This week our new non-puzzle-related feature called “Stuff We Never Thought We’d Have to Deal With”, we feature a story on a new form of precipitation peculiar to South Florida this week: a rain of frozen iguanas.

We take you now to a news story that appeared on MSNBC:

… the prolonged freeze could doom some of the nonnative iguanas that have called Florida home since being illegally introduced from South America by pet owners.

“It’s almost like they go totally to sleep,” Ron Magill of Miami Metrozoo told WPLG TV, referring to the fact that once temperatures drop into the 40s, iguanas shut down with very little blood flow and only their heart beating.

On Wednesday, many iguanas were spotted in “frozen” states, clinging from trees or stuck on the ground.

“Generally speaking, if it warms up afterwards, they can recover,” Magill added, but a long cold snap can also kill iguanas.

Magill warned against trying to remove iguanas since they might quickly spring back to life.

“I knew of a gentleman who was collecting them off the street and throwing them in the back of his station wagon, and all of a sudden these things are coming alive, crawling on his back and almost caused a wreck,” Magill said.