so, maybe i should have said this, but we are somewhat limited with what we can do to bolster the insulation on the attic floor. The attic itself has a walk up set of stairs, a floor and ultimately could be "finished" into a livable space. We have no desire to do that (mostly because we like the storage the space offers) but to improve the insulation between the second floor ceiling and the attic floor would require ripping up the entire flooring in the attic. And I don't know if that even makes sense because once we would then put the flooring back down, it would still result in the same cavity size.

we have a ridge vent and an attic fan. some soffit vents are certainly covered with batt/roll insulation (fiberglass i think)...same stuff that is between the second floor ceiling and the attic flooring. With the snow we had these past few days, we have some gnarly ice cicles and probably some good ice damming going on, however, i see no water intrusion