'Falling iguana' alert

[WVBaker]

We are not making this up.

The National Weather Service in Miami has issued an unofficial warning for falling iguanas on Tuesday night due to the unusual cold snap that's hit the Sunshine State.

'Falling iguana' alert issued in Florida due to cold temperatures: 'Don't assume that they're dead'

The National Weather Service in Miami has issued an unofficial warning for falling iguanas tonight due to an unusual cold snap in the Sunshine State.

www.usatoday.com

First the water parks and rides and now this?

 

[Luanne]

When I first saw this on Facebook I thought it was a joke.

 

[WVBaker]

Nothing like walking down the street and have an Iquana fall on your head.

 

[PigsDad]

Taste like chicken...

 

[Glynda]

It would be a good thing if the cold killed them! Seriously!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/scie...s-spread-florida-climate-warms-theyre-menace/

 

[Jan M.]

Before we moved to Florida we used to like staying at Wyndham Sea Gardens for our annual winter vacation. There we a couple of good sized iguanas that we would always see in the trees in the area around the tiki bar. So one year other people mentioned they hadn't seen the iguanas and we are standing there looking up in the trees trying to spot them. The head of maintenance comes by and asks what we are looking at. We tell him and he tells us they fell out of the trees and died when it got really cold the previous month. I'm thinking what an a...h... to feed us a line like that. Imagine my surprise later when an internet search verified what he told us. He wasn't putting the dumb Northerners on after all. The cold puts them in a stupor but unless it stays cold long enough it doesn't necessarily kill them. Sometimes the fall from the trees or rooftops if they are high enough will kill them.

The past couple of years in the Fort Lauderdale/Miami area we've seen what the news referred to as an infestation of iguanas. People were told they could kill them as they are considered pests and do damage. So we were due for a cold snap to control the iguana population.

 

[missyrcrews]

Reason #33000 for living where the cold hurts my face.... NO IGUANAS.

 

[Glenn2]

The South Florida iguana invasion is real, now every trip to Fort Lauderdale I see the green iguanas, in trees and hanging around bushes. They are usually in groups. So far, they have not invaded the Tampa Bay area. Maybe it's too cool for them up here in the winter time.

 

[WVBaker]

Taste like chicken...

Iguana meat, dubbed “chicken of the trees,” started showing up for sale on Facebook Marketplace overnight in South Florida, the Miami Herald reported.

The night the iguanas fell: Cold snap chills Florida, and lizard meat is up for sale

The weather in Florida has been so cold, iguanas are falling from trees. People are selling their meat.

www.usatoday.com

 

[T-Dot-Traveller]

Reason #33000 for living where the cold hurts my face....

too bad this doesn’t get rid of raccoons......

 

[Roger830]

I took this photo of an orange one a few days ago in Deerfield Beach.
We soon after saw a female nearby.