Posted on 12/25/2020 3:34:04 PM PST by nickcarraway
With unexpectedly cold weather in the forecast and pandemic-related curfews in some places, Florida is about to have a Christmas unlike any other in recent memory, and it may involve falling iguanas.
The National Weather Service earlier this week warned that South Florida could experience the coldest Christmas Day in 21 years. Morning lows on Saturday could drop into the low 30s and 40s degrees Fahrenheit, the weather service said.
“ Brrr! Much colder temps expected for Christmas," the National Weather Service in Miami tweeted earlier this week. “Falling iguanas are possible."
I’d like to see them in a remake of “Cabaret”.
Well, the snakes are eating a lot of critters. A friend had his female Burmese Python sneak off during one of our parties back in the ‘80s. Homestead area. The ‘Glades have taken a beating for a long time. The canals that criss-cross southern Florida were designed to drain off all of the rain. With it no longer flowing slowly through the ‘Glades, saltwater was allowed to work its way inland. About the only environmental success story I’ve heard out of the area is that American Crocodiles are apparently flourishing in the warm effluence of the Turkey Point Nuclear Power plant. When I was there in the 80s, the manatee liked to hang there in the winter.
Who wouldn’t?
“jellicoe songs for Jellicoe iguanas.”
A classic.
And a lot of critters are eating the snakes.
Gators and crocs love them.
Smaller carnivores and birds eat the eggs and hatchlings.
Radioactive crocodiles is a disturbing image.
o_O
Crap...I forgot to add the obligatory
“It’s the Great Circle of Life”
:D
[they should release Mongeese in the glades. Mongeese?? Mongooses? Mongi? WTF *is* the plural of those things??]
OMG, I just watched that movie two weeks ago.
I had NO idea what the hell I was seeing or hearing.
I only watched it for Idris Elba and by the time it was over, my mind was forever afflicted.
/send me to the Heavyside, please
Guess they’re not too concerned with rising sea levels.
I would reckon that anyone who builds at sea level, in the first place [or below... looking at you, N’awlins] has a rather cavalier opinion of inevitable disaster, in the first place.
;)
*I’m 1600 feet above and if I had my choice, it would be even *more*
:D
Judging by that sneeze, the snake has covid.
/yeah, I know
;D
I saw an iguana move once. It blinked its eye.
Iguana be taking my umbrella when I visit Tampa.
Mexican Radio
Wall of Voodoo
I wish I was in Tijuana
Eating barbecued iguana
I’d take requests on the telephone
I’m on a wavelength far from home
Sounds like lyrics to some song I can’t identify.
ABSOLUTELY!
My head count with the pellet gun this spring and summer is 18. Off to check the yard to up the count, as it dropped to 42 this morning...
Let me know how you do......and what kind of a rifle do you have? I have a Daystate Huntsman Regal, PCP, .177........I use it on the starlings and house sparrows under my backyard feeder.
Maybe that’s the way to get rid of them.
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