Bleeding Lizards

[david44]

If being hit my floods Hurricanes dumped on by Trump the good citizens of Florida by alma mater have a new hazard.


Frozen iguanas are a real Florida weather trend. Here are some of the best photos of the cold lizards.

The reptiles can be paralyzed for several hours until they warm up and crawl away January is typically when the "frozen iguanas" phenomenon happens in Florida.

• Iguanas are known to thrive in Florida's warm climate; not so much when the temps hit the 30s or 40s.

It happened. Florida weather was so cold over the weekend that frozen iguanas fell out of trees. And users on social media were only too happy (or shocked) to comment on the trending topic.
Tracey Douglas of Davie, Florida, about 24 miles north of Miami, encountered a frozen iguana Sunday after the season's coldest temperatures were recorded. She posted the photo on Facebook, saying, "It is cold indeed in South Florida. I found this frozen iguana on my walk with my dog this morning. Y'all stay warm and bundled up."
Douglas later reported, "I am happy to report that the frozen iguana is no longer where I saw him earlier. One of the kids said they saw him moving so it's likely the sun warmed it up, and it's once again full of life."

When it feels like it’s freezing in the Sunshine State, the term "frozen iguanas" comes up. That's when the invasive species fall from trees or end up on sidewalks stunned from the cold. It happens when temperatures dip into the 30s and 40s. But not to worry, the paralysis is temporary.
Spotting a frozen iguana (or "falling iguana") is a social media phenomenon that meteorologists, the Weather Channel, Accuweather and the National Weather Service like to reference.
And now people with a non-weather background reference it, too.
Florida forecast:Cold weather – and stunned iguanas falling from trees
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Photos of frozen iguanas in Florida

In honor of this so Florida event, here are some of the best frozen iguanas photos, tweets, memes and Instagram posts from social media.
Louise Pearson submitted a photo Sunday of a frozen iguana, saying, "We found this guy in Naples this morning. He had fallen out of a tree." She followed up with an email a day later: "He was about 20 inches including tail. We believe he is OK. We put him somewhere to warm, and he has gone now."
Lisa Gilbert of Fort Lauderdale is now a believer – she posted a photo Sunday of a frozen iguana on Facebook with a caption: "This is a frozen iguana. In Florida when it is cold, they actually fall and freeze. I used to think they were dead. #frozeniguanas"
For Drew Morris of Boca Raton, Florida, the frozen iguanas' phenomenon was not something he was expecting, having just moved to the Sunshine State from California. Then he saw it happen for himself. He tweeted the photo, saying, "Earlier this week I posted about frozen iguanas falling from the sky here in Florida. That tweet was intended to be tongue-in-cheek. It is very real, and I hereby apologize to all the frozen (iguanas) out there (including this one in my driveway). He's alive but shhh he's sleeping."

[misskit]

US weather: It’s raining bats as ‘bomb cyclone’ snowstorm kills 32 people

Bats rained down across Houston after hundreds of winged creatures suffered from hypothermic shock and plunged from a bridge during the big freeze causing chaos across the US.

At least 32 people have died and more than a million people across the US and Canada were without power on Christmas. The eastern state of Maine was among the worst-hit locations, with nearly 90,000 people left without power.


Americans woke up to the coldest Christmas on record with the National Weather Service describing conditions as a “potentially life-threatening hazard”.


A spokesman added: “If you must travel or be out in the elements, prepare for extreme cold by dressing in layers, covering as much exposed areas of skin as possible and pack winter safety kits in your vehicles.”

Travel in vast swathes of the US is impossible with airports cancelling thousands of flights and heavy snow making roads impassable.


It was estimated that 250 million people have been affected by the bomb cyclone, with the storm extending more than 2,000 miles from Quebec in Canada to Texas.



Temperatures plunged to -8C (18F) in Texas, forcing a colony of Mexican free-tailed bats to huddle for warmth in the crevices of the Waugh Bridge in Houston.


However, the cold drove the bats to hypothermic shock, causing them to collapse to the pavement below.

Many were rescued by Mary Warwick, the director of the Houston Humane Society Wildlife Centre, who gathered the bats from the pavement and placed them in a box by a heat source to prevent them from freezing to death.


US weather: It’s raining bats as ‘bomb cyclone’ snowstorm kills 32 people

[david44]

Texas is bat shit crazy as all who have crossed the Rio Grande know

Just love it

Liberal Austin

Tex Mex cuisine

Fantastic trails climbing hiking caving

Peak presidential assassination ops , rednecks

Mission control

The Gulf, the desert, Waco it's got the lot

[Buckaroo Banzai]

Texas is bat shit crazy as all who have crossed the Rio Grande know

Not only in texas my friend, at least we have the good sence to stay dry.