Ice cicles

I thought my house was falling down around me for a moment a few minutes ago. I realized my dad was removing all the ice cicles hanging from the roof.

A couple of winters ago we had a couple of big snow falls a few days apart. My windows started leaking because my roof doesn't have an over hang, putting the ice cicles closer to the side of the house. So now we have to get rid of the ice cicles every time it snows.