Ice Hole!

It seems that someone had an "earthshaking" experience as a chunk of ice flew through their roof. I saw this brief news story tonight on a local Raleigh news channel about a man who had been sitting in his chair and got up for a minute. Next thing he knows, he hears a noise "like Hiroshima" and his chair has been destroyed by an ice chunk that apparently fell from an overflying jet airplane.

This is not the first time that a block of ice from an overhead plane has come ripping through someone's roof. It happened in 2004 to Constance Cotter of Lynn, Massachusetts. Constance says she thought her house was falling down. The ice left a hole 2 feet by 4 feet in her ceiling.

It happened on June 13th in Japan.

And in Portsmouth, an airplane's loo was taking a leak.

Airdisaster.com tells us another story about it happening in Auckland. There is also an informative discussion about "blue ice" incidents that follows.

Then there is this story (and this story) in the Santa Cruz Sentinel that quotes another website as saying "there have been at least 27 documented blue-ice incidents nationally in the past 24 years."

Then Susan Selzer of Long Island swears she has a guardian angel watching over her.

Then there's Dave Crandall of Tweaknews.net who has nothing to do with falling things from airplanes, but who created this pretty cool modification to his computer. He calls it Project Blue Ice. This is pretty interesting actually.

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