Puzzling ice-fall from sky
William Brand
Inside Bay Area
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Oakland, California (US):
Did it come from outer space? Jokes were flying Saturday morning after a block of solid ice, measuring more than two feet square, whooshed to Earth with a tremendous bang, digging a three-foot hole in the grass at Bushrod Park, 5800 Shattuck Ave.
Brooks and Judith Mencher said they were standing on their back porch on 59th Street near the park when they heard a sound like a rocket.The Oakland Fire Department Hazardous Materials Team said the ice was pure water. " It didn't come from a toilet on a plane or anything like that."Frank Hartmann, a neighbor, said he heard the ice passing overhead but did not see it.
"I saw a plane in the area either just before it or just afterwards."An operations manager at the Federal Aviation Administration in Los Angeles said he had never heard of such a thing."I've been here 15 years and what usually falls from planes is 'blue ice,' that's methylene glycol.
Apr 08, 2006
William Brand
Inside Bay Area
___________
Oakland, California (US):
Did it come from outer space? Jokes were flying Saturday morning after a block of solid ice, measuring more than two feet square, whooshed to Earth with a tremendous bang, digging a three-foot hole in the grass at Bushrod Park, 5800 Shattuck Ave.
Brooks and Judith Mencher said they were standing on their back porch on 59th Street near the park when they heard a sound like a rocket.The Oakland Fire Department Hazardous Materials Team said the ice was pure water. " It didn't come from a toilet on a plane or anything like that."Frank Hartmann, a neighbor, said he heard the ice passing overhead but did not see it.
"I saw a plane in the area either just before it or just afterwards."An operations manager at the Federal Aviation Administration in Los Angeles said he had never heard of such a thing."I've been here 15 years and what usually falls from planes is 'blue ice,' that's methylene glycol.
Apr 08, 2006
