By Mindy
Weisberger, Senior Writer | September 11, 2017 05:18pm ET
As
Hurricane Irma pounded Florida over the weekend, it brought drenching rainfall
and historic flooding across the state, particularly along the shoreline.
But in
Sarasota Bay in Manatee County, a pair of massive manatees were temporarily
left high and dry.
A unique
combination of storm conditions allowed Irma to siphon water away from the
shore toward the storm's center. This stranded a pair of manatees on the sand
where they wallowed helplessly until a group of people came to their rescue,
according to reports posted on social media.
Irma made
landfall in Florida as a Category 4 storm, with winds gusting up to 120 mph
(195 km/h). The hurricane's winds were so powerful that they pushed water away
from beaches, first in the Bahamas and then later in the Gulf Coast, while low
pressure at Irma's center hoovered up even more water from coastal areas,
leaving broad expanses of the seabed exposed, The
Washington Post reported.
Footage
of Tampa Bay showed a vast expanse of exposed sand, with two dogs frolicking in
an area that would normally be underwater, local resident Tim Scheu said in a
tweet.
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