Ok, Worm People, how is this possible?

[Worth1]

You have to keep the lights on to keep night crawlers in their box.
Worth

[JLJ_]

Originally Posted by Worth1

I heard they got the cats and dogs thing from the dead cats and dogs floating down the streets of London after a heavy rain many years ago.
Worth

I kind of think the cats and dogs expression may have been traced to origin 150 years ago or more when the expression was along the lines of rain being hard enough to chase the cats and dogs inside. Sort of like an abundant rain can cause earthworms to try to get inside. Which I suppose could suggest that, once inside, big earthworms could climb stairs to get up 60 feet?

Earthworms on a 60 ft roof is certainly astonishing -- transported eggs or bird-dropped worms seems most likely to me -- unless there are kids that could possibly have been playing on that roof, or, less alarming, unless anyone might have stashed a can of 'fishing worms' in the attic, from which they escaped?

[ScottinAtlanta]

It was a big worm, but it wasn't capable of climbing 60 feet, unlike one of these.

[JamesL]

Originally Posted by ScottinAtlanta

It was a big worm, but it wasn't capable of climbing 60 feet, unlike one of these.

What the what!?! Sweet fancy Moses!

[Redbaron]

Originally Posted by ScottinAtlanta

It was a big worm, but it wasn't capable of climbing 60 feet, unlike one of these.

[kurt]

Just what we need now.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/0...n_7518320.html

[Wi-sunflower]

I know we have "spring peepers" or toads or ?? up in our gutters on the house and barn and some other weird spots. When they get noisy, the sound seems amplified and echos a bit and makes you crazy trying to figure out what it is.

Carol

[ginger2778]

Originally Posted by Starlight

Little children will say it is raining cats and dogs, but actually it rains tadpoles and fishes. The worms. I have no idea. I'm still trying to figure that one out myself. I have had worms in places they shouldn't be either, but your is an amazing story.



Thanks for the chuckles.

Speaking of chuckles, the adolescent in me wonders where exactly were your worms, Starlight? Maybe I don't want to know? Hee!

[peppero]

I have found them in some mighty strange places; who wudda thought?

jon

[Gardeneer]

I buy the "Birds Theory"
A bird got a pregnant worm, went up to the roof, tasted the worm and did not like the taste of it : " Yuk ! I ain't gonna it that s**t". hehe

Gargeneer

[Worth1]

You can also cut an earthworm in half and the front part will live.
so maybe the head part of the worm dropped out of the birds beak.