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WILD WEATHER, PEOPLE AND ANIMALS

TheDogPlace.org Staff

Hurricane Helene killed 200+ Americans and countless animals, now snow in New Orleans! Be prepared and share your wild weather preparation tips for the next edition! See Below..

The winds (and water) killed humans and animals in the Yucatán Peninsula, Honduras, Cayman Islands and Cuba. Then, taking a deep breath, Helene set a course for Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas.

Hardest hit were the reclusive North Carolina “mountain people” who had stayed with their livestock and/or properties. True, more than a few of those people are $millionaires who keep “a home in the mountains” for entertaining…but they shoveled, moved trees, loaded logs for seating and cooked for everyone. In fact, two famous chefs removed debris and then fed over 30 people!

To their credit, we are told that most of the TV crews did try to respect the “hillbillies” and footage was edited to preserve everyone’s privacy. But the financial losses (over $1 billion) can’t give those “mountain people” back their sense of security.  Those famously tough “Up-Mountain” people will never be the same. You didn’t even know about them (they wanted it that way) until Hurricane Helene stripped them of their cherished privacy.

After laying waste to NC high country, Helene took a deep breath (literally) and battered the Midwest and Northeast. Animal deaths triggered by the storm marks Helene as one of the deadliest in recent history. Homes can be rebuilt but precious animal genetics (bloodlines) were forever lost to this weather event.

As of this writing there have been 550 deaths in the United States directly related to weather events including 166 people killed in the floods. Add to that birds that nest in trees which no longer exist, burrowing animals that find only mud where they once lived and countless wildlife that couldn't outrun the storms.

Now we have SNOW in New Orleans! Is the planet warming? Weather watchers are worried, weather stations play it down, newscasters seem tongue-tied and we have no answers.  If you can offer additional animal safety precautions or if you have suffered a weather-related loss of pets or livestock, please email the Editor. Your animal photos are always welcome and will be credited if/when used.

Photo Courtesy: NCEI & NOAA ~ National Centers for Environmental Info. and National Oceanic And Atmospheric Adm.

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