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Re: Ice Capades

> 
> I propose that this unique blue-ice meteorite be called a "flushite."


The works of Charles Fort and other 'anomalist' publications are rife
with ice falls. Though today the majority of ice falls are caused by ice
from aircraft wings and aircraft toilets, we still have several
instances which occured prior to the invention of aircraft. Some of
these ice falls are really accumulations of hail or prodigious hail
stones, but a small percentage may be meteoric in origin.


"August 1857, Cricklewood, England.
A 25-pound mass of ice found on the ground. 
'Assumed' to have fallen there."

Willis, Ronald J.; "Ice Falls," _INFO Journal_, 1:12, Spring 1968

August 1882.
Salina, Kansas.
An 80-pound 'hailstone' falls.

Willis, Ronald J.; "Ice Falls," _INFO Journal_, 1:12, Spring 1968

"An Eighty pound Hailstone," _Scientific American_, 47:119, 1882

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May 24, 1972
Riverside, California
"Building damaged by an ice 'bomb': A chunk of ice weighing between 30
and 50 pounds fell from the sky and ripped through the roof of a
downtown Riverside law office building and landed on a third-floor
hallway. No one was injured but damage to the building was estimated at
several hundred dollars. Observing the evidence before it melted,
authorities theorized it might have fallen from a passing plane, but a
spokesman for the FAA said he knew of no aircraft in the area at the
time."Attributed to L.A. Times

Source: 

_Tornados, Dark Days, Anomalous Precipitation, and Related Weather
Phenomena_ compiled by William R. Corlis, (c)1983

(The next chapter is about stones falling from the sky :-)

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