Written by bizpacreview.com - May 15, 2021

At least it’s not ‘raining’ mice from the sky, except it IS down under and that’s just for starters.

Australia is suffering from a mouse plague and one journalist caught the rodents literally “raining” from the sky in a viral video as hundreds were expelled from a grain bin. Some were alive and some were dead.

Many horror stories are being told by Australians concerning the inundation of mice in the country. Australian Broadcasting Corporation journalist Lucy Thackray highlighted the plague of rodents as she videoed them in New South Wales while a farmer cleaned out a silo.

“Even if grain’s in silos, mice can get to it. Like Tyler Jones discovered in Tullamore when cleaning out the auger and it started raining mice,” Thackray tweeted attaching her video.

“People out here are struggling badly with them in our houses,” Jones told the Daily Mail Australia. “My 90-year-old mother-in-law is living out of an esky because it’s the only way she can mouse-proof her food.”

“Mice are in everything, roofs and walls eating wiring, cupboards, and pantries eating, nesting in and soiling in food and clothing, in cars and machinery chewing through wiring,” Jones stated. “The smell of dead mice is overwhelming, it’s everywhere.”

Farmers have pleaded with the Australian government to help eradicate millions of mice but they say there is no money in the budget for it. Homes and farms all across New South Wales have been invaded by swarms of rodents over the past few months destroying most of their crops. The mice have also overwhelmed southern Queensland. There are reports of the rodents getting into hospitals and biting patients as well . . .

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