Flooding left behind by Tropical Storm Debby in South Carolina has led wild animals to some unusual places.
Intense rainfall and flooding from Tropical Storm Debby have caused some alligators to make themselves at home in South Carolina residents’ yards.
In Bluffton, locals spotted several alligators swimming through their flooded neighborhood. One video shared by Adrienne LeBlanc features a resident narrating an alligator swimming outside their bedroom window.
“I can’t think of anything more terrifying at the moment than having a big a** gator come right up on my lawn,” she says in the clip as the rain continues to fall and the alligator wades in the flooded waters.
“It’s like National Geographic in our backyard right now,” she told CNN about the encounter.
Another video that has garnered attention features an alligator crossing a street in Hilton Head. Robert Moose Rini, who recorded the animal on Monday, Aug. 5, told FOX Weather that he thinks the alligator in his video is about 7 feet long.
“Imagine walking around the corner and seeing that sucker,” he said.
Alligators aren’t the only animals out of place due to the extreme weather conditions. On Aug. 4, a catfish was found in a Florida driveway. In footage of the fish, the creature wiggles from the driveway into deeper puddles.
Parts of the south have already seen over a foot of rainfall from Tropical Storm Debby, according to NBC News.
CNN reports that Debby first made landfall in Florida on Monday, Aug. 5, as a Category 1 hurricane before becoming a tropical storm and making landfall in South Carolina.
