The remnants of Hurricane Harvey continue to plunge rainwater on the Houston arena . Flooding is only expected to get worse this week , with National Weather Serviceflood warningslasting until Wednesday eventide . And humans are n’t the only ones being affected by the storm ’s wrath .
Texas news outlets are already cover alligators and fire ant settlement floating through the water . Even a well - knownbat colonyhas fall dupe . But not all of the report are true — many of the same old viral look-alike toss off up whenever metropolis alluvion .
Harvey ’s historic implosion therapy really has dredged up animals , reported by theMeyerland Patchsite and predicted byThe Atlantic . The Houston Chronicle reports that Christy Kroboth from Houston ’s Gator Squad was already call off in tocapture a five - footalligator ( five feet is clean runty give how large they canactually grow ) .
Others are report that bats living beneath Waugh Bridge , a Houston tourist finish complete with a bat - take in political platform , are shin to survive and washing up dead .
One of the more shocking videos to emerge from the flooding boast colonies of fire ant floating to protect themselves . During flood , the ants mould float island of stinging painfulness . One cogitation , issue in 2011 in the Journal of Experimental Biology , explains that the ant shape the raft ’s shape with their legs , and fill in the spaces with little ants , permit for more connecter to concur the quite a little together and better buoyancy .
And look , guys . The emmet are now just fundament from house.pic.twitter.com/rt2aU7Uvm3
— Mike Hixenbaugh ( @Mike_Hixenbaugh)August 28 , 2017
But many of the photos that might bulge up on your timeline are fakes , mean only to bring on scare and pawl . The Fort Bend County ’s Sheriff ’s Office shared the former photos below , before Harvey made landfall , only to monish residents of the potentiality for life-threatening visitor . They ’re appearing now as if they were takenduring Harvey . Should these photos pop up on your news feeds and timelines — they’re old .
Gators and flooding advice via@txgatorsquad : bear them to be displaced . Simply looking for mellow land . entrust alone until water recedespic.twitter.com/nN1B5jvMyV
— FBCSO Texas ( @FBCSO)August 24 , 2017
And then there ’s this classic :
https://twitter.com/embed/status/902048241646280704
Snopes debunk this image back in 2011 during Hurricane Irene , and again in 2016 during Hurricane Matthew — there are not yet confirmed stories of shark swimming down highways .
There are enough material , horrible and heartbreaking image to go around — and there really are gators and ants floating around Houston . The situation is painful , but it ’s worth checking the author to insure that you ’re helping spread information and not add to the panic .
[ viaMeyerland Patch ]
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