Tom Baldwin knew his phone wasn't ringing...but didn't know why.
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"The phone guy came out and looked at it and said something had chewed through the wire," said Baldwin.
He called a pest control company. "Yeah, they said it's roof rats."
Normally there's an offseason for rodent activity, but not this year.
"The populations have grown to a level it's never been anywhere close to over the last 35 years," said Raleigh Jenkins with ABC Home and Commercial Services.
Jenkins said, "Since Harvey, there has been a big change. There has been a huge increase in rodents that were nesting in other places that have up and moved into attics."
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Flooding brought the rats inside, Jenkins wants to keep them out.
"I can look at a house and in a couple seconds go - problem, problem, problem, problem," said Jenkins.
Jenkins says rodent proofing is all about plugging holes, "A mouse needs the size of a nickel and if you can stick a nickel in there, a rat or mouse will be able to get in there too."
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