Word: sheltering
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...close it down. More than 90 people were arrested a few weeks ago after groups of youths fought running battles with police, throwing bottles and cobblestones and burning homemade barricades. The riot, a rare occurrence in this normally placid Scandinavian country, was prompted by police arriving to demolish a shelter deemed unsafe by the authorities...
...military fortress during World War II, and the 121-room Amara has housed itself in two former barracks. You'll be surprised at just how comfy they can be when someone besides an army engineer is in charge of the design. Two colonial-era buildings above an air-raid shelter are now home to 20 suites; a third contains a spa. The main building features a rooftop infinity pool and 91 rooms. Scattered elsewhere are 10 elegantly furnished villas...
Meanwhile, the LA/SPCA is gearing up for the possibility that it will have to use its own evacuation plan, in which shelter residents and staff would be relocated to Houston in the event of a Category 3 or greater storm. "For Katrina, we transferred 263 animals," Rigney says. "And they all made it safely...
There's no way of knowing how many companion animals were left behind when Hurricane Katrina forced the evacuation of New Orleans. The Louisiana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, which operates the city's animal shelter, estimates that 70,000 pets remained in the city during the storm; of those, about 15,000 were rescued. Only about 20% of the rescued animals were reunited with their owners, says LA/SPCA disaster preparedness coordinator Heather Rigney...
...pickup points scattered around New Orleans. The animals - provided they're in carriers - will be allowed on buses used to ferry evacuees to other designated sites outside the city; from there, the state takes over, using buses to move people to a network of shelters and what Sneed calls "climate controlled vehicles" - namely, tractor trailers - to haul their cats and dogs. Ideally, he says, owners and pets will be sheltered in close proximity; displaced people will have, if not the comforts of home, at least the comfort of a beloved pet. And shelter operators won't be saddled with...