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A man from Stuart, Florida left his home for 3 days during Hurricane Milton last week in order to stay with family and when he returned he was shocked to find an alligator in his pool chilling out like it owned the place.
As a fellow Floridian and someone who evacuated for several days due to Hurricane Milton, I can immediately see the problem as clear as day… No cage on the pool. I also like to live dangerously and don’t have a cage on my pool. Sure, there might be entire months of the year when there are so many insects swarming off the lake behind our house that swimming in the pool isn’t an option. And sure, I’ve found snakes and turtles in there that crawled up out of the lake. But a pool cage kills the view!
With that in mind, I’m not sure why this guy doesn’t have that tiny pool covered because a cage wouldn’t impact the view in the backyard at all. It’s just trees… And the trees aren’t big enough to keep the alligators out of the pool.
Upon discovering the 4-foot alligator, resident Emile de Cuba called the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission who swung by to remove the gator from the swimming pool. I’m actually a bit shocked how quickly they were able to get there to remove it given how that part of the state was battered by storms and tornadoes, I’d have guessed that every emergency worker around would have had their hands full.
De Cuba told WPTV “The yard is pretty guarded, we have a wooden fence on one side and a chain-link fence on the other with a bunch of vegetation. The wildlife officer told me that it probably went over the chain-link fence because they can climb those.” Gotta cage that pool, my dude!
Following Hurricane Milton though, alligators weren’t just in pools, they were everywhere. There was a viral video going around, posted on MotorBiscuit.com, showing a big ol’ alligator attacking a truck driving through flood waters:
That’s reason #1,000 you should NEVER enter flood waters after a hurricane!