It is common for strong hurricanes to displace wildlife, and the FWC issued a warning in 2022 that alligators, snakes and bears could be seen in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian, which hit southwest Florida as a Category 4 storm in September of that year.

Hurricane Helene has made landfall in Florida as a Category 4 storm. It is the strongest hurricane on record to slam into Florida’s Big Bend. You can track Helene’s path with CNN’s storm tracker. • A sprawling storm: Helene is one of the largest storms in the Gulf of Mexico in the last century,