Fishflies are the norm around the water front throughout Windsor-Essex, but when Kelly Rivard woke up to find they'd taken over her driveway, things got a little weird.
She lives one street away from Lake St. Clair on George Cr. in Belle River.
Rivard and her husband were expecting to get hit, with a street light at the end of their driveway, they get hit every year.
"We knew the day before, we had a few and I thought uh oh, here we go. I joked with my husband, I don't care if you have to shoot the lights out because we usually get them pretty bad, but nothing like this," she says.
Nothing could prepare them for what they found, according to Rivard.
"My husband wakes up, and all I heard was a big screech. I woke up and I say, what's the matter? I've never heard him scream like that before. He says, 'no, you have to see it out there.' I looked outside and I couldn't believe it. It was just crazy, there was millions," she says.
Rivard says they started with a hose, but at some point it just wasn't cutting it.
"I'm like, that's not going to do it. So he turned the power washer on and it was just crazy, like a big sheet," Rivard says.
When all was said and done, Rivard's husband was left with a pile of fishflies the width of their driveway and half a foot deep.
She says he begrudgingly bagged up their remains.