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Old September 8th 17, 12:04 AM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
jmcquown[_2_]
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On 9/7/2017 4:46 PM, dgk wrote:
On Thu, 7 Sep 2017 10:00:57 -0400, jmcquown
wrote:

Are you planning to evacuate for Hurricane Irma? 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. 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.

I was here in SC for Hurricane Matthew last October and the roads were
impassible for days. The shelters here in SC do NOT take pets. I would
not feel right leaving Buffy behind even if she did have a ton of food
and water and litter. She wouldn't know what was going on and I'd worry
constantly.

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.

Yes, downed power lines would be a problem. The shelters here are at
least 60 miles from where I live so no way could walk home to check.

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

The houses around here are wood framed, too. I've only seen one or two
brick houses on this island.

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.

My phone went out last year after Matthew passed through. I managed to
get a couple of calls out the morning after to let my SO and my best
friend I was okay, then kaput. I don't have a cell phone (no good cell
reception on the island and I'm required to have a land-line for the
alarm system anyway, so why pay 2 phone bills?)

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.

Of course! I've got bottled water, batteries, flash lights and an LED
lantern. Canned food. A 10 lb bag of ice in the freezer (didn't lose
much food last year). Plenty of cat food! A charcoal grill and
charcoal, wooden matches to light it with. I also have hurricane (oil)
lamps, which I prefer over harsh LED lights.

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.

Just try not to get blown away.

Jill