# Wormnado -- Mother Nature is seriously fucking with us **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 4, 2021, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wormnado-mother-nature-is-seriously-fucking-with-us/939401 "2021-04-04T20:15:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2021, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wormnado-mother-nature-is-seriously-fucking-with-us/939401/1 "2021-04-04T20:15:23Z")
WARNING! Do not watch this video if you are creeped out by crawly, squirmy, wormy things and/or bizarre natural phenomena. Because you will not get this picture out of your head. Of course, I know there are the warped among you who love stuff like this. Enjoy. 🥴 This is the headline: **Scientists Stumped By Creepy Sidewalk ‘Wormnado’ – Earthworms in a “herd” is a thing, but the shape has experts baffled.** Two-click rule in effect. [Scientists Stumped By Creepy Sidewalk 'Wormnado' | HuffPost Impact](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/worm-cyclone-wormnado-new-jersey-mystery_n_6068f96cc5b66c4ab6b352a4) > Scientists were scratching their heads after hundreds of writhing worms formed a cyclone shape on a sidewalk in [New Jersey](https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/new-jersey). > > The strange incident occurred after heavy rains in [Hoboken](https://www.huffpost.com/topic/hoboken), across the Hudson River from [Manhattan,](https://www.huffpost.com/topic/manhattan) earlier this month. Masses of worms emerging from the soil after downpours is not unusual — but the size of this group and the odd formation baffled experts. > … > > Many of the Hoboken worms were in a giant swirl on the sidewalk, though a [few were still squirming into position](https://www.livescience.com/squirming-worm-tornado-new-jersey.html) when the local resident had spotted them, the woman told Live Science. > > What caused the shape? > > “This tornado shape is [really interesting](https://www.livescience.com/squirming-worm-tornado-new-jersey.html),” Kyungsoo Yoo, a professor in the Department of Soil, Water, and Climate at the University of Minnesota, told Live Science. But he didn’t have a clue about the shape and said he had never before seen earthworms in a spiral. > … ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2021, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wormnado-mother-nature-is-seriously-fucking-with-us/939401/2 "2021-04-04T21:54:17Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/qE6brM24yIA/hqdefault.jpg "Night Court-Brent Spiner Once Again") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE6brM24yIA) ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2021, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wormnado-mother-nature-is-seriously-fucking-with-us/939401/3 "2021-04-04T23:28:30Z")
That was a great show! ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2021, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wormnado-mother-nature-is-seriously-fucking-with-us/939401/4 "2021-04-05T15:06:00Z")
I wonder why they’re so gray? I’ve never seen earthworms that color. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2021, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wormnado-mother-nature-is-seriously-fucking-with-us/939401/5 "2021-04-05T15:27:13Z")
Well I am disappointed. I clicked on this thread expecting a tornado that happened to hit some huge mass of earthworms, sending them flying into the sky for miles around. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2021, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wormnado-mother-nature-is-seriously-fucking-with-us/939401/6 "2021-04-05T15:51:20Z")
Date of the video is 1st April ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2021, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wormnado-mother-nature-is-seriously-fucking-with-us/939401/7 "2021-04-05T16:01:18Z")
Interesting… are you hypothesizing that this is (excuse the expression) FAKE NEWS? That would be okay with me. I don’t want earthworms to be able to use their hive mind to gang up on us humans. I want them to be separate and disorganized like a non-union shop. I don’t want them marching in groups, whether in straight lines or in circles. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2021, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wormnado-mother-nature-is-seriously-fucking-with-us/939401/8 "2021-04-05T16:14:01Z")
Yeah, same here. Very 2D. What a let-down. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2021, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wormnado-mother-nature-is-seriously-fucking-with-us/939401/9 "2021-04-05T16:27:07Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > Well I am disappointed. I clicked on this thread expecting a tornado that happened to hit some huge mass of earthworms, sending them flying into the sky for miles around. Same. I mean we’ve had deluges of frogs and fishes, why not worms? ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2021, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wormnado-mother-nature-is-seriously-fucking-with-us/939401/10 "2021-04-06T15:14:20Z")
Somebody at the Syfi channel just had to throw away a script. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2021, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wormnado-mother-nature-is-seriously-fucking-with-us/939401/11 "2021-04-06T15:18:47Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > Somebody at the Syfi channel just had to throw away a script. - You use a Wormnado to catch a Sharknado.