It looked to me like the end of the beam fractured but it could also be that the end of the beam was cut with a torch and that it was held in place with a bracket welded across the middle. That would be a very, very crude way to build a building but I suppose it is possible. Hard to say without being there and looking at stuff. We only one one picture and it isn't that clear so I'm not jumping to a conclusion. Just saying that if a person wanted to know why it failed they should start by looking at the I beam.

Quick Google search shows some areas of Mississippi received 6" of snow, I'm assuming it began and ended as ice?

In Memphis there was an ice storm Thurs followed by 11 inches of snow......My carport is the most rickety thing in the world, I thought for sure the snow would mess it up....It survived fine.....That garage beam must have had a very questionable no penetration weld.

yep doesn't look like it was setting on any bearing .

I find this comment hilarious ... in a country where mobile homes and trailer parks reign supreme !!

So I don't know if you guys have "tempos" down there but up here in the great white north just about everyone has one - thin tube framework covered with a tarp. They will take anything winter can throw at them and they don't collapse. So ya really gotta wonder just how poorly build that shop was !!!

That's probably one of the more ignorant statements I've seen on Moparts.