If you have an overhead phone line and you are in one of the areas
with excess snow, might want to just take a peek at it. Mine had
got to about 5" diameter. Same thing happened a couple weeks ago, and
someone else's line pulled the fixing bracket out of their wall,
bringing their line down across my garden. (Still not repaired.)

A light tap with a plastic pole from the bedroom window and most of
the snow fell off, and the shock caused it to fall off someone else's
line from the pole too. Make sure you aren't doing this to a mains
supply, and use a plastic pole just in case you're wrong!

No liability accepted if you break your line, etc...

--
Andrew Gabriel
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Andrew Gabriel
wibbled on Wednesday 06 January 2010 13:51

If you have an overhead phone line and you are in one of the areas
with excess snow, might want to just take a peek at it. Mine had
got to about 5" diameter. Same thing happened a couple weeks ago, and
someone else's line pulled the fixing bracket out of their wall,
bringing their line down across my garden. (Still not repaired.)

A light tap with a plastic pole from the bedroom window and most of
the snow fell off, and the shock caused it to fall off someone else's
line from the pole too. Make sure you aren't doing this to a mains
supply, and use a plastic pole just in case you're wrong!

No liability accepted if you break your line, etc...


You should train your local sparrows to do the can-can

--
Tim Watts

You know you need more insulation when the snow blanket on the roof makes
the house 3 degrees warmer...

"Andrew Gabriel" wrote in message
...
If you have an overhead phone line and you are in one of the areas
with excess snow, might want to just take a peek at it. Mine had
got to about 5" diameter. Same thing happened a couple weeks ago, and
someone else's line pulled the fixing bracket out of their wall,
bringing their line down across my garden. (Still not repaired.)

A light tap with a plastic pole from the bedroom window and most of
the snow fell off, and the shock caused it to fall off someone else's
line from the pole too. Make sure you aren't doing this to a mains
supply, and use a plastic pole just in case you're wrong!

No liability accepted if you break your line, etc...

--
Andrew Gabriel
[email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup]

If the line were to break, call BT & be prepared to say "not me, guv".
Regards Mike.

"Mike GW8IJT" wrote in message ...
"Andrew Gabriel" wrote in message ...
If you have an overhead phone line and you are in one of the areas
with excess snow, might want to just take a peek at it. Mine had
got to about 5" diameter. Same thing happened a couple weeks ago, and
someone else's line pulled the fixing bracket out of their wall,
bringing their line down across my garden. (Still not repaired.)

A light tap with a plastic pole from the bedroom window and most of
the snow fell off, and the shock caused it to fall off someone else's
line from the pole too. Make sure you aren't doing this to a mains
supply, and use a plastic pole just in case you're wrong!

No liability accepted if you break your line, etc...

--
Andrew Gabriel
[email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup]

If the line were to break, call BT & be prepared to say "not me, guv".
Regards Mike.

My SiL line has come down in this way, now draping 5 ft above neighbours garden.
Also the coax cables going to my neighbours distribution amp at the base of
his aerial mast are now suspended in mid-air instead of lying on the roof-tiles.
As the snow melted it carried the cables with it.

--
Graham.

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