pine through binoculars

[nohound]

4 my show people when it comes to rickon, he survived. thats it. or he just wasnt there, because again i'm book canon mostly w/ some show elements, and he's still on skagos in the books w/ davos coming to get him...... so like, he's fine is my point.

[snowflop]

Starting to think computers are actually the work of a dark and twisted demonic force.

[ph-cutie]

[dialoogid]

Natural Snow Buildings - The Winter Ray (2004)