There's a new weather-related concern Tuesday. Businesses and homes are covered with snow, and if that load is too heavy to bear, a collapse is a very real possibility.
In Issaquah, 14-year-old Natalie Rapier and her family are pretty familiar with snow -- but not the kind that falls in inches.
“We used to get like 3 feet in Indiana,” she told us.
The Rapiers are from the Midwest, where the amount of snowfall practically requires homeowners have sloped roofs, so a few inches on the Rapiers’ flat roof didn’t seem all that concerning.
“Never crossed my mind,” Natalie admitted.
But Eastside fire Captain Steve Westlake says people should be looking up; he says forecast rain falling on top of this load of snow could be dangerous.