Fish fall from the sky during rain in east Texas, city reacts

[Gefn]

As if 2021 hasn't been quite a year already, now there are fish falling from the sky in east Texas.

Several residents in Texarkana posted pictures and videos to social media Wednesday after finding fish scattered in some unlikely places including their lawns and sidewalks.

"2021 is pulling out all the tricks… including raining fish in Texarkana today," said the City of Texarkana. "And no, this isn’t a joke."


https://www.kxxv.com/news/local-news/fish-fall-from-the-sky-during-rain-in-east-texas-city-reacts

[240B]

The birds and the cats are going to be happy.

[Cyber Liberty]

I've been to Texarkana a few times, and it's an odd place, straddling two states which had very different liquor laws at the time (1980).

[Smokin Joe]

Well, at least it wasn't frogs...

[roamer_1]

Well, at least it wasn't frogs...

YET.

[Bigun]

YET.

That happens as well.  I have personally observed both in my lifetime @roamer_1 @Smokin Joe

What happens is a thunderstorm spawns a twister that cleans out a small stream or a stock pond and distributes what was in it over a wide area.

[Cyber Liberty]

That happens as well.  I have personally observed both in my lifetime @roamer_1 @Smokin Joe

What happens is a thunderstorm spawns a twister that cleans out a small stream or a stock pond and distributes what was in it over a wide area.

Sort of like my Grandparent's barn.  Spread all over the Front 40, with much of it pinned against the treeline at the far end.

Side note:  While in the basement during the storm my Gramma discovered my Aunt had left her bicycle out of the barn, right next to it.  The bike was still there afterwards, sitting on it's quick stand.

[roamer_1]

That happens as well.  I have personally observed both in my lifetime @roamer_1 @Smokin Joe

What happens is a thunderstorm spawns a twister that cleans out a small stream or a stock pond and distributes what was in it over a wide area.

How it works is of less interest than how it feels @Bigun ... Eerie... Epic... Somehow Biblical... Prophetic...
That 'step-on-your-grave' thing that science has taught us to ignore...

[Smokin Joe]

How it works is of less interest than how it feels @Bigun ... Eerie... Epic... Somehow Biblical... Prophetic...
That 'step-on-your-grave' thing that science has taught us to ignore...

Yeah, well, I'm a scientist, but I don't ignore that stuff any more. it's because I am a scientist that I don't.

[roamer_1]

Yeah, well, I'm a scientist, but I don't ignore that stuff any more. it's because I am a scientist that I don't.

We both know how rare you are in your field.

[Bigun]

How it works is of less interest than how it feels @Bigun ... Eerie... Epic... Somehow Biblical... Prophetic...
That 'step-on-your-grave' thing that science has taught us to ignore...

Science has taught me not to ignore anything and that has served me well for going on 74 years now @roamer_1

[Smokin Joe]

We both know how rare you are in your field.

Mrs Joe had the opportunity to become a Medicine Woman.
The spiritual aspects scared her off. They are real and profound.
Every significant change in my life has been preceded by a dream.
The kind that wake you up...
Including her passing, only in that dream I was helpless to do anything.
I spoke with her on the phone a few hours before her coronary, and she sounded bright, alert, and in good spirits, and was feeling well.
So, I figured everything was okay, and prayed it was just something I ate.
Not so.

[Bigun]

Mrs Joe had the opportunity to become a Medicine Woman.
The spiritual aspects scared her off. They are real and profound.
Every significant change in my life has been preceded by a dream.
The kind that wake you up...
Including her passing, only in that dream I was helpless to do anything.
I spoke with her on the phone a few hours before her coronary, and she sounded bright, alert, and in good spirits, and was feeling well.
So, I figured everything was okay, and prayed it was just something I ate.
Not so.

Works that way for Mrs. Bigun as well and 53 years of marriage to her has taught me to pay attention when she tells me about her dreams.

[Bigun]

We both know how rare you are in your field.

I don't think @Smokin Joe is all that rare he just works in an area that does not require him to toe any lines.

Yet!

[roamer_1]

Science has taught me not to ignore anything and that has served me well for going on 74 years now @roamer_1

@Bigun
Science serves me well too, where it applies. But science can only study what it can see... Which often leaves it woefully inadequate.

[Bigun]

@Bigun
Science serves me well too, where it applies. But science can only study what it can see... Which often leaves it woefully inadequate.

This may surprise you, but I agree with that statement entirely @roamer_1

Not ignoring ANYTHING covers a LOT of territory. Seen and unseen.

[mystery-ak]

https://twitter.com/camillecwarren/status/1476592962276630537

[roamer_1]

Mrs Joe had the opportunity to become a Medicine Woman.
The spiritual aspects scared her off. They are real and profound.
Every significant change in my life has been preceded by a dream.
The kind that wake you up...
Including her passing, only in that dream I was helpless to do anything.
I spoke with her on the phone a few hours before her coronary, and she sounded bright, alert, and in good spirits, and was feeling well.
So, I figured everything was okay, and prayed it was just something I ate.
Not so.

Similar for me. Dreams, waking dreams, and visions. And sometimes that invades real life.
Hawks and eagles particularly.... Messengers for me. Once a wolf stepped into the trail and sat down, staring at me intently... Would not move... Took it for what it was, waived at him, and turned around, beating feet for home... In every case, portent.

Science cannot tell me why. And I do not need to know.

[Hoodat]

Well, at least it wasn't frogs...

I've seen it rain frogs in East Texas, but not fish.

[roamer_1]

This may surprise you, but I agree with that statement entirely @roamer_1

Not ignoring ANYTHING covers a LOT of territory. Seen and unseen.

That's right... Maybe I am making too much of it... But then, maybe one should look at how an angry God has traditionally tried to get a people's attention.

Not long ago, such an occurrence would fill the churches to the brim. Just pointing that out @Bigun 

[Smokin Joe]

I don't think @Smokin Joe is all that rare he just works in an area that does not require him to toe any lines.

Yet!

I have one line to toe. Find oil, be right about where it is.
It's a neat job, in the sense that every job you get a unique chance to screw up.
Your reward for not screwing up?

Another chance...

That's what keeps the beans on the table.

[catfish1957]

Lots of lakes around, and especially south and west of Texarkana.  Caddo, among them.

Fish dropping from waterspouts are pretty common.

[Smokin Joe]

Similar for me. Dreams, waking dreams, and visions. And sometimes that invades real life.
Hawks and eagles particularly.... Messengers for me. Once a wolf stepped into the trail and sat down, staring at me intently... Would not move... Took it for what it was, waived at him, and turned around, beating feet for home... In every case, portent.

Science cannot tell me why. And I do not need to know.

It was summed up eloquently in Hamlet:

"There are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamed of in your philosophy, Horatio."

I watch critters, too.
When they don't act 'normal', it means something, if no more than they are sick.
Critters acting normal can tip a guy off to a lot, too, especially in the boonies.

I learned that before I earned any letters in science, and chose the one branch where imagination often leads to figuring things out...so far.

[Bigun]

It was summed up eloquently in Hamlet:
I watch critters, too.
When they don't act 'normal', it means something, if no more than they are sick.
Critters acting normal can tip a guy off to a lot, too, especially in the boonies.

I learned that before I earned any letters in science, and chose the one branch where imagination often leads to figuring things out...so far.

Both of my maternal grandparents were very adept at predicting weather based on their observation of the behavior of the animals around them constantly. I picked that up to some degree but nothing like to their level.

[Smokin Joe]

Both of my maternal grandparents were very adept at predicting weather based on their observation of the behavior of the animals around them constantly. I picked that up to some degree but nothing like to their level.

The  lowly fly is a great indicator. They get clingy and want to get inside or in a protected area before a rain.
The worse they are, the harder it will rain.

Smoke (like from a starting piece of equipment) will curl downwind, staying low, instead of rising straight up.

Leaves on a few different species of trees will turn (flip in the breeze),, showing their undersides.

Just a few indicators to be found even under a clear sky that will indicate rain later.

I could usually tell when I lived back east, even if the sky was clear, if we'd have rain that day.