Electric doors.
If you can figure a way to get up there and shovel without falling off or through the roof (which is already bending under the stress), you can be my guest. We haven't been able to do so.
Actually, that idea occurred to us, and he has a torpedo heater. His partner is going out to the airport tomorrow to try it. Only problems are what happens when two feet of snow and ice go sliding off the roof, and what plastic deformation has already occurred to the doors.
We had problems with that once on our hangar which is pretty large and was pretty new at the time. The load of snow came off the roof and put a good sized buckle in one of the walls. I didn't think it would do that. I guess others didn't either.
I thought this was going in the direction of the Dilbert cartoon in which the airline gate agent tells the passenger that his flight is delayed due to weather. When asked what kind of weather, the agent replies, "Our planes can't handle direct sunlight."
Louisa VA (KLKU). And to answer sanforce, they just ain't never seen this much snow before.
