Tuesday, December 1, 2020

Man Evacuates For Hurricane Late, Ends Up Sheltering With Lions


Man, you'd think that the whole not evacuating for a hurricane on time couldn't be more stressful than it already is at surface level, but then you come across a story like this where a guy ends up having to shelter with lions. Turns out big cats really know how to stink up the place too. 

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Text - r/tifu + Join u/nuqlick • 3d 1 21 e 2 TIFU by not evacuating for a hurricane early enough...and ending up in a shelter with lions L (I shared this story before on reddit a long time ago, but someone told me it belongs in this sub!) This happened within the past few years. Not gonna name the hurricane or the zoo, because I don't want the zoo to get hate mail about the treatment of animals or anything when really they did a phenomenal job with this being during a hurricane, and don't wanna

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Text - So, we (my brother [M22], his girlfriend[F22], and I [F18], all living together) had been looking at the "spaghetti models" and thought the hurricane was going to miss us, but about a day before it was going to hit, we realized we were fucked. We were reluctant to evacuate because we had no money and didn't want to miss work, but we began to panic when we realized the roads were all clogged and it was too late to get out.

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Text - Now, most people in this situation would probably go to whatever public shelter the local officials were running, but this wasn't an option for us. Turns out that these shelters were ID'ing people on the way in, and certain convicted felons were not allowed in, for public safety concerns. My brother was a convicted felon (different story) who was barred. They offered to house such people in the prison instead until the hurricane passed, but he was adamant that he was never going back ther

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Text - The hours passed, with us panicking and unsure what to do, until his girlfriend got a crazy idea. Her best friend was a zookeeper at the zoo just down the road, and she remembered hearing how the animals would be safe in the super-secure concrete nighthouses they were all secured in. She called her best friend (who was already out of state and evacuated) to see if we'd be able to somehow stay in an animal nighthouse, since we had nowhere else to go and it would be safe. It took a lot of b

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Text - Reluctantly, after promising not to tell anyone and his girlfriend crying about how we were all going to die, she sighed and agreed and gave us the access code to the employee-only gate and instructions for how to get in and lock the door behind us. I was shocked she agreed, but the keeper and my brother's girlfriend must have really trusted each other. So we set off, with 4 days' worth of snacks and drinks, some electronics for entertainment, and sleeping bags, and walked half a mile dow

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Text - It was certainly a secure concrete bunke..but the first thing that hit us when we entered was the stench. It was almost unbearable. I had never thought of lions as particularly smelly animals before, but good god...it smelled like rotten meat and the most horridly foul cat litterbox times a million. We were all retching as we came in and spread our out sleeping bags on our "side" of the enclosure, which was probably about 20 feet by 10 feet. We were separated from 14 lions by nothing more

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Text - It was much worse at night. Apparently the keepers had set a timer before they left to turn out the lights at a certain time to keep the lions on their regular day/night cycle. It was just about pitch-black, and for those that don't know...lion's eyes glow in the dark. Seeing those eyes staring at us in the night was one of the most terrifying experiences of my life. Well, long story short, we stayed in there for a few days and then walked home. The whole place was pretty much still evacu

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