So if I happen to end up in a ‘Florida Man fights off alligator, saves dog and kids’ headline in the next few weeks at least you know where I’m coming from with that.Īlligators and snakes aren’t the only creatures showing up in weird places due to Sally. Neither really seem to pose a threat yet but the 6-footer is currently chilling in the lake out front of an elementary school, a lake I also walk my dog past every single day. There’s a tiny one around 4ish feet and a little larger one that’s around 6-feet. That’s when our property became submerged and snakes and alligators began looking for a place to hunker down,” she said.Īpropos of nothing, I’ve noticed two gators have moved into my neighborhood in the past month. Today the tide came in off the bay side with the surge and the water rose so quickly from that side. It also caused the surrounding canals to overflow and fill the marshlands. “Last night it hit us from the land side so strong winds tore part of our roof off and caused power outages and other damages. I was just amazed at the size of this one,” she said. “We are aware that we have them out in our area as well as lots of poisonous snakes so we know not to walk out there in floodwaters. “I went upstairs to survey the damage to our property as well as the neighbors boat dock I happened to look down and see this giant in our yard,” She told CNN that snakes and alligators sought refuge from the storm. Tina Lambert Bennett from Gulf Shores, Alabama shared this clip of an enormous 12-foot alligator at her neighbor’s house. Over 500,000 Americans lost power due to Sally. The storm surge throws everything in flux. We were under a flood warning here for days and it was still nothing compared to what the coastal areas of Mississippi, Alabama, and the Florida Panhandle got hit with. I’m in Southwest Florida and it rained nonstop from mid-day Friday through Monday morning as Sally passed by at a glacial pace, dumping nonstop rain on this coast as it strengthened towards the panhandle. At one point, Sally was inching along at like 2 MPH dumping torrential rain. This was an incredibly slow-moving storm.
It has since been downgraded to a Tropical Storm but it brought catastrophic flash flooding from the rain and a powerful storm surge. Because many of the sites visited and described by the author have sadly disappeared, this work is an important time capsule for those interested in Louisiana’s past.Hurricane Sally made landfall at the Florida/Alabama border as a Category 2 storm. The degradation brought about by hurricanes and industry has changed forever the west-central coast of Louisiana. Three parishes receive major treatment in this volume and well over a hundred sites are explored. In the Petite Anse Project Ian Brown begins with a thorough discussion of the archaeology of Avery Island and then heads out to the other salt domes and surrounding marsh in exploring the rich culture history of the coastal plain. Indians made good use of the Salt Mine Valley site for making salt in late prehistoric times, and even earlier Indians used the island to erect earthen edifices, such as the Banana Bayou Mound. However, it was the presence of an active saline that made Avery Island attractive to both historic and prehistoric populations.
Live oaks bearing festoons of Spanish moss, fields plush with red hot peppers, snowy egrets building nesting beside the ponds, and alligators peering slyly above the murky waters are but a few of the elements that make this island a virtual Eden. Avery Island is known far and wide for its natural beauty.
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