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Dead Fish Rain Down on Texas Town

“I looked outside and it was raining real hard and a fish hit the ground,” one resident told the local outlet WCIA.

The city of Texarkana, Texas, was gifted an unexpected surprise this week as fish rained down from the sky during a series of storms. “There was a loud crack of thunder and when we opened up the bay door, I looked outside and it was raining real hard and a fish hit the ground, and then I said, ‘It’s raining fish!’” area local James Audirsch told the Texas outlet KTAL. A scattering of small fish were reportedly found in the area on Wednesday owing to an unusual phenomenon in which wildlife can be swept skyward during severe weather. A report from the Library of Congress states that “tornadic waterspouts” are often to blame for the unconventional precipitation.