Close call as ice rained from sky at Annadel (Santa Rosa, California)

[Duer 157099]

Last edited Sat Jan 18, 2014, 04:14 PM - Edit history (1)

Source: THE PRESS DEMOCRAT

Some astonished visitors to Annadel State Park say they’re grateful they weren’t hit and killed when two large chunks of ice fell from a cloudless sky.

“They were coming down like bullets,” said mountain biker Ron Schuelke, an economics instructor at Santa Rosa Junior College. “I’ve never heard of anything like this in my life.”

As the white chunks plummeted and struck with distinct thuds Tuesday near the east Santa Rosa park’s Lake Ilsanjo, both Schuelke and a second cyclist, Ryan O’Harren, were resting on the dam. O’Harren said the objects slammed into the ground close enough to him, Schuelke and four women hikers at a nearby picnic table to count as scary.



Read more: http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20140117/articles/140119574?title=Close-call-as-ice-rained-from-sky-at-Annadel

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Ewww.... my first thought is some jet emptied their toilet... ewwwww....

[Liberty Belle]

1. Space junk, maybe? Weird.

[FreakinDJ]

2. plane passing overhead probably

[cosmicone]

10. Ice won't survive re-entry from space n/t

[ailsagirl]

3. Very weird

[Richard D]

4. de-icing

on approach to SFO

[Brother Buzz]

19. A military plane on approach to Travis Air Force Base would be a better guess

[libodem]

5. Gag

It resembles a toilet bowl of frozen urine. Gross.

[Xipe Totec]

6. The color is not right; it would be blue. nt

[Berlum]

7. Frozen pee?

could be pee

[Xipe Totec]

8. The planes carry a blue liquid for flushing.

So if it came from the toilet it would have that blue tint.

[Duer 157099]

9. Maybe they ran out and were

trying to get rid of the evidence before landing?

[Epiphany4z]

11. sink water

from the story
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Told of the icebombs and shown O’Harren’s photos, veteran pilot Don Pedrazzini of Santa Rosa said he is certain the ice formed from water that drained from the sinks and/or galleys of a jetliner or large military aircraft.

[Duer 157099]

12. Much better

although, if one of those hits you on the head, I guess the difference is trivial

Are they allowed to just dump that stuff like that? It doesn't sound right.

[Epiphany4z]

22. they didn't dump it

the ice can builds up at higher altitudes then when the plane drops to a lower and warmer altitudes it falls off. It is not supposed to happen.. some warmer or deicer must have malfunctioned.

[shraby]

13. Hey Duer, I posted a request to please put location in these kinds of posts. I have no idea where

this happened, or what continent it happened on.
Could at least the state or country be in the subject line?

[Duer 157099]

14. Oh, I'm so sorry, that also really bugs me

so I am sincerely terribly sorry!

Santa Rosa, California. Sonoma county.

[Comrade Grumpy]

15. BTW, there is a Duer Rd. on Highway 12 between Santa Rosa and Sebastopol.

I need to get a pic of that.

[Duer 157099]

17. LOL

I think I saw that once and thought I should take a pic. Funny huh?

[red dog 1]

16. Possibly ice chunks from a plane's landing gear

From the Press-Democrat article:

Veteran pilot Don Pedrazzini (Delta Airlines, 33 years) said:
"Look at the pictures and you can see where it formed around something that was pointed"
"It's very white in color, so it's not from a leaky toilet"

"Pedrazzini recalled that years ago, he received a bulletin alerting pilots who flew into Tokyo that a village beneath the trans-Pacific approach was being hit by chunks of ice falling from jetliners.
He said pilots were instructed to lower their landing gear earlier, so that any ice shaken loose would fall into the ocean."

[Duer 157099]

18. Thanks for posting that

I can never access more than the 1st page of articles at their site, so if it isn't in the first page, I don't get to read it.

Something to do with bad coding on their end, and not worth my time to reconfigure my browser for their ineptitude.

[red dog 1]

20. Go Giants!

[red dog 1]

21. Thanls Duer 157099 for posting

We live about an hour northeast of where this chunk of ice came down.