Good evening.
“Sarasota Bay had beached manatees in the bottom of the dry bay bed.”
There’s video of this...
So everything drained. Bayous, canals etc
When Tampa Bay drained it stranded two manatees. (That I know of)
A guy who was boarding up his condo for the hurricane near Davis Island saw that 2 manatees were stranded.
(Close to the house Jeter built)
He got eight of his buddies, two blue roof canvas and two Ford pickup trucks, drove out to the middle of the Bay, rolled the critters on the tarps, lifted them up into the trucks. It was very difficult even for those big guys.
Took the animals to the Florida Aquarium to ride out the storm.
5.56mm
I saw video of people dragging stranded manatees. Another of people strolling out into Tampa Bay. Gobsmacked, amazing.