Snow on High Tunnel Sides - What to do

I sure would like to know what others are doing when snow piles up on their auto-roll-up sides. I think for us the snow has been a much bigger issue than wind. We've had 2 issues with snow on the sides.  First is that the snow lays on the sides and when the sides open the snow makes the circumference of the pipe much larger.  This causes the opener to make fewer revolutions to open which then causes the sides to opens to the ribbon board which jams the motor until the fuse is blown.  The other is that the snow holds the sides closed until the motor blows the fuse.  Neither of these situations is good since they can damage the inserts that connect to the pipe and attach to the motor, and/or break other parts which we've had to fix.  Hard lessons to learn, but nothing catastrophic yet thank goodness.