 Poster: A snowHead
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Two of our visitors were having a post-ski beer in the local piste side resto this evening - watching the proprietor up a ladder doing something with a sign on the roof. One of them said "That looks precarious - should I go and hold the ladder for him?" The other said "No, that lot's going to slide in a minute, let's move back a bit".
And it did - with a tremendous woomf - the whole roof slid, knocked him off his ladder and buried him. Fortunately they, and my OH who was just on his way back up from the poubelles, were on hand and dug him out - it took some time, the snow over his legs was a metre and a half deep though his head was just about sticking out the edge, fortunately.
I suppose they might get a free beer tomorrow (one got knocked over and the other got left).
Then ensued a bit of a fracas because the resto proprietor has just bought the business, but "pas les murs" (not sure exactly what that entails in terms of responsibility for keeping the roof clear of snow, day to day) and the guy who built and owns the building (and previously tried to run the restaurant but wasn't very good at it), and who had been up on the roof yesterday trying to shift some of the snow, was not far away. Scarcely freed from the snow, the proprietor dashed off to find him and give him a piece of his mind.
At which point our guys left - before it got violent. It doesn't surprise me that it happened - the roofs round here have huge amounts of snow on, and although they've started to clear them, some of the taller buildings (like ours, and other 3 or 4 storey apartment blocks) just have snow hanging over the edge.
Be careful out there, folks. It's not uncommon for people to be killed by snow falling from roofs. Watch where you're standing.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Crikey.
Was it a bit like this?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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paulio, it says the image can't be displayed and clicking on the link doesn't do much. They got a couple of replacement beers when they went back to take a photo later. I'm thinking that around half hour of digging snow, some of it with bare hands, might be worth a free meal. 
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pam w, I remember this happening to a restaurant on the first BB, as El Hen walked out the door (unrelated) and it all came down just in front of her nose. I was sitting on the bench outside and it all came down in front of me too - as you say, with an almighty woomf - scared me to death until I realised what it was.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Schuss in Boots The chaps who had dug out the proprietor of the restaurant were walking back up to the apartment they're staying in and passed a little child playing digging in the snow just under one big overhang. They just couldn't bear to leave him there, after what they'd just seen, and tried to explain the problem and suggest he moved away. They speak practically no French and probably frightened the child to death, but at least he ran home to tell his mummy about the nasty men.
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Many years ago in Wengen there was a chap clearing off many of the hotel roofs after we had over 5ft of snow, all went well until he was on a roof over 6 stories up, the hotel owner had just told him he really ought to be roped on up there when the snow shifted, 60 ft fall onto solid concrete  Fortunately the surrounding snow partially cushioned his fall and he survived, but I believe he suffered either broken hips or broken thigh bones
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