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What is this thing?

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What are these things on the roof? [solved] (media.kbin.earth)
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[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 51 points 1 week ago

They hold back snow and ice...a bit. When it does start to slide it breaks up the flow so you get 200 lbs of crap in bite size chunks instead of one giant bone crushing block.