Snow, Snow, and more Snow!

I don't know how much snow we've actually got. I know that there are plenty of snow drifts 3' or more here.
We're all pretty tired of snow around here. Snow means a lot of extra work for us, and snow days gobble up valuable time that is needed for other projects and leaves us physically worn out.
We love our new greenhouse and red raspberry high tunnel except for times of heavy snow or icy spells. The structures are made of heavy gauge metal with a heavy mil plastic covering. Because of our high winds we made sure to add even further reinforcement to the structures when we constructed them. The fear that every greenhouse grower has is that the house just won't be able to handle the weight of even several inches of heavy snow or ice. After all our hard work putting the house up and outfitting it with growing benches and such I would hate to see a crumpled mess of twisted metal and plastic.
Snow can be removed from the top of the houses manually by dragging it off from outside or bopping it off from inside (I made a special tool for this) or in times of greater snow accumulations we heat the inside of the structures with portable propane heaters and a big diesel torpedo heater which is terribly stinky but kicks out a lot of heat quickly! Of course all of this takes monitoring to make sure all is working well. I set my alarm for every 3 hours to make my way out through 2 to 4' snow drifts to check to make certain everything was working and to possibly change propane tanks. Much to my horror the big torpedo went out sometime between 1 and 3 in the morning. The snow was coming down heavily then and wasn't scheduled to stop for another 16 hours. I knew I would never be able tot keep up without a heater. Luckily we had a kerosene heater in the barn and I had filled some kerosene fuel tanks a few weeks before. I'm also thankful to have listened to that little voice in my head that motivated me to put a kid's snow saucer in the barn just before the snow started. I realize that though typically I don't view it as being much of a walk between the barn and the greenhouse, that night, with the side door snowed in it would be a difficult walk with a very awkward large kerosene heater. I was absolutely thrilled to see the bright blue snow saucer that I had recently moved to the barn. It would prove to be just perfect in transporting the heater through the enormous drifts between the barn and the greenhouse.
It snowed so much that it mounded up around the long sides of the houses so much that there was nowhere left for it to go. Shovel, shovel, and more shoveling to keep the side walls from breaking under too much pressure.
And then there is always now plowing to break up the snow shoveling monotony. These long storms really suck. Next year we're investing in a snow blower!