Beware Falling Something
Earlier tonight I lost power in my house. A couple minutes later there were police lights and sirens. I wandered out while I was calling PECO on my cell to tell them I lost power. The automated system told me that they new about the problem, 1300 people were affected and it would be fixed within an hour and a half.
I wander down my block and see the police and fire surrounding a pallet of what another bystander told me was drywall in the middle of the street, directly beneath the downed power lines. Doing the geometry, I figure out that the wind must have blown the pallet off of the roof of a construction project across from my house.
My power came back on so no problem. I forgot about it, until a couple of minutes ago. Now, there's some sheet metal getting blown around and filling my neighborhood with loud booming. Then I got to thinking: How windy does it have to be to blow a pallet of drywall off of a roof? And wouldn't it have been pulverized by the fall? And what's dry wall doing on the roof of a building.
So I went out a few minutes ago and investigated. Turns out it was some sort of foam insulation. This makes much more sense.
