A family in New Jersey is dealing with roof damage after an ice block fell into their house last week at random.
The event took place at Paul Gomez’s Paterson, New Jersey, house on Wednesday, roughly fifteen miles from Newark, according to NBC New York. His family was dining on the backyard porch when they heard the ice hitting the house, according to security footage that the outlet was able to obtain. Someone said it appeared “like an iceberg.”
Going by what he heard, Gomez informed the news station that the chunk of ice weighed about 300 pounds and sounded “like a helicopter.” During the incident, no one was hurt.
According to WABC, the ice chunk also broke through the top level floor of the family’s house, and some of the pieces ended up on their neighbor’s property. The family believes the ice included biowaste.
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Given that their new house is close to a flight path to Newark Liberty International Airport, the family believes it originated from a plane. Gomez allegedly got in touch with the FAA to look into and evaluate the damage, which is thought to have cost $20,000.
“Generally speaking, we investigate reports that we receive about incidents such as this,’ the FAA stated.
They assumed that the biowaste from the aircraft was contained in the “bathroom stuff” that was inside the ice. A New York couple was covered in “lavatory excrement” from a jet that had flown over them in 2012 as they were on their deck.
