Hurricane Irma

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local stock yards, arenas, horse show facilities. stables, and such might be able to house animals of those traveling with some animals.
 

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I would hate to have to evacuate with animals.
 

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I can't even imagine how I would evacuate 60 goats, 6 dogs, 4 cats, and 2 parakeets. The chickens would have to stay. Earthquakes give no warning so no evacuations needed and DH says we will be fine in a wild land fire and that is what his career is (was) so I will trust him. He understands fire behavior and I haven't a clue. I am really thankful that tornadoes and hurricanes are not something we see.
 

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Been watching the news non stop...

That's probably like watching a slow-motion train wreck, with 'play-by-play' commentary from a bunch of folks who are all trying to one-up each other, and each more clueless than the last (if past experience is anything to go by). I like to get what I can from the source (NHC, etc); at least they aren't trying to get ratings.

On a lighter note:
http://www.wect.com/story/36330555/florida-mans-joke-about-shooting-irma-gets-taken-seriously

(Somehow, I'm hearing Humphrey Bogart in Key Largo, "You don't like it, do you Rocco, the storm? Show it your gun, why don't you?")
 
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They always put those dummies out in the driving rain, standing in water so they can show the folks at home just how bad it is.
 

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Our daughter said she saw, on the news, a lady evacuating in a very small car with her chickens. She had rolled them up in newspaper with their heads sticking out and stacked them in her car.

Really, that's a good idea if you ever have to make a run for it. Most of us can take our larger animals, but wouldn't be able to sacrifice the room to stack cages of chickens. I like the newspaper chicken burrito idea!
 

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