Interesting near-serious very weird accident

[MrBrightside]

So I live here in the midwest (Oklahoma) where we're currently still suffering effects from this ice storm. If you don't know there was two to two and half inches of solid ice covering everything. I litterlaly had to chisel it off my truck after it sat for four days. So I'm going to work..

On a highway, which has been plowed/sanded and generally in good shape. There is a full-size, but short bed pickup truck about 5 car lengths in front of me. I'm half asleep when suddenly I see some movement from the bed then there is an approximately 6 by 8 foot sheet of ice tumbling in midair towards me!!

The bed of the truck was, like mine, covered in ice. It lifted off thru some weird air flow in a single piece, flipping end over end really fast. I broke (hard) and it hit about a car length in front of me, shattering into a bazillion pieces. The thing probably weighed 150-200 pounds, who knows the damage it would have caused.

Needless to say, this freaked me out pretty bad. I caught my breath, and made sure to chip the ice from the back of my truck when I got home....

Also: I forgot this detail: the thing was so perfectly intact in one piece, I could see the indentations on the sides where the wheel wells were.

[PartyPooperGuy]

How thick do you think it was? 6 by 8 by how many inches?

[MrBrightside]

I should have stopped and gotten a piece. The stuff in my bed was about 2 1/2 inches.

[PartyPooperGuy]

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I should have stopped and gotten a piece. The stuff in my bed was about 2 1/2 inches.

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If it was roughly that thick, and if you hit it while you were going more than 20 miles per hour, I would guess it wouldn't cause any damage.

[Paul B.]

I hate to be a nit, but this isn't an accident and the past tense of brake is braked.

[guids]

no way, I had the same thing happen abuot 3 weeks ago, we didnt get 2.5 inches even, but a huge piece on top of my SUV caught some updraft, and flew off flipping end over end, there was a mustang that had to swerve to avoid it, but I have no doubt it would have went through his windsheild.

[Patrick del Poker Grande]

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So I live here in the midwest (Oklahoma)

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I stopped here.

[PartyPooperGuy]

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this isn't an accident

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Are you implying that someone set this up, on purpose?

[Golden_Rhino]

I've always thought that there has to be a way to clean off truck roofs (rooves?). I have had to dodge big sheets of ice too many times, and I am pretty sure they would have done some serious damage.

[guids]

I now run my through one of those cheap 4$ car washes.