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Old September 8th 17, 12:46 AM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
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On 9/7/2017 7:22 PM, Joy wrote:
On 9/7/2017 1:46 PM, dgk wrote:
On Thu, 7 Sep 2017 10:00:57 -0400, jmcquown
wrote:

Are you planning to evacuate for Hurricane Irma?Â* Your mother and Marlo
with her along with Baby and all the cats?

There are people from Florida already moving, booking motels and hotels
(pet friendly) and travelling well ahead of the hurricane.Â* It hasn't
even hit the States yet.

Got any plans for your mom and the cats?

Jill


We're discussing it. We're unlikely to leave totally but we are
considering going to the nearby shelter. I'm researching that now. For
a normal hurricane we'd just stay put, but this one could be real
trouble. I can't leave Mom, and she really can't do a long drive.
Maybe we could fly, but the cats are an issue.

I don't know if we can take the cats to the local shelter and the ones
where you can take pets have fairly limited openings. What we might do
is lock the cats in the walk-in closet with plenty of food and water,
and two litter boxes, and we head to the shelter, hopefully for a day
or at most two. Mom says that things are really impassible after a
hurricane. That wasn't the case back in NYC, but she lived through
Wilma, which went right through our town.

If she's right, that's a mess. But I can't really forsee a condition
where I couldn't walk from that shelter back to the house. It's a long
walk but I play two hours of tennis most mornings so hoping over
downed trees is certainly doable. Downed power lines is something else
however.

These are wood frame houes. If I remember the Three Little Pigs
correctly, that's better than straw, but not as good as brick.

My cousin's wife was just operated on and they really have to stay.
They live two blocks away from me and hopefully my cousin could check
on the house. We don't know if the phones willl even be working
tkough.

We're set for a normal siege, lots of water, batteries, canned food,
and solar chargers. But if the roof is blown off and the walls come
down, well, that's another issue.

Thanks for thinking of us. We'll try to keep in touch, but I don't
know how to access newsgroups on a cell phone. Maybe I can use that
Facebook thing.


My prayers and thoughts are with all of you.

Your comment about the Three Little Pigs reminded me that the opposite
of their story holds true for earthquakes.Â* I realize that hurricanes
are something else entirely.Â* I've lived in Southern California all my
life, as did my Dad.Â* He pointed out that in a severe earthquake a brick
house will disintegrate and a wood frame house will slide off its
foundation.Â* In earthquake country, stucco houses are the safest - they
just crack.


Cracked stucco is much better than just being blown over.

I'll bet some of the people on the islands in the caribbean are wishing
they'd never gone on HGTV's 'House Hunters International' and bought a
wooden house on the beach in the US Virgin Islands. Sorry, bad attempt
at humor.

My neighbor has offered to take me with her on Saturday when she goes to
visit her ex-DIL. She says I can bring Buffy. That's nice, really!
The problem is, even if the storm doesn't hit here, she wants to stay
for over a week so she can also visit with her grandkids, who will be
with their dad (her son, this is odd) this weekend. Her ex-DIL doesn't
get them until following weekend. Thanks, and nice offer! But I would
want to get home ASAP, not sit around waiting for her to see and spend
time with her grandkids.

I'm not sure what will happen in terms of the storm. The hurricane
track is all over the map. Florida is sure to get hit but after that,
all bets are off.

There aren't many places to go, anyway. Local news reports indicate
most hotel/motel rooms in GA are already reserved by people leaving
Florida. Not much place left for folks in SC to go...

Jill