This may make you cabin builders happy you built a cabin. d* Although I should point out that this one didn't have a snow load kit that may have prevented this. Unfortunately this was my yurt...
http://solarburrito.wordpress.com/2010/02/23/collapsed-yurt-pictures/ (http://solarburrito.wordpress.com/2010/02/23/collapsed-yurt-pictures/)
Interesting. Harry has one but it is a house type and I am sure it will take any load we can conjure up for it.
This is 3 feet of snow then a heavy downpour of rain on top of the snow at 1650' near Lake Cushman and Hoodsport, WA.
The local Safeway in Shelton also had a roof collapse!
That may have reached around 180 lbs per square foot - real rough guess - depends.
Very sorry for that.
I've got my fingers crossed that my cabin also does not collapse. We've had record snows and in the last 7 days had another 35 inches of snow. This is definitely an acid test year for my new cabin.
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Total loss? Yurt like that costs upwards of 5 grand, doesn't it?
Bummer.
Ya total loss, we pretty much threw most of it away. We'll actually it was the other 2 property co-owners that did, I wanted to fix it. But yes it would probably be $6000 to replace a 16' yurt, not counting the platform which was fine.
I think we wanted a cabin anyway deep down. The plan was to move the yurt but it didn't happen.
Rainier Raven Yurt?
Its amazing how much the "snow" kits add to the structural load ratings on yurts. Mrs Dirty and I are still considering a Rainier 30' Eagle to add to the property. Glad you werent in the yurt when it went "ka-thump"!