The hurricane has brought many surprises to the states of the Southeast.

Most of these surprises are just destroyed homes (sorry). That said, some of them can be pretty cool — for example, there was that one guy who woke up to find that a sick statue had been deposited in his backyard.

In this case, a family returned to their hurricane-adled home to find that it had a new resident: a massive alligator.

This is Florida, so who knows? Maybe this sparked a lifelong friendship — or, let’s be honest, maybe the alligator just became dinner.