Stormy weather on Austin’s Lady Bird Lake interrupted a fishing outing when two paddleboarders came across an animal near the South Congress bridge.
At first, they assumed it was a dog, but a closer look showed a raccoon being battered by heavy rain and a strong current.
What happened?
The trip started out routinely: Austin paddleboarders Tucker and Owen were on the lake to fish and film in stormy conditions when they spotted an animal coming from a tunnel beneath the South Congress bridge. According to KXAN, they zoomed in with their cameras and realized it was a raccoon in distress, not a dog.
They then saw how much danger it was in. Tucker said the current kept dragging the raccoon underwater, so the two hurried over before it vanished beneath the surface…