Aliens Bombard Iowa
It would appear that even the heartland isn't safe from the practical jokes of aliens. They dropped large chunks of pure white ice on the city of Dubuque, Iowa. One fifty pound chunk went through the roof of a house and landed in the television room.
Authorities were unsure of the ice's origin but have theorized the chunks either fell from an airplane or naturally accumulated high in the atmosphere — both rare occurrences.
"It sounded like a bomb!" 78-year-old Jan Kenkel said. She said she was standing in her kitchen when an ice chunk crashed through her roof at about 5:30 a.m. Thursday. "I jumped about a foot!"
She traced the damage to her television room, where she found a messy pile of insulation, bits of ceiling, splintered wood and about 50 pounds of solid ice.
Karle and Mary Beth Wigginton, who live a block away, heard a loud "whoosh" coming through the trees. They discovered several large chunks of ice in front of their home and some smaller ones in the yard and in the street.
"I could see where branches were shredded, which told me it was definitely coming out of the sky," Karle Wigginton said.
He estimated the original chunk of ice was the size of a basketball. "It was pure white," he said. "The main parts I picked up were very smooth."
Elizabeth Cory, a spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration, said investigators would contact Kenkel to try to determine the source of the ice.
"It is very uncommon for something like this to come from an aircraft," Cory said. "That is really unusual if it is pure white ice, especially at this time of year."
As if the Midwest needed more ice falling from the sky.
Weird Stuff | Gaius Friday, 27 July , 2007
By Lars Walker, Friday, 27 July , 2007 @ 9:41 am
This is what happens when we pray for a break from the heat. We get very efficient results–highly concentrated.
By D-Hoggs, Friday, 27 July , 2007 @ 9:42 am
Great, now Heaven is melting too. Damned Global Warmingâ„¢!!
By FedUp, Saturday, 28 July , 2007 @ 9:25 am
Get ready Iowa… talkaing about aliens… the Democrats are coming..