Thread:Opalwinter/@comment-34478085-20200207171606/@comment-34478085-20200210175258

Huh, a fan sounds like a great idea. I think I'll look into that. I don't blame you for being nervous about your son playing in there when you had a 5-foot ice dam plus rain! My contractor thinks my ice dam was caused by either heat from my bathroom fan (but I don't use the fan unless I have company) or just the heat from the bathroom, so a fan might alleviate that heat conglomerating under that part of my roof.

Okay, I must admit complete ignorance on roof types. I just have a ranch-style house with a shingle roof, but I don't know what pitch it is. Everyone keeps telling me to get heat tape, which I've never needed in the 20 years I've owned this house. Well, my secret is that I am TERRIFIED of fire and don't trust heat tape. I don't like anything that combines heat or electricity and moisture. (Although I made the exception last year when I bought a little portable hot tub.  I love that thing so much, I don't care if I die -- I will die happy if I'm in it!)  I purposely bought a house that was all electric heat so I didn't have to deal with a furnace with a flame in it. I wanted a metal roof, but my contractor did some research and found out that, if you have a fire, it traps the fire within more and you can die more easily. So, no metal roof. (I want one every 4th of July though, when the fireworks are so thick it's like a war zone.  Literally.  Veterans have mentioned it. I'm afraid of idiot neighbors burning down my house.) I also won't own an electric blanket. I'm a weirdo.

We got another inch or so over the weekend and it is snowing again today, though we're only supposed to get 2". I did a dumb thing this weekend.  I got sick of driving halfway down our street to cut over the winnow of snow in the middle, so I decided that, since someone had driven over it by my house, my Jeep Cherokee could make it over that in that spot too.  I got high centered.  My father is probably rolling over in his grave, because he used to have to pull dumb people out all the time when they'd try to come out to our ranch without 4WD.  I'm lucky to have a kind neighbor who saw it and helped dig me out, and other kind neighbors who stopped their vehicle to help push.  I feel super stupid!!

Thanks for the fan idea -- I'm seriously going to look into it! And will also buy a roof rake. Hope your weekend went better than mine and that your hubby is doing well.