Look, in the sky, it’s a bird, it’s a plane … no, it’s a Shad, I think. In fact, it was a fish, lots of fish fell from the sky Wednesday night in Texarkana, Texas / Arkansas. Did you get something?
We didn’t get any at our home, which we’ve found anyway, but we saw reports on Facebook of fish landing in the McLarty Ford dealership parking lot and many other places around the Texarkana area yesterday afternoon during the latest round of heavy storms. electric vehicles that passed through our area.
Yesterday there had to be some happy feral cats in town, as they looked at each other and said “look, it’s raining food.” The fish in the picture above fell into the parking lot of our radio station and they look a bit beaten up, I suppose you would too if they had thrown you into the upper atmosphere for a while.
Photos of the city
Lucy morrison said these fell near the Texas high school. They were in the front and back yard, on the street and in the neighbor’s yard.
Tonya Elder said this bulk landed in a car park at the corner of Summerhill and College Drive.
Amy austin He didn’t say where he got this one, but it looks like a yard fish to me.
Kelley moore says this was taken at Discount Wheel and Tire in the Summerhill Road parking lot.
The science
It’s a strange phenomenon that Wikipedia calls “Animal Rain”.
An animal shower is a rare weather phenomenon in which flightless animals fall from the sky. One hypothesis is that tornadic waterspouts sometimes pick up creatures such as fish or frogs and transport them up to several kilometers.
Personal observation
I think it would be fascinating to see if some really smart person could figure out what body of water these fish came from. How far did they travel?
Does this mean that those stupid Sharknado movies are really possible?
Just thinking out loud …
What a strange day.
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