It’s been storming a lot in the Lowcountry recently, but apparently not as hard as in July 1843 when the Charleston Mercury apparently reported that it an alligator rained onto Charleston. According to a reprinted clipping from the New Orleans Time-Picayune:
“St. Paul’s Church was struck [in the storm] but not seriously injured, unless we may account as such the raining down of an alligator about two feet long, at the corner of Wentworth and Anson streets. We have not been lucky enough to find any one who saw him come down — but the important fact that he was there is incontestible — and as he couldn’t have got there any other way, it was decided unanimously that he rained dwn. Besides, the beast has a look of wonder and bewilderment about him, that showed plainly enough he must have gone through a remarkable experience. By the last accounts he was doing as well as an alligator could be expected to do after sailing through the air in such bad weather.” See the clipping.
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