I would like advice also, We get no rain where I am just lots of snow. we can have snow December through to April and sometimes later. I want to collect the snow as snow, not when it melt for only a few weeks of the year and causes flooding. I am very rural and don't have many resources. Our roofs are flat and therefore are cleared as soon as it snows. The snow is normally piled up at the side and then in late spring it starts to melt. Any ideas on how to store it and make use of it as we suffer sever drought in the summer months. We can go down to -35 Celsius so nothing melts during the winter time