--- title: Florida Man Finds Frogs in Wind Chimes Before Hurricane description: A Florida man found some stealthy frogs taking shelter ahead of a hurricane in the tubes of his wind chimes in his yard. canonical: https://time.com/5667587/hurricane-dorian-florida-man-frogs/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-09-03T18:55:51.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:00:08.642Z og:title: Florida Man Finds Frogs in Wind Chimes Before Hurricane og:description: Gimme shelter! og:url: https://time.com/5667587/hurricane-dorian-florida-man-frogs/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1c401855cd67c4c9/698a024e97cdff90336b9788/florida-man-finds-frogs-hiding-in-wind-chimes.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: Four Javan tree frogs sitting on a plant, Indonesia og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Florida Man Finds Frogs in Wind Chimes Before Hurricane twitter:description: Gimme shelter! twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1c401855cd67c4c9/698a024e97cdff90336b9788/florida-man-finds-frogs-hiding-in-wind-chimes.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Florida Man Finds Stealthy Frogs Hiding Out From the Hurricane in Wind Chimes > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Sep 3, 2019 6:55 PM UTC  kuritafsheen—Getty Images/RooM RF  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Sep 3, 2019 6:55 PM UTC A Florida man discovered that he wasn’t the only person seeking shelter at his home ahead of [Hurricane Dorian](https://time.com/5666978/hurricane-dorian-speed/) — a group of [plucky frogs](https://time.com/4798314/transparent-frog-new-species-amazon/) were also taking refuge in the surprising cover of a set of wind chimes in his yard. In a post on Twitter, @PooltoyWolf revealed that he found the frogs when he went to put away their wind chimes before the hurricane arrived. Upon picking up the wind chimes, he discovered that there were some stealthy frogs hiding in the tube of nearly every wind chime, apparently also looking for some shelter from the impending storm. In a later tweet, @PooltoyWolf shared that the frogs, who were all “safe and accounted for” later left the insulation of the wind chimes for the safe space of the “leafy palm fronds behind our backyard pool.” See the intrepid frogs in the many states of their wind chimes habitat below. > [](https://twitter.com/PooltoyWolf/status/1168678031482920960) > [](https://twitter.com/PooltoyWolf/status/1168681109762248704) > [](https://twitter.com/PooltoyWolf/status/1168728422299906048) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5667587/hurricane-dorian-florida-man-frogs/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5667587/hurricane-dorian-florida-man-frogs/"},"headline":"Florida Man Finds Stealthy Frogs Hiding Out From the Hurricane in Wind Chimes","datePublished":"2019-09-03T18:55:51.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:00:08.642Z","description":"Gimme shelter!","url":"https://time.com/5667587/hurricane-dorian-florida-man-frogs/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1c401855cd67c4c9/698a024e97cdff90336b9788/florida-man-finds-frogs-hiding-in-wind-chimes.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1c401855cd67c4c9/698a024e97cdff90336b9788/florida-man-finds-frogs-hiding-in-wind-chimes.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Four Javan tree frogs sitting on a plant, Indonesia","caption":"Four Javan tree frogs sitting on a plant, Indonesia","creditText":"kuritafsheen—Getty Images/RooM RF","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5667587/hurricane-dorian-florida-man-frogs/","name":"Florida Man Finds Stealthy Frogs Hiding Out From the Hurricane in Wind Chimes"}}]}] ```