USGatorland CEO on Hurricane Dorian: If a gator is sitting in your pool, “it ain't one of ours”

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ORLANDO, FLORIDA, UNITED STATES - 2019/09/01: People leave Gatorland following a rain shower as Hurricane Dorian approaches. The Category 5 storm is expected to come dangerously close to the Florida coast as early as tomorrow night. (Photo by Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

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Residents watch 9-foot swells generated by Hurricane Dorian as they slam into the jetty at Lighthouse Point Park in Ponce Inlet, Fla., Monday, Sept. 2, 2019. Dorian is forecast to move north off the east coast of Florida.

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Owner C.B. Yadav stands outside his Cumberland Inn & Suites hotel as employees board up the windows in preparation for Hurricane Dorian on Monday, Sept. 2, 2019, in St. Mary's. Mandatory evacuation has been issued for the area east of Interstate 95 but the hotel is staying open for employees and emergency workers.

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Waves crash onto Hutchinson Island in St. Lucie County as Hurricane Dorian poses an increasing threat to Florida's Treasure Coast on Sunday, Sept. 1, 2019.

ORLANDO, Fla. — If you are wandering around Central Florida after Hurricane Dorian passes and come across an alligator, it didn’t come from Gatorland.

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The attraction’s CEO Mark McHugh posted a video Saturday on Facebook that assured area residents that the park has been working to secure their animals — which include hundreds of birds, some bobcats and panthers — in anticipation of the approaching storm.

The video had racked up more than 46,000 views since it was posted early Saturday evening.

“Rest assured, if you see an alligator swimming down your street or sitting in your pool, it ain’t one of ours,” McHugh says in the video on the company’s Facebook page, which has more than 200,000 likes.

The park’s alligators will likely ride out any storm that comes through Central Florida under water, with an occasional trip to the surface to grab some air.

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One city official called it a "scooternado."

Meanwhile, park staff will stay at Gatorlando during the storm, ready to assess and repair damage to the park once winds drop below tropical-storm levels.

As for the gators, these storms are nothing new for them, McHugh said in the video.

“They have been around for 75 million years,” he said. “It ain’t their first rodeo with a nasty storm.”

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