Hanging danger! I live in the Saint-Petersburg, Russia. It is considered as enough developed city with big culture and it is undoubtedly true. But something of the culture legacy features leads to unimpressive, bad consequence.

From one hand-side there are only historical building in the city center, as in the other parts of city but much many, which were built in the 19th or even 18th century (people from Central or South Europe should laugh of that fact). From other hand-side the city located in the North of Russia, approximately at the same latitude as Stockholm or Helsinki. And the winter may come suddenly.

The most part of buildings have roof edges with projections (maybe it could be called eaves). Also downpipes are join with roof edges. When the winter comes and frost occurs we can observe big and even huge icicles that hang on the top of downpipe or on the joint of downpipe and roof edge or carnice. Such icicles conceal a danger which might reveal with thaw. Keeping in mind the fact that now we can see a trand of weather frustrations as temperature can changes around zero, icicles could plummet down due to their really heavy weight.

Having walked in the city center, I noticed that such icicles are not eliminated by corresponding city services. At least not all icicles, not everywhere. The weather is getting warm and soon might be an accidents, by the way they are occur every year.

As far as I know, the same situation presented in other parts of our country. It is not necessary in the north of country. The determinative factor is the temperature frustration around zero with huge volume of precipitation.

I'd like to know how is it going in other countries with similar climate conditions. And what about accident frequency or frequency of icicles elimination actions (if you like the latter more). Please share if you've read this by that point. And correct if you have time :)

Hope it is an interesting topic as for people who live in the south regions and as for them who live in the north.

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