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DESTIN, Fla. – Beachgoers in Destin were in for a sight Tuesday morning along the Emerald Coast. Boo Freeman posted a video to Instagram showing a giant water spout that had formed off the coast of Destin in the Gulf.

It's raining octopus! Sea creatures fall from the sky after being 'sucked from the ocean by a waterspout and carried into coastal city' during powerful storm in ChinaThe pictures were taken in Qingdao city in east China's Shandong Province Qingdao Meteorological Administration posted images of the sea creatures An octopus, mollusks, shellfish and other marine life can be seen in the images The hurricane-force wind speeds generated during the storm set a new recordIncredible photos have emerged from China that show octopus and other sea creatures raining from the sky after being sucked out of the ocean by a violent...

<p>Four children were injured — one seriously — on Monday when a waterspout spun ashore and lifted a bounce house that was set up near the basketball court on Fort Lauderdale Beach, authorities said.</p> <p>All four children were taken to Broward Health Medical Center about 12:30 p.m., said Deputy Chief Timothy Heiser of Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue.</p>

A massive waterspout roared just offshore Grand Isle, Louisiana on Wednesday and the photos and video are incredible. Local news indicates nobody was injured and there was only minor damage once the storm came ashore.

Waterspout taps into an old spring of republicanism By Tom Peterkin, Ireland Correspondent (Filed: 29/10/2005) An apparently innocuous waterspout given to a small market town after it suffered from crop failure would appear to be an unlikely symbol of English colonial oppression. But plans to restore a 19th century limestone well in Nenagh, Co Tipperary, have re-ignited ancient Anglo-Irish animosities. A £27,000 proposal to refurbish the spout and reinstate a plaque commemorating the "unparalleled benevolence of the English nation to the poor of Ireland" has outraged republicans, still smarting from the treatment of Irish peasants during the Great Famine of...