Reason #731 I'm glad I don't own this house

[nathanjw]

A brick from the corner of the chimney just plunged to its doom in the yard, making an impressive racket on the way down. Figuring out what made the noise and finding the brick was not what I had in mind for a fun midnight game.

Comments

[vilejynx.livejournal.com]

OK, aren't you supposed to take pity upon us at some point and tell us what _caused_ the falling? Or was that undetermined?

[nathanjw]

Really, I don't know. It was very hot yesterday - over 90 for the first time this summer - and a thunderstorm came through at around 7pm. So thermal expansion/contraction cycles and maybe the rain could be responsible for loosening it, but I have no idea what actually made it drop off the chimney.