This is horrible...

[RitaZ.]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WEATHER/09/17/hurricane.ivan/index.html

 

[BrerMom]

True, it's horrible, but this section made me smile:



Island flooded
In Gulf Shores, the grounds of the Alabama Gulf Shores Zoo were littered with wood and other debris. Most animals were evacuated before the storm, but authorities were looking for several deer and six alligators that hadn't been evacuated and have been seen wading -- or swimming -- around the flooded island.

Among them is Chucky, a 1,000-pound, 12-foot-long alligator, and zoo officials spent three hours fruitlessly searching by canoe for him Thursday afternoon.

"We cannot send people in to assess more of the damages until we find the big boy," a zoo worker said.