Ice Block Rain Scares Nigerians

It was a unusual scary scenario  in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, yesterday, when tiny ice blocks began to fall on them during a heavy rainfall.
Roads, rooftops and vehicles were covered with Ice blocks, which melted a few minutes later.

The rain which began around 5:42pm with a  was slightly windy weather suddenly began raining blocks which
Many, who weren't indoor, reported being hit by rain of ice blocks.


Frightened motorists, who did not know what was hitting their vehicles hurriedly parked by the roadsides.
In Ake, the wind shields of three vehicles were broken by the ice.

The experience was the same in Panseke, MKO Abiola Stadium and Kuto.

Mr. Denola Badejo of the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library(OOPL), Abeokuta, said he was afraid when the rain caught him driving.

According to him, "I thought it would break my glass. The first time I witnessed it was in 1977 in Ijebu - Ode. I was in the secondary school then. During my first experience, tiny fishes fell from the sky with the ice. I caught one of the fishes and tried to rear it, but it died later."

Mr. Bolaji Adisa of the Ogun State Office of the National Orientation Agency(NOA) said motorists were compelled to pull up by the roadsides because they were not sure of what was happening.

I can only imagine when it starts raining snow in Naija what we will do? Won't that be a nice experience?