Hurricanes, tornadoes, flooding and fire are the most common natural disasters in the state of Florida. Large animals were killed during 1992’s Hurricane Andrew by collapsing barns, electrocution, kidney failure secondary to dehydration and being hit and killed on roadways or tangled in barbed wire after escaping from their pasture.
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