When you’re sitting at home, doing homey things, the last thing you expect is for something to fall from the sky and land on your roof! But that actually happened to the three individuals below. Here are three times things that had no business on a roof came crashing through.
An SUV
Two Houston families had a rude awakening when an SUV crashed into one roof, flipped, and landed halfway through the other roof. The driver, who is unnamed and pending charges, was texting while driving drunk and speeding. Apparently, he hit an embankment, launching his vehicle into the air! In a miraculous turn of events, nobody was injured — not even the driver.
A Big Ball of Ice
Dwaine Morrison of Washington was shocked when his teenage son and daughter texted him pictures of the thing that struck their home while he was out: A piece of ice the size of a volleyball! The ice punched through the roof, insulation, and drywall, but didn’t hit anyone inside the home. Right now, the FAA is looking for flights that could have been the source of the ice ball, and Morrison is saving the ice while he waits for word from his insurance company.
A Meteor Fragment
Talk about beating the odds! Larry Beck of Connecticut heard a loud noise one night as he sat in his living room, and saw some dust and sheetrock fall from the ceiling. Assuming a rafter had broken, he went on to bed and decided to check the rafters the next day. But instead of a broken rafter, he found a piece of rock roughly the size of a softball. Beck’s friend urged him to have scientists take a look at the rock, and it’s a good thing he did — because Yale scientists identified it as a 4.5 billion year old meteorite!
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