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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / August 2005Purrs and prayers
For all those involved with or affected by Hurricaine Katrina, furry and bare. Purrs and prayers that you make it through the storm safely with minimum damage to homes and property and no loss of life. Helen M > For all those involved with or affected by Hurricaine Katrina, furry and > bare. > > Purrs and prayers that you make it through the storm safely with minimum > damage to homes and property and no loss of life. sending purrs along too Such a scary situation, can't really begin to imagine how terrible it must be to have to leave and run like that I understand the winds are twice as strong as the ones that took out so much of the forests in Sweden last January, hard to understand when you're living in a climate that don't have extremes like that  Signaturelewe lewemi at yahoo dot se | cats' pics: photos.yahoo.com/lewemi >> For all those involved with or affected by Hurricaine Katrina, furry and >> bare. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >of the forests in Sweden last January, hard to understand when you're living >in a climate that don't have extremes like that I'm watching The Weather Channel, which just did the "latest" update. The winds are DOWN to 160 mph. It's close enough to New Orleans for the eye to appear on the weather radar, and landfall is expected sometime Monday morning (whether in the wee hours of the morning or during daylight, I don't know). Right now they're showing film of all the people evacuating New Orleans (including a cute couple with at least one kitty and at least one d-thing in the car), and a lot of people are apparently taking shelter in the Louisiana Superdome (people who have no way to get out, tourists stuck since the airport is already closed, etc). Last night on the news they were talking about a computer model from Louisiana State University that predicted there would be floodwater 18-20 feet deep in downtown N.O. if the city was hit by a category 4 storm. Katrina is currently a category 5, which is as high as you can get on the scale. I sure hope everyone who is able is well "out of Dodge" by now! (what do they do with the large animals during circumstances like this?) Jeanne Hedge, as directed by Natasha ============ http://www.jhedge.com >>> For all those involved with or affected by Hurricaine Katrina, furry and >>> bare. [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] >sometime Monday morning (whether in the wee hours of the morning or >during daylight, I don't know). Incidentally, I got curious a couple of days ago, and called the Nashville office of the National Weather Service to ask just what the definition of a hurricane's landfall is. The answer turned out to be the time and place where the eye comes ashore, so, by the time of the official landfall, close to half of the storm is already over land. Hurricanes can be over 500 miles in diameter. SignatureJohn F. Eldredge -- john@jfeldredge.com PGP key available from http://pgp.mit.edu "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria "Jeanne Hedge" <jhedge@rcn.com> wrote in message > I sure hope everyone who is able is well "out of Dodge" by now! (what > do they do with the large animals during circumstances like this?) Some of the ones that are rescued are taken in by nearby people that have similar animals. Like foster care. When we had our floods, they opened up the county fairgrounds in safe nearby counties for large animals. We did have a small "war" between the public safety types over a small herd of cows just inside the flood area. As in they were knee deep in water and the safety people didn't want to let anyone in to get them. The local owners of small horse trailers went in after them anyway and got them all out. It isn't like the safety people didn't have other things to worry about or were going to shoot the rescuers or anything. And we had tons of dogs and cats (and people) picked of roofs by helicopter. Lots of cows and horses left on high spots surrounded by water that were dropped feed etc. Remember not everyone is home or can get home when a disaster hits. Jo > For all those involved with or affected by Hurricaine Katrina, furry and > bare. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Helen M Amen! Joy >For all those involved with or affected by Hurricaine Katrina, furry and >bare. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > >Helen M Seconded. I have been watching coverage today, and thinking about all the animals left behind. May they find safe haven somewhere and be reunited with their loved humans. Ginger-lyn Home Pages: http://www.spiritrealm.com/summer/ http://www.angelfire.com/folk/glsummer (homepage & cats) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~summer/index.htm (genealogy) http://www.movieanimals.bravehost.com/ (The Violence Against Animals in Movies Website) |
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