Without help, these creatures would have been in grave danger.
Thousands of people and animals were displaced by the terrible weather in 2016, when over 23 inches of rain triggered catastrophic flash floods in numerous southern states, including Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, and Mississippi.
In the midst of chaos, two men in Hernando, Mississippi, saw that there were animals in need and decided to take action.
Frankie Williams, a 26-year-old plumber who also works for a landscaping firm, told The Dodo at the time, “My brother and I kept observing various animals make their way out of the flooded woods into a field in front of our house.”
“We had a small boat that we might use to investigate the flooded forests. We saved numerous field mice, ground shrews, and rabbits while driving through flooded fields on our route to the woods “he said
Raccoons were able to find protection by ascending higher into trees, but opossums and armadillos were stuck on patches of ground with little choice but to cling to anything they could find to avoid being washed away by the swelling floods, according to Williams.
So Williams and his brother traveled around, placing every struggling animal they came across into the boat. Once the water levels began to lower, the animals were released.
“I grew up with a great passion for the outdoors,” Williams explained. “[I] hate to see any animal suffer.
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