trader_4 wrote, on Sun, 31 Aug 2014 14:04:33 -0700:

but don't those rafters seems kind of far apart? And he
did say it's a tile roof.

The roof is definitely tile, no doubt about that.
I just measured, center to center, that they're 24 inches:
https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3884/1...c946f1ca_b.jpg
And that they're six inches tall:
https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3842/1...3cd7acaa_b.jpg

Is that not normal?
NOTE: We don't get snow.