Every year, the season brings unexpected conditions and challenges that risk the stability and safety of building structures and more importantly their occupants. Find out how to deal with acute winter weather events for residential and commercial properties.

A freezing rain event is a winter weather storm caused by significant accumulations of freezing rain on exposed surfaces – buildings, houses, cars, trees, roadways, etc. Freezing rain occurs when precipitation falling as snow encounters a layer of warm air, melts, then continues falling as rain through a thin layer of freezing air before coming in contact with the ground, structures, and other objects and freezing on contact, creating a “glaze” of ice on all surfaces. Freezing rain resulting in ice accumulation will impact travel, result in damage to structures and trees, and can cause power failure. Just 10 millimeters of ice can burden power lines and tree limbs with hundreds of pounds of added weight, making roadblocks and power outages a common by-product of winter ice events.

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