Citizens of Coventry left baffled after it rains apples

Batsy · 14-12-2011 5:45pm #1

The good people of Coventry have been left mystified after a downpour...... of apples.

Bemused motorists were forced to take evasive action when an avalanche of apples descended from the sky just after the rush-hour on Monday.

One theory is that freak weather conditions may have caused a vortex of water pressure, which is when wind and rain form a powerful vacuum that can lift items and dump them up to 100 miles away.

The current of air could have lifted the fallen fruit from a garden or orchard and released it over the Coundon area of Coventry.

Another theory is that the apples could have fallen from a plane.

One motorist, who was travelling with her husband at about 6.45pm, said it was lucky the downpour hadn’t caused a pile-up.

She said: “The apples fell out of the sky as if out of nowhere.

'They were small and green and hit the bonnet hard.

'There were other cars on the road at the time too and everyone had to stop their cars suddenly.

'It wouldn’t surprise me if some cars were damaged.'

Yesterday, a 20-yard stretch of the road was strewn with crushed apples made mushy by the rain. Many had smashed as though they had fallen from a great height.

Baffled resident Dave Meakins opened the front door yesterday morning to find a number of smashed apples in his front garden.

The 63-year-old retired fork lift truck driver cleared up the mess, initially believing it was down to misbehaving children until he looked across the road to see more apple debris and realised the scale of the phenomenon.

'I honestly don’t know where the apples could have come from,' he said.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2073974/Core-blimey--raining-APPLES-Drivers-stunned-mysterious-downpour-fruit.html#ixzz1gWo8ErVn