The Night it Rained Fish

An unusual event happened on downtown Main Street in Sag Harbor in the summer of 1968. On a Sunday night during that summer, there had been a thunder storm. Not that being unusual in itself. However, early the next morning it was discovered that on the roof and in the driveway of Rocco's Antique Shop across from the Civil War monument, tons of small fish about two inches long were deposited to a depth of about an inch deep. And it was just on the roof and in Rocco's driveway, no where else. So how did all these fish end up there? What apparently happened was that during the thunder storm, a small twister or waterspout developed over the bay, sucked the fish up into a cloud and then deposited the fish about a quarter of a mile ashore, directly on Rocco's property. Although a rare event it does happen, frogs and toads being next on line after small fish, to being sucked up and dumped from a cloud someplace ashore. No word how he cleaned the mess up, but it did make the local papers at the time!
Rocco's Driveway where the fish ended up that summer