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Did a frozen sky missile just hit a Whittier roof?

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Your roof is safe, but your mind won't be

Okay so check it—you ever just be chilling at home, maybe watching a little Dodgers game, and then BAM! A chunk of ice, like, falls out of the sky and crashes through your roof in Whittier? No mames, fam, that literally happened. We're talking about a piece of frozen H2O, not some little icicle, but a whole "chunk of dirty ice" big enough to make a hole in your house. The FAA is, like, officially investigating this because it's not every day you get a rogue ice missile from the heavens.

What in the World Is This?

Seriously though, what is this about?

* A "chunk of dirty ice" means it's not just regular rain.

* It happened in Whittier, which is, like, a solid Eastside-adjacent city, so it hits home a little closer, ya sabes?

* The FAA is involved, which usually means they're looking for planes or, like, some weird atmospheric phenomenon. Is it "blue ice" from an airplane lavatory? They swear that doesn't happen anymore, but... oye.

This is the kind of stuff that makes you look up at the sky a little different, especially when you're out here in Los Angeles, where literally anything can happen. Like, we deal with earthquakes, wildfires, traffic that makes you wanna pull your hair out, and now we gotta worry about ice falling from the sky? It just adds another layer to the already wild tapestry of living in LA. Imagine explaining that to your insurance company. "Yeah, so, a frozen meteor hit my house, no big deal." That's the real LA, fam—east of the 110.

Oye, my people on the morning show are always talking about the craziest stuff happening in our city—you gotta catch them live at mornings.live.

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