Dear friends from EnglishForums. I have translated a curious (to me at least) text from Spanish into English and I would need that you help me in correcting it, please. I don’t know if the length is the proper one for this kind of solicitude and I will understand if you feel reluctant to correct the text.
Anyway, thank you in advance,
Eladio
Can it rain frogs?
The strong whirls of wind and some air currents produced by rain clouds can carry themselves endless and the most dissimilar objects. These objects are caught by the cloud until they precipitate to earth at certain distance from where they were lifted, that can cause the astonishment of the witnesses of the show. There is numerous of these cases reported in noted scientific journals as Monthly Weather Review, Nature or Scientific American.
These reports not only tell us about frog rains, but also of toads, honors, spiders, snails, mussels, scarabs, ants without wings and worms. Besides it is said about even stranger precipitations, as that one it is said that happened in Sicily in 746, when it rained crosses.
The 30th of July in 1838 it is said that in the very London heart, the pedestrians were surprised by a celestial avalanche of frogs and tadpoles. In the summer of 1804, in the proximities of Toulouse, it is said that took place a rain of young toads. The 28th of December in 1857, during a heavy storm, the sidewalks of Montreal, in Canada, were literally covered by hundreds of mussels. The most celebrated fish storm, more concretely of certain river fish, happened in England the 11th of February in 1859.
Conrad Lycosthenes in his work "Prodigiorum ac ostentorum chronicom" says that he saw a toad rain in 1345, and he mentions that a strange precipitation of fish took place in the year 989 in Saxon. Anyway, does not it seem to you that it is very strange that since 1859 people have not reported the occurrence of such events?