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A most unusual rainstorm
The Blobs That Fell from the Sky
In 1994, an unusual rainstorm rained down on the city of Oakville, Washington.
On August 7, 1994, a rainstorm unlike any other descended upon the city of Oakville, WA, with a population of 723, unleashing not raindrops but rather these mysteriously translucent, and gelatinous blobs.
The ‘blob rain’ reportedly came down in torrents, and covered as much as twenty square miles. Anyone within the vicinity of this strange rain came down with severe flu-like symptoms.
A police officer, David Lacey, was on patrol with a civilian friend when the blobs began raining down at around 3 in the morning.
“We turned our windshield wipers on and it just started smearing to the point where we could almost not see. And we both looked at each other and we said, ‘Jeez, this isn’t right.’ I mean, we’re out in the middle of nowhere, basically, and where did this come from?”
Even after Officer Lacey pulled into a gas station to clear up his windshield, he further noted the bizarre consistency of this goo:
“The substance was very mushy. It’s almost like if you had Jell-O in your hand and you could pretty much squish it through your fingers. We did have some bells go…
