Dallas Weather: Flying ice damages cars as North Texas thaws

DALLAS – Should you acquired out on the icy roads this week, you little question skilled some very slick spots.

That is harmful sufficient. However defending you and your automotive from the unpredictable flying ice is just about unimaginable.

Michael Frey says an enormous piece ice flew at him whereas driving Wednesday and broken his truck windshield. 

“It appears just like the roof of the automotive peeling off the highest of it, however I knew it was a sheet of ice,” he mentioned. “I used to be driving north on 635 a few mile south of the 80 east exit.”

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Frey’s sister was within the passenger seat. They have been in Dallas on their approach dwelling to Forney. 

Frey himself is an skilled winter climate driver, having labored at a New Mexico ski resort for nearly a decade. The incident is nothing he would’ve predicted.

“I watched it come off in a single stable piece. It flew nearly out of my view. I’d say 40, 50 ft within the air fairly excessive,” he mentioned. “I might see it sort of floating like a kite. Then it appeared to take a drastic twist and simply take off towards my truck. I had no time to hit the brakes or swerve or something.”

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What occurred to Frey was not an remoted incident. Many different drivers had related encounters.

Tylissa Wright remains to be decompressing from the identical kind of incident, which brought on injury to her windshield Friday morning on the North Dallas Tollway. She was on her approach to work in Plano. After the affect, she managed to exit safely.

“Hastily, I noticed a giant sheet of ice flying within the air. It got here off of one other automotive is what I imagine in and simply smacked me. Smacked my windshield and shattered it,” she recalled. “I used to be simply attempting to get off the highway at that time. That was my major purpose. I used to be most likely driving and shifting my head attempting to see out of the totally different cracks attempting to get off the highway safely and get to someplace the place I might simply cease.”

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Frey acquired the eye of the driving force whose car the ice flew off from and hit him. She pulled over when he did.

Wright is not sure the place the chunk got here from that hit her. 

At any price, each really feel fairly lucky nobody was injured.