"Gntry" wrote in message
news:PuX6f.1303$Db7.83@trndny05...
Here in NY, all I do is cover it w/ a piece of wood and a brick to
hold it down.

That's what I do in GA with 1 addition. I put a 2X under the edge next
to the house so the piece of ply slopes so everything runs/slides off.

Tom J