Looks like Dave was right!

JFryauff · #1 (**permalink**) 10-08-2003, 03:07 PM

The Associated Press

BERLIN, Conn. (October 2, 11:13 a.m. ADT) - Hurricane Isabel brought unholy high winds and lashing rain to the East Coast. It also dumped something almost biblical on Connecticut.
Primo D'Agata was startled by what he thought was hail smacking on his porch Sept. 19 as the remnants of Isabel moved through the state. But when he went outside to investigate, D'Agata discovered tiny, gelatinous eggs with dark spots in the middle.

It had apparently been raining frogs.

Since no frogs in Connecticut lay eggs this late in the year, scientists and naturalists speculate they may have come up from North Carolina or another warm location on the winds of Isabel.

D'Agata brought a bowl of his mysterious find to a nearby nature center, after the town's animal control officer couldn't identify what had arrived in his yard.

Nicolas Diaz, a naturalist and teacher at New Britain Youth Museum at Hungerford Park, took a look at D'Agata's bowl and told him it looked like amphibian eggs.

D'Agata is keeping two small, water-filled glass jars of the eggs to see if any of them will hatch. He said a few seem to have sprouted what look like a tail.

"I'm going to let them sit and see what happens," D'Agata said Wednesday.

db · #2 (**permalink**) 10-08-2003, 03:31 PM

Told ya I wasn't craaaaazzy! [img]images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img]

1point8T · #3 (**permalink**) 10-08-2003, 04:49 PM

what the....?? [img]images/smiles/icon_confused.gif[/img]

RafCarre12 · #4 (**permalink**) 10-08-2003, 05:04 PM

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by 1point8T:
what the....?? [img]images/smiles/icon_confused.gif[/img]<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

You never heard of flying frogs?

ASSWALK3 · #5 (**permalink**) 10-08-2003, 05:10 PM

i wonder what the guys face looked like when he saw they were eggs...haha

big dub · #6 (**permalink**) 10-08-2003, 06:11 PM

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Josh Fryauff:
Looks like Dave was right!<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

see there is a first for everything [img]images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img]

das boot · #7 (**permalink**) 10-08-2003, 11:01 PM

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by db:
Told ya I wasn't craaaaazzy! [img]images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img]<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
no, you're right…and crazy

veedubgolf97 · #8 (**permalink**) 10-09-2003, 12:06 AM

your as crazy as a hoot owl.... but yes dave, you get to say i told you so! [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]

VeeDub4Life · #9 (**permalink**) 10-09-2003, 09:24 PM

That's right, Only us folk in CT would get something like that. [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]

Here is the story from CNN

Click me for Frog Eggs

[ October 09, 2003: Message edited by: AlwaysVeeDubbin ]

SilverGolfCart · #10 (**permalink**) 10-15-2003, 11:19 PM

Do frogs splash when they hit the ground, like rain?

supertom9903 · #11 (**permalink**) 10-16-2003, 04:28 AM

That's freaking insane! good thing no one was outside catching rain drops in their mouth! [img]images/smiles/icon_eek.gif[/img]