Southerners are being warned to beware of unexpected alligators in their yards and pools as Tropical Storm Debby drenches the East Coast.
Several people in South Carolina have filmed massive alligators stalking their streets and splashing in backyard pools since Debby made landfall on Monday.
“There is one that is two and a half meters tall” Robert Moose Rini he said from inside his car on Hilton Head Island on Monday. “Imagine walking around the corner and seeing that fool.”
The reptile is seen slowly crossing the road before landing in a puddle next to a flower bed.
As the shocked witness continued driving, he saw an alligator crawling along the sidewalk.
“There’s an eight-foot shark,” Robert Moose Rini said from inside his car on Hilton Head Island on Monday. “Imagine turning the corner and seeing that fish.”
The reptile slowly crossed the street before landing in a puddle.
The witness saw an alligator crawling along a sidewalk.
Adrienne LeBlanc He filmed an alligator swimming in an overflowing lagoon in Bluffton, South Carolina.
She filmed the video from her bedroom as she watched the alligator “crossing” into her house.
“Ugh, I can’t think of anything scarier right now than having a huge alligator approaching my lawn,” she said while capturing the footage.
LeBlanc later filmed the “alligator-infested moat surrounding my house.”
“They love coming here, that’s for sure,” he says. “I mean, they loved it even before the water level came up… This is amazing. They never, ever, ever get this close.”
LeBlanc said he thought it would “take weeks for all this water to recede.”
Adrienne LeBlanc filmed an alligator swimming in an overflowing lagoon in Bluffton, South Carolina
“Ugh, I can’t think of anything scarier right now than having a huge alligator coming into my yard,” LeBlanc said while capturing the footage.
Christian Sudduth of Hilton Head saw an eight-foot alligator and nearly ran over the reptile.
“I was lucky to see it,” he said. The Island Package.
Another Hilton Head resident spotted an alligator swimming in his backyard pool on Monday.
Matt Kraycar of K&K Wildlife Services said the phenomenon is not unusual as the reptiles are forced out of their natural habitats, but he doesn’t expect them to remain there for long.
“They’ll go back to where there’s food and where they feel comfortable,” he told The Island Packet. “For now, they’re just trying to find a safe place.”
Storm Debby has continued to pick up speed north and northeast from the Carolinas, though it continues to bring heavy rain, flash flooding, and the threat of tornadoes (pictured: Charleston, South Carolina, on Tuesday)
Mid-Atlantic states and parts of New York and New England will see significant rainfall that could cause dangerous flooding over the weekend (pictured: Charlotte, North Carolina, on Thursday)
Experts are warning locals not to swim in flood waters as alligators and snakes may be nearby.
Storm Debby continues to pick up pace, moving north and northeast from the Carolinas while still bringing heavy rain, flash flooding, and a tornado threat.
The Mid-Atlantic states and parts of New York and New England will see significant rainfall that could cause dangerous flooding over the weekend, such as on parts of Interstate 95 near larger cities, said Jon Porter, Accuweather’s chief meteorologist.
An active stretch of tornadoes could be possible Friday from eastern Virginia to Vermont.
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