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Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 14:47:54 -0700
From: dino <dino@euclid.colorado.edu>
Subject: Reference for fish falling from the sky.

Hey, I just wished you happy birthday, and you asked about the reference for the fish falling from the sky story. I did a post from this right after HT's post on this, but one can't follow everything that comes over. Here it is:

The Elements Rage
Frank W. Lane

Chilton Books
A Division of Chilton Company Publishers

Philadelphia & New York

Copyright 1965 by Frank W. Lane First Edition

Library of Congress Catalog Number 65 - 25941

The specific reference is on page 79, in the chapter on waterspouts. The book is full of fun stories of stuff that Mother Nature does when she gets PO'ed, the chapters are:

Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Waterspouts, Hail, Avalanches, Lightning, Floods, Meteoroids, Earthquakes, and Volcanoes

Lane has a nose for good stories, but presents some of them as "This is how I was told this, make of it what you like," so doesn't claim that all of the stories are true. But the one about falling fish to which I referred *was* fairly well-documented, though he tells a number of others that are undocumented, and has the intelligence to make this fact clear.