National Weather Service In Sacramento

There was nothing out of the ordinary about the cloudless sky and 100-degree day. Until a basketball-sized chunk of ice came flying out of it, whizzing Earthward with a sound like a bomb falling before plunging through the roof of Monica Savath's Modesto, Calif., home.

There was nothing out of the ordinary about the cloudless sky and 100-degree day. Until a basketball-sized chunk of ice came flying out of it, whizzing Earthward with a sound like a bomb falling before plunging through the roof of Monica Savath's Modesto, Calif., home.