Don't mind that noise, there's just a frog under the house.

Quite an amusing story. We had a fuse trip on the pool filter earlier this week for no reason. I had headed home yesterday to meet with an electrician in the afternoon and after he left I heard a tree frog croaking. It was coming from the drain at the front of the house. I had no idea how he got in there since there are no openings other than the roof gutters which flow directly into the pipes and out to the street. It must have climbed all the way up there from the street. Still, I could hear him, but not see him, and no way to get him out of there, so I headed off back to work. Later that afternoon the wife hears it when she got home. She searched the garage then called me. I told her it was in the drain.

This afternoon I was doing some work on the pool after it had been without power for a couple of days and I did a quick backwash which sends water out the storm drain. Shortly after I headed off to the shops to get some groceries when I looked over to where the drain connects to the street and there was the green tree frog lying in the street. I have no idea where the drains are all connected under the property but the pool drain where he came out was on the other side of the house from the drain he was croaking from last night. I suspect the drains are interconnected but he must have been wandering around in there overnight and happened to get in-line with the flow from the backwash and flushed out. I stopped the car and got out to check if it was still alive. It was weak, but alive so I found a cool shaded rock and set him down. When I got back from the shops he'd moved on, so hopefully he makes a full recovery.