Liz’s rant: Fishdrops are fallin’ on my head

Remember the old saying, “It’s raining cats and dogs” ? I realize it is just that – a saying. Typically, if we say it’s raining cats and dogs, we’re simply referring to the fact that the rain is coming down hard – really hard.

So what would you say if I told you it was raining fish? No, seriously. What would you say? I suspect the conversation would go a little something like this.

“You lie.”

“No, I don’t. True story. Swear it.”

“Prove it.”

“OK.”

(This is my part, where I prove to you that it did, indeed, rain fish.)

Dateline: the town of Lagamanu in Australia’s northern territory, February 25 and 26.

Local residents reported “hundreds and hundreds” of small white fish – live fish – falling from the sky. What’s more, it’s not the first time residents have reported this bizarre event. Oh, no. That would be too easy.

Fish first fell from the sky in 1974 and again in 2004.

A senior weather forecaster explained that an updraft could feasibly pull fish – and water – more than 60,000 feet into the air, and while conditions in the area were ripe for a tornado last week, none were reported.

All things considered, the situation could have been worse, as one resident so aptly put it:

“Thank God it didn’t rain crocodiles.”

Indeed.

Ah, and only if fish rain ended there. It does not. In fact, the skies have been known to rain frogs, corn, hermit crabs and alligators. Read all about it at about.com’s paranormal phenomena pages, which also includes this little snippet:

“A Korean fisherman, trolling off the coast of the Falkland Islands, was knocked unconscious by a single frozen squid that fell from the sky and konked him on the head.”

May I suggest that, in the future, we think twice before declaring it’s raining cats and dogs…

-Liz