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...such a surplus of available votes materializes, it could be a windfall for Reeves. Only the election will tell if Reeves can hold his seat, or if the first half of 2007 was just the calm before the storm...
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...
...chances of that happening are higher than normal. The National Hurricane Center has forecast a busy Atlantic tropical storm season, with 13 to 17 named storms. Three to five of those could reach Category 3 - Katrina was a Category 3 storm when it struck the Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005 - or higher, and under the city's new policy a storm that size headed for New Orleans would trigger a mandatory evacuation order...
...emergency authorities are the people who stayed in New Orleans for Katrina because they refused to leave their pets behind. "To a lot of people, these animals are their children," Sneed says. A survey conducted after Katrina found that 44% of those who chose to ride out the storm did it because they could not evacuate with their animals. Should another evacuation be called, he says, "we have to make it more practical for people to leave than to stay. If one of the reasons people stayed was because they had pets, then we have to be able to assure...
...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...