Mystery chunk of ice crashes onto California house

MODESTO, Calif. – A California woman says she can’t explain how a large chunk of ice came hurtling from the sky and crashed through the roof of her family’s home, startling everybody inside.

Monica Savath tells KOVR-TV that on Wednesday morning she and her family were in the living room of their Modesto house when they heard a loud crash.

In the garage, they found a gaping hole in the roof and shattered ice. Nobody was injured.

Neighbor Lisa Lawrence says she was outside when she heard a whizzing sound and saw the chunk the size of a basketball.

National Weather Service meteorologist Jim Mathews says he believes it was frozen vapor that broke loose from an airplane.

This story was originally published September 11, 2015 at 7:14 AM with the headline "Mystery chunk of ice crashes onto California house."