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Chunk of ice crashes through roof of New Jersey home

By Ben Hooper

Dec. 3 (UPI) — A New Jersey family received a shock when a giant chunk of ice crashed through the roof of their home and ended up in the kitchen.

Kim Paradise said she was giving medicine to her baby at the family’s Marlton home when she heard a loud noise coming from another room.

«We heard something come through, it was like an explosion,» Paradise told WPVI-TV.

The ice chunk crashed through the roof of the home and punched a hole in the kitchen ceiling. Paradise said smaller pieces of ice were found outside the home.

«There’s ice outside on the grass. There’s ice in our back yard, on our roof,» she said.

Paradise said it was not clear where the ice came from, but there had been planes flying overhead at the time of the incident.

Paradise said no one inside the home was injured.

A Wisconsin man received a similar surprise in May when a 12.6-pound chunk of ice crashed through the roof of his family’s house and into his bedroom. The origins of the ice chunk that crashed into Ken Millermon’s Elk Mound home were unclear. The National Weather Service said storm clouds in the area were not strong enough to have created such a large piece of ice.

Fuente: UPI

‘Like an explosion,’ large chunk of ice falls through roof of Yucaipa home

By Deepa Bharath | dbharath@scng.com | Orange County Register
PUBLISHED: June 25, 2021 at 1:28 p.m. | UPDATED: June 25, 2021 at 5:26 p.m.

A Yucaipa couple was awakened late Thursday night, June 24, by a large chunk of ice that crashed through the roof of their mobile home and landed on their living room couch. No one was injured.

Charlet Yablonsky, 67, said it was around 9:30 p.m. when she got up from that very couch and went to bed. Barely two hours later, she heard a thunderous explosion.

“It was so loud,” she said. “I literally thought our house has exploded.”

Her path illuminated by a night light, she entered the living room and felt soaked, wet carpet under her bare feet. Then she saw pieces of plywood, insulation and particle board scattered all over.

There was a basketball-sized chunk of ice on her couch. A larger piece appeared to sit atop the hole the ball of ice had blown through the aluminum roof as it crashed down. The ice sat there, leaking.

It’s unclear if the ice fell from a passing airliner on the couple’s mobile home unit in the 12700 block of Second Street. But a number of these incidents have been reported in Southern California and around the country in residences along flight paths.

Two homes in San Bernardino County were hit in similar fashion in 2017 by ice chunks. In November of that year, chunks of ice crashed through the roof and fell in the bathtub of a Chino home. Just a month later, in December 2017, balls of ice crashed through the roof and fell in the bedroom of a San Bernardino home. No one was injured in either of those incidents.

While there is no other explanation for these mysterious visits from balls of ice, Federal Aviation Administration officials have said in the past that they are most likely dropped by airliners when ice forms from a leak in its galley. “Blue ice,” or ice that appears blue in color, would come from an airliner’s lavatory.

The FAA released a statement Friday saying it “follows up on reports such as this and attempts to identify the aircraft.”

“We cannot immediately confirm whether we’ve received a report on this incident from the homeowner, but we are looking into it,” an FAA spokeswoman said.

Yablonsky said it wasn’t possible to see how big the ice chunk was because the couple’s home has a flat roof, but she guesses it must have been sizeable because of how much water leaked as it must have sat there, melting away.

“There were pieces of ice all over the living room,” she said. “There were pieces of ice in the street as well. It soaked our living room and our rain gutter was streaming with water, which makes us think this must have been a pretty big chunk that fell.”

Her husband, David Yablonsky, 80, said he hasn’t heard of any similar incidents in the neighborhood where they’ve lived for the past seven years in a home that has belonged to his late mother since 1987.

On Friday morning, David Yablonsky said he was looking at the sunlight flood his living room through a foot-long hole in the roof.

“We have a skylight we didn’t order,” his wife said with a laugh.

While she did try to find humor in the bizarre situation, Charlet Yablonsky said she still couldn’t get that sound of the ice ripping through her roof out of her head. On Friday morning, the couple had talked to their home insurance company and awaited someone from the company to assess the damage and at least fix the roof temporarily so they would be protected from the elements.

The couple said they had preserved a chunk of ice in a bowl in their refrigerator, but they had also taken photographs of the damage in their living room.

“It’s something unimaginable,” Charlet Yablonsky said. “We’re just grateful we are OK.”

Fuente: Redlands Daily Facts

Ice chunk falls from sky, goes through roof of Wisconsin home Tuesday

By Jimmie Kaska
Published: May. 26, 2021 at 2:27 AM UTC|Updated: 15 hours ago

ELK MOUND, Wis. (WEAU) – A large chunk of ice damaged a home in western Wisconsin Tuesday morning.

According to the resident of the home, which is located near Elk Mound, Wis., the ice chunk struck the house at approximately 8:15 a.m. Tuesday. The resident described the piece of ice as “basketball-sized hail” and indicated that the object went through the roof of the home, landing in their bedroom.

WEAU-TV meteorologist Darren Maier said that the ice chunk was not a hailstone, because hailstones form in circles and are lifted aloft in the atmosphere as they grow. Maier added that hailstones also don’t get as big as the chunk of ice that struck the house near Elk Mound, which is located just northwest of Eau Claire, Wis., or about an hour and a half east of the Twin Cities. There also were no severe thunderstorm warnings issued by the National Weather Service in the Twin Cities Tuesday morning for Eau Claire Co. There were some thunderstorms that did not meet severe weather criteria that occurred across western Wisconsin Tuesday.

According to the National Weather Service, the size in which hail stones are measured and compared to goes up to four-and-a-half inches in diameter, which is called “softball-sized hail.” Hailstones that are at least one inch in diameter is considered severe. The object in this case was “ridiculously big,” according to Maier, in addition to being square-shaped as opposed to the circular or spherical form of hailstones.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says the largest hailstone ever recovered was in 2010 in Vivian, South Dakota. That hailstone was eight inches in diameter and weighed nearly two pounds.

Fuentes: Wbay, Wqow

Soccer ball sized block of ice falls from sky through roof of Florida home

By Jeff Jones May 19, 2021

PALM CITY, FL – A chunk of ice nearly the size of a small soccer ball fell from the sky and through the roof of a home in Palm City’s Danforth community. The ice crushed through the roof plywood and structural beams, splitting the wood to the ground below.

According the Martin County Sheriff’s Office, “A startling start to the morning for a homeowner in the Danforth community in Palm City after a large, solid, heavy piece of ice fell from the sky and landed on the home’s roof. The impact tore a large hole in the roof. Fortunately, it landed off to the edge of the home and crashed straight to the ground instead of inside the home. No injuries, no other reports of damage, and at this time, no clear explanation as to where it came from.”

Fuente: Shore News

Eisbrocken durchschlägt aus heiterem Himmel Stadeldach

Für einen Landwirt in Warngau endete das alte Jahr mit einem Riesen-Schrecken: Im Dach seiner Tenne klafft ein großes Loch, ein Eisbrocken hatte das Gebäude wie ein Geschoss durchschlagen. Jetzt rätselt man, woher das wohl kam.

Para un granjero en Warngau, el viejo año terminó con un horror: había un gran agujero en el techo de su granero, y un trozo de hielo había penetrado en el edificio como una bala. Ahora te preguntas de dónde vino eso.

Fuente: https://www.br.de/nachrichten/bayern/eisbrocken-aus-heiterem-himmel-durchschlaegt-stadeldach,RmRgGDi

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