Mysterious Chunk of Ice Crashes Through CA Home

It looked a garbage bag and sounded like a bomb, but authorities still don’t know where it came from. A basketball-sized chunk of ice smashed through the roof of a Modesto, California, home just after 11 a.m. Wednesday, damaging a car in the garage, and giving the neighbors quite a shock.

"It looked like a garbage bag flying in the air," Lisa Lawrence, who lives a few streets away, told the KCRA. "I looked up at it, and it was a big old ball of ice, bigger than a basketball and I watched it go down and it went off like a bomb."

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The massive block of ice hit the home of Amnuay Savath, who was sitting in the living room, just yards away, with three other members of her family, reports the Modesto Bee. Savath told the paper she initially thought someone had driven into her garage door. But when she ehcekd the garage, she found the remains of the ice chunk, which had struck the rear bumper of the family’s Honda Accord and shattered into numerous pieces.

So where did it come from?

Jonathan Erdman, meteorologist for The Weather Channel, says it definitely wasn’t a hailstone from a thunderstorm.

“Skies were clear over California's Central Valley Wednesday morning, so it could not have been a hailstone,“ he said

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