Florida flamingos ride out storm having ‘hurricane party in the bathroom’

Flamingos at Florida’s Sunken Gardens have taken shelter on the park’s rest room throughout Hurricane Ian (Image: Sunken Gardens)

A flamboyance of flamingos hunkered down inside a park rest room Wednesday as Hurricane Ian tore by the state of Florida.

The flamingos at St Petersburg’s Sunken Gardens waited out the Class 4 hurricane’s highly effective wind gusts and flooding from the security a WC contained in the park.

‘Our animals are secure w/employees on web site to see them by the storm,’ Sunken Gardens tweeted Wednesday.

‘The flamingos are having a hurricane get together within the rest room; consuming, ingesting, & dancing.’

🦩🌀We’re hunkered down! Our animals are secure w/employees on web site to see them by the storm.
The flamingos are having a hurricane get together within the rest room; consuming, ingesting, & dancing. 😉

Keep secure on the market! pic.twitter.com/ejCuuRUdma

— SunkenGardens (@SunkenGardens) September 28, 2022

The beloved birds have been made comfy within the rest room, the place they have been left with an enormous meals dish and a water dish, images shared to social media present.

Sunken Gardens is St Pete’s oldest museum and a ‘botanical paradise’ amid a bustling metropolis, based on the backyard’s web site. The basic attraction has been owned by town since 1911, and is house to a number of the oldest tropical crops within the area.

The roadside attraction can be house to flowers and animals like butterflies, turtles, and birds, just like the flamingos.

Flamingos take refuge in a rest room at Miami-Metro Zoo throughout a hurricane on September 14, 1999 (Image: Information makers)

Hurricane Ian got here crashing down in southern Florida Wednesday with 150 mph winds, storm surges, flooding and mass destruction. Nonetheless on Friday, hundreds of thousands of Florida residents are with out electrical energy and are stranded of their properties amid the floodwaters.

The photograph of the Sunken Gardens flamingos huddled within the rest room is harking back to a now-famous photograph taken 30 years in the past throughout one other catastrophic hurricane in Southern Florida.

A photograph taken by Ron Magill, at Zoo Miami, confirmed dozens of pink flamingos clustered collectively equally within the rest room throughout Hurricane Andrew, which was a historic Class 5 storm.

Magill shared the photograph to Twitter, noting ‘of the numerous pictures I've captured in my life, none is extra iconic than this one.’

Of the numerous pictures I've captured in my life, none is extra iconic than this one. I can’t imagine it has been 30 years since Hurricane Andrew devastated South Florida. I’ll always remember capturing this picture of the zoos flamingos huddled within the girls restroom for defense. pic.twitter.com/iACXIBivSm

— Ron Magill (@RonMagill) August 24, 2022

In keeping with officers with Sunken Gardens, the flamingos stay secure inside the lavatory, whereas different animals of their care, such because the tortoises, have been moved into indoor lodging at some stage in the storm.

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