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You will be surprised what these cats & dogs did after they fell from the sky!
Occasionally I like to scan through a list of odds-and-ends trivia that appears on a website I sometimes visit. I was doing so today, when I came across one that read: On July, 2, 1843, (according to a story that ran in the Charleston Mercury newspaper, which then was republished in both the Times Picayune in New Orleans and the New York Evening Post) an alligator fell from the sky in Charleston, South Carolina, during a thunderstorm.
Upon reading it, the first thing that came to mind was the saying “It’s raining cats and dogs,” so I did a quick search to try and learn the origin of that saying. Surprisingly, I couldn’t find it.
Oh sure, there were various speculations. One was that it had to do with animal corpses that washed out of drainpipes during heavy rainstorms in 17th-Century Europe. Another explanation was that cats and dogs may be a corruption of the Greek word Katadoupoi, which refers to waterfalls on the Nile. Neither of these, nor any of the other explanations, sounded especially accurate or reliable to me.
Original source can be found here.
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