Our old house didn't have any over hang until this year. Now has over hang all around the roof and a new metal roof. We won't have the ice dams and icicles breaking off and hitting the side of the house or windows.
We have already lost a lot of our daylight, pretty soon I'll drive both to and from work in the dark. Mid October through December it's awful dark in Maine. It's starts getting dark around 4:00 PM