Emergency crews in Nakusp were called out Wednesday to another collapsed roof caused by heavy snow- the third in a week and a half.
This time, the roof covering a wraparound, second-story deck of a house on Shakespeare Road collapsed, said Nakusp Fire Chief Terry Warren.
No one was injured in the collapse, though a truck parked next to the house was damaged. Electricity was cut off to a portion of the house, but the residents are still able to occupy the building, said Warren.
鈥淭he heavy snow seems to be really affecting big, long open runs of roof,鈥� said Warren. 鈥淲e also find that people are losing their gutters, their eavestroughs, to the weight of the snow.鈥�
On Monday, the snow caused the roof of a home in Nakusp to collapse, completely destroying a garage and damaging the main part of the home. No one was injured in that incident.
The roof of a mobile failed on Feb. 25, trapping a resident inside the building. The occupant was taken to hospital with unspecified injuries.
Warren says he鈥檚 heard reports of another building on Shakespeare Road, a Quonset hut, being damaged by snow earlier this year.
The fire chief is urging people to check the snow loads on their roofs, and recommends a for calculating snow loads.
鈥淲e want people to be careful, we don鈥檛 want them falling off their roofs,鈥� he says.
Some areas around Nakusp have seen up to 200 inches (500 cm) of snow this year.
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