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Florida's quote of the day

| 7/17/2019

"The invasion of land crabs. They must have got rained out of their holes. And they're everywhere."

-- Dan Skowronski

Hundreds of land crabs invaded a Florida neighborhood after heavy rains fell on the area.

Dan Skowronski, a local resident in Port St. Lucie—a city on the Atlantic coast in the south of the state—captured footage of the invasion and posted it on social media.

The video shows numerous crabs crawling around his yard and home while Skowronski describes what he is seeing.

"The invasion of land crabs," he says in the video. "They must have got rained out of their holes. And they're everywhere. They're more scared of me than I am of them."

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