+1 from here as well. That is a lot of snow. But why so little on the roofs of the buildings? Poor insulation?
Good eye, Lloyd. Thant was indeed quite surprising even for us.
Several reasons: poor insulation is one, but you can see on the first image that the barn roof is the same, though the building is barely heated. Another one is that construction in this area seemingly took into account a long history of snow storms, so the roofs have a much sharper angle than what is apparent on these photos. And an elderly mentioned something about buildings orientation and disposition creating air currents in the village. Can't be sure about that, though.
Another natural cause would be that it was really snow storms with a lot of whirling winds. Anyway...
Rayyan, not our house on the photo, that one's up the hill so the contrast of snow levels was more dramatic for picture/documentation sake. We got stuck though for almost a whole week. One day, after shoveling for four
hours, i could get the car on the "road" (i think). On the right the hill proved impossible to climb (got "passed" by a quite surprised, large walking hound when the car started to climb down backwards), so i tried the narrow winding street on the left (flatter). It was ok for the better part of a hundred yards or so -which took several minutes yet, hit a small curve then... a 2-meter high snowdrift :bugeyes: blocking the whole street. Yeah, non-metric system measuring friends, that's just around 80".
So, we waited. Patiently. Sharing canned food and leftovers with the neighbours. A Christmas to remember