[Izzy Dunne]

[Wings-n-Wind]

An 18-inch chunk of ice fell onto this Ford Mustang on Sunday morning. The force shattered the back windshield and bounced the car 3 feet into the air, a witness said.

Serious exchange of inertia... OUCH!

[dalereed]

Looks like a chunck of rime ice to me.

I've had chunks falling off the plane after landing at Burbank and was tying down after coming over Gorman in a storm.

[raygun]

Talent of silver contained 3,000 shekels (Ex. 38:25, 26), and was equal to 94 3/7 lbs. avoirdupois. The Greek talent, however, as in the LXX., was only 82 1/4 lbs. It was in the form of a circular mass, as the Hebrew name _kikkar_ denotes. A talent of gold was double the weight of a talent of silver (2 Sam. 12:30). Parable of the talents (Matt. 18:24; 25:15).

Revelation 16:21 mentions a hailstorm having stones weighing a talent each. The Greek talent of ice would occupy a volume equivalent to 37300g / (0.998g /cm³) = 37374.75cm³ / 1000000cm³ = 0.037374m³. The volume of a sphere is computed according to the formula of 4/₃ p r^3.

\ r = ³Ö(0.037374m³)3/_4p = .20741m = 8.16575" = 1.3601' diameter hailstones.

This is a conservative estimate in that colder hailstones would be somewhat larger (colder ice being less dense), and if the Greek talent equivalent of gold is intimated in the passage, the stones would be bigger by at least a factor of 1.25.

[greenthumbedislndr]

Hmm.... See what you get for washing your car on Sunday morning at 9 am instead of being at church? Everybody take heed and quit skipping from Sunday School.

On the other hand, it looks suspicious to me that there is no water around that chunk of ice in the photo. wouldn't the outside of it start melting imediatelly? this is in FL ain't it? the person who took the photo had to be able to get that camera really fast for it to not be any water around that chunk of ice in the photo.