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Help! Snow-Zilla has me trapped in my North Country home

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Enough is enough. It has been snowing in the North Country since October , and I haven't seen my front lawn since then. In our location - only a few minutes from the Maine border and half-an-hour to the Canadian border, it snows up here every day . My daughter, Lisa , often has nightmares about being stalked by a Godzilla-like monster . Well so am I - but it's real. The home my wife and I inhabit is slowly being enveloped by a white monster that never stops growing . Guests coming to our house are warned to book it inside before part of that white behemoth drops on their heads . That white slab overhanging our roof is really more of a glacier made up of ice and snow. When it lets loose and drops off our metal roof, the sound inside our home is deafening. That glacier now blots out two-thirds of my window as a write this. My area is beautiful year-round, but I prefer warmer weather and scenes like the one featured on a postage stamp - showing the Androscoggin River and th