Sudden Snow (by alaric)

When we went to bed last night, it was raining hard. So I was pretty surprised when I got up in the morning to find the world covered in about ten centimetres of snow.

And even more surprised to find that the awning over the back door had fallen down, blocking it so I had to get out via another door to investigate:

The weight of the snow had been too much, causing the bracket on the left to shear off:

This, in turn, pulled the bracket on the right out of the wall:

And the falling awning crushed our little table:

Jean and I managed to undo the surviving bolts and get it off the wall without further destruction. The wall is undamaged at the left bracket:

But the bricks are cracked where the bracket pulled out at the right, and the mortar has plenty of cracking too, so this will need some work:

Also, our outside light is mangled and just hanging on by the cables, and will need replacing: