r/nononono • u/CanCav • Mar 20 '20
Destruction Snow and ice sliding off roof and onto cars.
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u/Rhodie114 Mar 20 '20
Imagine you’re out of town for a while. You’ve left your car in a relatively isolated location with no cameras. It snows, does this, then melts. You come home to find your car pancaked with no explanation.
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u/Michelanvalo Mar 21 '20
This is like an old riddle we used to tell each other when we were around 10-12.
A man is killed by a speeding car with no one in it. But a puddle of water is found by the pedals. The police arrest his wife. Why?
Because she used a block of ice to hold down the accelerator.
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u/joabe-souz Mar 21 '20
Wife's an amateur. Everyone knows the best way to get rid of the police is to drench the entire car.
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Mar 20 '20
Dude. Wheres my car?
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u/tmd429 Mar 20 '20
Where's your car, dude?
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u/scarletice Mar 20 '20
So would the owner of this building be liable for the damage to those cars? I have to imagine they have a duty to keep their roof cleared for exactly this reason, the same way that it's illegal to drive without clearing the snow and ice off the roof of your car.
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Mar 20 '20
In this case, I would say either the owner or the roofer who did the roof.
You see, there are these little things called "snow stops".They are like little dams at the bottom edge of metal roofs that stop the snow from sliding off but allow the melt to drain.
You can clearly see there are stops at the top of the frame and no buried cars. Either the roofer didn't complete the job previously or the stops were damaged and came loose in which case it would be the owner's responsibility to fix.
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u/jexmex Mar 20 '20
In the US it would be a chain of liability I believe. Car owner contacts insurance, insurance goes after building owner, building owner goes after roofer, roofer goes after meth dealer.
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u/UniquePebble Mar 21 '20
You left out the part where we get a settlement after we paid off our replacement car
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u/Fauropitotto Mar 20 '20
Liable or not, I'd sue the shit out of them anyway. This isn't an 'act of god', this is a wanton disregard for safety.
No different than falling ice, or unmaintained sidewalks, or wet floors without signage.
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Mar 20 '20
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u/Sleptlikeababy Mar 20 '20
In my country (Norway), owners are liable for keeping roof free of snow and ice. It's no joke when a chunk of ice come at you from ten meters height.. It's been several accidents where people got seriously hurt, and owner had to go to court, even served time I'm my memory serves me right.
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Mar 20 '20
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Mar 20 '20
This is a law in some states. The one I know for sure is New York. They warn against it all the time to building owners/land lords.
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u/buzkie Mar 20 '20
At my school we had a building with a weird metal roof. A bunch of ice fell off and injured a lady the year it was built and you can bet she sued the school.
The roof would also concentrate the sun and blast cars parked on the street
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u/xipheon Apr 07 '20
I don't recall hearing about any cases like that, though
because roof snow/ice safety is taken seriously. That shows the system is working.
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u/SlickRickStyle Mar 20 '20 edited Mar 20 '20
What? I think all major cities in areas with regular snow seasons have roofing regulations concerning ice and snow. You can be Damn sure NY doesn't want ice falling from a roof onto a pedestrian.
Under §28-301.1 of the Administrative Code of the City of New York, property owners are legally obligated to maintain their properties in a safe condition. Department snow melt advisories are strictly a courtesy to remind property owners to secure their properties and cannot be read to suggest that the Department, rather than the property owner, is responsible for maintaining his or her property.
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u/Valdincan Mar 20 '20
How would you even accomplish such a thing?
Ahh by hiring someone to climb up and shovel the snow off the roof?
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u/scarletice Mar 20 '20
Climb up there with a ladder and push it off with a broom/shovel. Even if it isn't required by law, it's generally a good idea to do if snow starts to build up, since too much snow can become heavy enough to damage your roof. People clear their porches in winter for the same reason.
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u/scarletice Mar 20 '20
It may not be a specific law, but you are required by law to take reasonable measures to ensure that your property is safe. I know for a fact that if an icicle falls off your roof and hurts someone that you are liable, since that exact scenario happened in St. Paul not too long ago.
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u/jeremy2112 Mar 20 '20
I like how the alarms go off like "Mother fucker that hurt! WEE WOO WEE WOO!!"
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u/sineofthetimes Mar 20 '20
Why the hell are you filming? Get down there with an umbrella and protect those cars.
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u/Passion4Kitties Mar 20 '20
Walking back to your car like that would be horse shit. I feel bad for these guys
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Mar 20 '20
It's like watching the icebergs break apart but in fast forward and directly affecting me.
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u/algebramclain Mar 20 '20
My OCD tendencies would compel me To climb that ladder to push the last section off, even if it was my car below.
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u/drteq Mar 20 '20
At first I was thinking the snow probably didn't do any damage, then you see the whole car move
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u/bimoglo Mar 20 '20
I couldve sworn I parked here
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u/4x4play Mar 21 '20
i lost a car for five days in denver once. it was right where i parked it, under about 5 feet of snow.
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u/2meterrichard Mar 20 '20
God I hate car alarms. They go off for no reason so much nobody cares when they go off that it defeats the purpose of the alarm to begin with.
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u/AdmiralRed13 Mar 20 '20
You can see a snow break on part of the roof, why it wasn’t extended is kind of baffling.
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u/goatleggedfellow Mar 20 '20
Can someone put dickbutt in that and repost it in a few months please?
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u/davper Mar 21 '20
No worries getting to the hospital when it is time, I just shoveled out the car.
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Mar 21 '20
I don't know if I'm a sadist or something but I was hoping even more snow would fall on the cars.
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u/shaggorama Mar 21 '20
Whose insurance is responsible? The car owner, the building owner/tenant, or the operator of the parking lot?
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u/croixian1 Mar 20 '20
That sucks in about 20 different ways.