We had a record snowfall in 2011 in my town (North Haven, CT). We got 40 inches in one storm. And we had back-to-back storms that week, so we had over 6 feet of snow in some spots of the town. Several people had massive damage to their homes from the weight of the snow, which compacted and iced over when the sun hit it and it refroze that night, and caused ice dams on the gutters. The people across the street from our house lost their gutters completely and we lost a tree in our front yard. We had damage to our walls from the melting snow. But our roof guy checked out the attic and said that our home - which was built in 1958, had a particular bracing structure that was virtually indestructible, and it held up perfectly. So we had damage to the living room ceiling and water got into the attic but the roof and frame and beams of the house were fine.
Getting out of the house was a nightmare. We were one of the fortunate people who already got our roof rake before the storm began, but it took us three days, hours and hours every day, to clean the roof and shovel out way to the detached garage, so that we could reach our snowblower and plow our way to our cars, so we could clean our cars off. Not that there was anywhere to go - our street wasn't plowed for two days and the smaller side-roads that lead to the main state road didn't get done for a week.
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