Bigfoot Camper is Hurting Tonight!!

I hate to argue..... the failure is clearly from no collar ties/ joist. The king post style your talking about is for a cathedral roof but the ridge and post support beams need to be load calculated for specific size..... as I can tell they used to small of cross beams to rest all the ridge weight. Esp.when considering snow loads.

I'm sorry this happened to you. If you want a real nice looking strong snow load looking structure I would get an engineer and have him calc out for glu-laminated beams and steeper snow shedding effect.