Michigan Homeowner Shocked When Massive Ice Slab Knocks Out Power

It was just a typical Saturday morning at my house.

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My wife, Lindsey, and I were slowly waking up and starting our day by letting the dogs out and feeding them.

The Winter Olympics were playing in the background while my wife made chocolate chip pancakes and brewed a pot of coffee.

Everything was going great until we heard a bang so loud against the side of our house that I swore it must have been a car slamming into it.

The power immediately went out, and Lindsey and I ran to the front of the house to investigate what had happened.

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When we looked out the window, we didn't see a car, but to our surprise, the cause of the loud bang and the power outage was giant chunks of ice.

I made my way outside for a closer look, and the damage was worse than I had imagined.

A giant slab of ice had fallen from our neighbor’s second-story roof and crashed into the line connecting power to our house.

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The chunk of ice left our meter dangling from the side of the house.

We're currently sitting in our home, waiting for Consumers Energy to arrive and hopefully restore everything to normal.

I’m adding this to my long list of reasons I'm over winter and can't wait for warmer weather to finally arrive.