As flood waters rise, animals await rescue

May 20, 2014

As flood waters rise, animals await rescue

Matt Bracken 0 Comment Nation, The Baltimore Sun, Weather Animals, flooding, rescue

See images of animals attempting to survive rising flood waters.

: A rat floats on a slipper on a flooded street in Fuzhou, east China’s Fujian province, on October 3, 2005. Typhoon Longwang brought heavy rain to Fuzhou and the flood submerged many low-lying areas. (Reuters photo)

: People row boats past an islet on which buffaloes have been stranded in a flooded area of the Sonitpur district in the northeastern Indian state of Assam on July 1, 2012. Incessant heavy rains in northeast India have caused massive flooding and landslides, killing more than 60 people. (Reuters photo)

: A crayfish appears on a flooded highway near the Spanish northeastern city of Castelldefels on October 10, 2002. Heavy rains hit the Catalan region during the last two days, causing floods, damages and traffic problems but no injuries. (REUTERS/Rafa Huertas)

: An emergency worker rescues a cow trapped in the flooded village of Smirnovka in Russia’s Kemerovo region in Siberia, on April 17, 2004. About 2,300 houses in the region remain flooded and 1,500 people evacuated, Russian Interfax agency said on Sunday. (REUTERS/Sergei Gavrilenko)

: A horse stands in floodwaters from Hurricane Katrina in St. Bernard Parish near New Orleans on September 3, 2005. U.S. President George W. Bush ordered more troops to secure New Orleans on Saturday as rescuers evacuated thousands of desperate refugees and closed two huge shelters plagued by murder, rape and chaos. (REUTERS/David J. Phillip)

: A Pakistani man carries his sheep down a flooded road after a heavy downpour in the provincial capital of the Punjab, Lahore, on July 24, 2001. (REUTERS/Mohsin Raza)

: A stranded mouse rests on a stick next to the rising waters of river Yamuna in New Delhi on June 19, 2013. (REUTERS/Anindito Mukherjee)

: Gophers line the city sidewalks after their homes were flooded in the East Village area of Calgary, Alberta on June 22, 2013. (REUTERS/Todd Korol)

: Chickens perch on the roof of a hennery to escape rising floodwaters after Typhoon Utor hit Maoming, Guangzhou province on August 15, 2013. Typhoon Utor hit China’s southern Guangdong and Guangxi provinces before easing to a tropical storm. (Reuters photo)

: Swans swim near riverside properties partially submerged in floodwaters at Henley-on-Thames in southern England, on January 13, 2014. (REUTERS/Toby Melville)

: An aerial view shows stranded cattle in the flooded region of Ballivian province in the Beni department on February 8, 2014. Torrential rain and floods in Bolivia have killed 38 people. (REUTERS/David Mercado)

: A man carries cow dung cakes in a basket as he wades through the flooded banks of the river Ganges in the northern Indian city of Allahabad on July 31, 2013. (REUTERS/Jitendra Prakash)

: An aerial view shows horses at a flooded area in Bogota on November 19, 2010. Heavy rains around Colombia have killed 136 people and left 1,190,000 people homeless so far this year, authorities said. (REUTERS / Fredy Builes)

: A dog and a woman are seen in a flooded courtyard as water from the Prypyat river overflows its banks during spring flooding in the village of Khlupin, some 168 miles south of Minsk, on April 15, 2013. (REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko)

: A mouse rides on the back of a frog in floodwaters in the northern Indian city of Lucknow on June 30, 2006. (REUTERS/Pawan Kumar)

: Trees covered in spider webs are seen in the flood affected areas of K.N. Shah, located near Dadu in Pakistan’s Sindh province, on December 7, 2010. (Reuters photo)

: A snake swims as floodwaters slowly rise in Holly Grove, Ark., on May 10, 2011. (REUTERS/Eric Thayer)

: Cows stand on a flooded field in the municipality of Cajica near Bogota on May 21, 2011. (REUTERS/John Vizcaino)

: Ducks are seen on top of pieces of wood from a house damaged by the floods in Sanjiangkou village, Zhejiang province on June 18, 2011. (REUTERS/Carlos Barria)

: An abandoned dog sits on a concrete pipe at a flooded area in Bangkok on November 16, 2011. (REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang)

: A man climbs on the roof of a house to feed pigs they rescued during heavy floods in the village of Vojskova, on May 19, 2014. Communities in Serbia and Bosnia battled to protect towns and power plants on Monday from rising flood waters and landslides that have devastated swathes of both countries and killed dozens of people. (REUTERS/Srdjan Zivulovic)

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