Sounds like a Joe Dirt moment.
Posted on 08/20/2007 2:06:15 PM PDT by keat
Corrina Vargas, 26, was cooking breakfast morning in her mother’s airport district home this morning when she heard an explosion.
Her son, Carlos Mendez, 10, was sitting on a bed in the living room watching cartoons when something came through the roof. A small piece of the debris hit him in the back of the head.
Both ran out of the house, and her mother, Mary Montano, gathered the rest of the adults and children in the house and got them out.
No one was injured by what turned out to be a bowling ball-sized chunk of ice that crashed through the roof.
Police and firefighters cordoned off the home and gathered remnants of the ice chunk Monday morning.
Modesto Police Department spokesman Craig Gunlach said investigators were not sure where the ice chunk came from, but one possibility is that it dropped from a commercial airliner.
“We are in contact with the (Federal Aviation Administration), and they are not aware of where it could have come from,” Gundlach said. “There is no indication it was anything but an accident.”
Gundlach said it didn’t appear to have come from a low-flying plane arriving or leaving the Modesto Airport, which is across the street from the house on Tioga Drive.
“It was just a big old boom, and all that debris,” said Vargas. “I was just stunned. I thought it was a fire from the water heater.”
There were four adults and five children in the home when the ice came through the roof, Gundlach said.
The ice punched a three-foot hole in the roof, broke through a roof truss, continued through the living room ceiling, he said. Had it not shattered as it penetrated the home, it would have landed about a foot from where Carlos Mendez was sitting...
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Hmmmm.
dirty... meaning “blue” ???
YUCK!
Sounds like a Joe Dirt moment.
So... The mother is 26 and the son is 10? How old is the dad I wonder?
Global Warming ? Bush/Rove Disaster machine ?
Global Icing.
Mmmmmmmmmm... Frozen doodoos...
Aw crud! Not another flush.
Modesto is right under the westbound approach pattern for the San Francisco and Oakland airports. That's right about where planes level off at 10,000 feet before approaching SFO or OAK from the south part of the bay.
-PJ
just have to hate those leaky plumbing hatches on modern aircraft...
Sounds like the Dave Matthews Band is at it again!
I used to live in that area about 50 years ago. It sure has changed from what it once was. Never once had anything dropped on our heads.
Why are airplanes allowed to flush their waste out of the plane in flight (or are they)?
What makes you think anyone knows who the dad is?
What dad?
I’d guess it would be yellow.
Did Hillary fly over and has she checked her rear end to see if it is still there lately?
Both ran out of the house, and her mother, Mary Montano, gathered the rest of the adults and children in the house and got them out.
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