Ice Problems

Our house has problems. (I mean more than usual.) All of the ice and snow melting and refreezing is wreaking havoc around here. Our back door won't close, and the ice is coming in inbetween the two doors:
We've even started to get a bit of water leaking in through the inside door, onto our kitchen linoleum. There are huge icicles everywhere. Now we've got a brown water spot on our bathroom ceiling. So somehow it's getting inside into the attic space. Damon is once again outside chipping away at the ice on the roof, trying hard to get at it without actually having to climb up there - big wind gusts today and a man on the roof do not mix. We see that our neighbors somehow managed to shovel their roof, so that may have to be next for us. He just stuck his head in the door and asked me to bring his little butane lighter to him. If he sets the house on fire, he'll be in trouble. Evidently he's using it to warm up the screen door latch and thaw it. This reminds me of a Home Alone movie or something. He's been online looking up solutions to the ice dam problem we have going on up there, and one website said to make bags filled with calcium carbonate out of pantyhose, and throw those in your gutters, then they won't wash away. When Damon told me that, he looked at me like I was going to be his pantyhose supplier. I haven't worn pantyhose since the mid 90's and don't plan to ever again, if I can get away with it! So I guess if he wants pantyhose, he's going to have to be a man and go buy it himself.