There are between 1,000 and 1 million rats in Texas, according to a rodent expert. Some of them live in the park that hosts Houston’s annual Christmas tree lighting.
On the nights before the Christmas tree lighting, all through Hermann Square Park, rats were scurrying, scrounging for garbage in the dark.
As Houston city officials prepared for the annual holiday event slated for Saturday, they were “aware of the rodent problem in the reflection pool and park area outside City Hall,” according to a spokesperson for Mayor John Whitmire.
KPRC first reported “dozens of rodents” living in the park outside City Hall. Images broadcast by the Houston television station — and shared by the outlet’s content partner, Grizzy’s Hood News — showed 17 rat sightings, and it was unclear if individual rats appeared in multiple video clips…