First it rains tadpoles...
Then
Flippin' Hedorah shows up!
I read the script!
Posted on 06/09/2009 10:04:38 PM PDT by Schnucki
Residents, officials and scientists have been baffled by the apparent downpour of tadpoles in central Japan's Ishikawa Prefecture.
Clouds of dead tadpoles appear to have fallen from the sky in a series of episodes in a number of cities in the region since the start of the month.
In one incident, a 55-year-old man who was caught in a tadpole downpour described hearing a strange sound in the parking lot of a civic centre in the city of Nanao.
Upon further exploration, he found more than 100 dead tadpoles covering the windshields of cars in an area measuring 10 square metres.
Dead tadpole downpours were also reported by local officials 48 hours later in the city of Hakusan in the same prefecture.
The raining down of small creatures such as frogs and fish is a rare meteorological phenomenon that is reported from time to time across the world.
Scientists have widely attributed the surreal raining of animals to strong winds, storms and water sprouts sucking up creatures before depositing them further inland.
However, this explanation has not satisfied meteorologists in the Ishikawa region.
Officials at Kanazawa Local Meteorological Observatory told local media that they were unsure how the tadpoles had arrived as there had been no reports of strong winds at the time.
Another scientific explanation for raining animals relates to birds carrying the small creatures before dropping them as they fly overland.
However, dismissing this theory, a researcher at the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology in Abiko told Kyodo news: "Crows eat tadpoles but if these were spat out (by the birds), a wider area should have been covered."
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
End of days. Better redeem my Chevy’s Gift Certificate while I got the chance....
They can be sucked up by cyclones/ hurricanes and deposited far, far off, later.
Fish have rained down this way, before.
Tadpoles would have been able to come from much, much farther places...
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I had an old Reader’s Digest book called “Mysteries of the Unexplained” that contained stories like this. Fascinating stuff!
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OK, I admit it. This was a prank. I’m sorry for all the trouble.
Bush’s fault (sarc)
Exactly! I was going to say watch out, all those tadpoles are probably tiny baby Godzillas. Weird stuff happens all over the place, but when it happens in Japan...it’s probably Godzillaesqe.
Just wait until the hail catches fire!
Isn’t a rain of toads a sign of the apocalypse?
Hellbender and Skink In The Grass.....:)
Fish have rained down this way, before.
Tadpoles would have been able to come from much, much farther places...
Aren't tadpoles freshwater creatures? If so, they would have had to originate from some source other than the ocean - which greatly reduces the number of prospective sources.
I don't know. But if it is, what would this mean? We're ALMOST there?
There are saltwater frogs in S.E Asia. It’s the Monsoon / Cyclone season right there now.
S.E Asia isn’t that far off of Japan.
Try Charles Fort's "The Book of the Damned", Very historical account of weird stuff. It's probably where RD got most of their material.
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