Kicker - Iguanas in the forecast

NICK EICHER, HOST: Imagine you’re out walking around, you’re minding your own business, you pass under a palm tree. You’re in Florida, of course. And suddenly—boink—something hits you on the head.

A very specific something, an iguana.

How can this be? You should know that when it gets below 50 degrees, as it has recently in Florida, iguanas can go dormant—fall asleep right there in the tree and they’re not be able, obviously, to hang on so they fall.

I am describing the phenomenon of “raining iguanas”—it’s a real risk.

One man in Fort Lauderdale shot a video of an iguana after he fell from a palm tree:

AUDIO: Big old boy’s struggling. They never let you get this close to them. He’s cold, he fell right out the tree. And now he’s trying to warm up. He’s gonna warm up all right.

He’s not wrong. And when the iguana comes to, I imagine he’ll scamper back up into that tree and just consider it all a bad dream.

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