Mass rodent death of NYC Rats during Ida

kevin arnold

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Can’t they swim? I would have figured there would be rats running all over the place to get away from the flood waters before they got hemmed up.

Rats are adept swimmers. But many were likely overmatched by the sudden drenching, a record-breaking 3.15 inches of rain in a single hour. “I would guess hundreds of thousands died, easily,” Corrigan estimated, including “an entire generation of pups,” or rat babies
 
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