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After Hurricane Katrina, we had a huge number of hummingbirds visit our house. Perhaps this was because we still had a feeder available. We had one problem, though. We had been remodelling and our sun porch, which previously had clear plexiglass as “windows” did not have any windows at the time. Unfortunately, the hummingbirds saw [...]
The Cajun Clickers Computer Club and I were honored on November 11, 2005 as “Hurricane Heroes” by the Excalibur Club in Baton Rouge. During September, I started and lead the Katrina Pet Rescue Project of the Cajun Clickers Computer Club. We were working as volunteers for the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry’s Office of [...]
I am constantly amazed at the news media and television talking heads, let alone the politicians who are trying to shoot at anyone involved in the Hurricane Katrina situation — whether they were involved in preparations or response. One of the headlines at Yahoo! News today reads “U.S. Unprepared for Katrina.” This article summarized a [...]
As Rita was arriving, the television stations were swamped with Rita information. The local stations and cable news stations focused on Rita.<br /> <br /> Now, the morning after, as we sit here without power except for radios and battery-powered TV stations — what do we have? FOOTBALL!<br /> <br /> Cable was down including [...]
Southwest Louisiana from the Texas border to New Orleans took the brunt of Hurricane Rita. <br /> <br /> New Orleans, which had just started to let residents back in, suffered renewed flooding in the low-income 9th Ward, which was where the main levee break had occurred after Hurricane Katrina. With Hurricane Rita, the waters [...]
Due to the Tropical Storm Warnings for Baton Rouge from Hurricane Rita, we have wrapped up our volunteer project a couple days early. Yesterday, Thursday 9/22, was the last day of the Cajun Clickers Katrina Pet Rescue Project. Cajun Clickers Computer Club volunteers have been volunteering for the State of Louisiana's Office of Animal Health [...]
Volunteers from the Cajun Clickers Computer Club continue our volunteer Katrina Pet Rescue Project work for the State's Office of Animal Health Services. We're inputting information from emails and phone call notes into a massive spreadsheet that the State, the Louisiana SPCA and the Humane Society of the US are using to coordinate the actual [...]
WAFB Channel 9 gave us an opportunity to talk about our volunteers' efforts on our Cajun Clickers Katrina Pet Rescue Project this morning on their “Sunday 9 News This Morning” show. Cajun Clickers members are volunteers working for the State's Office of Animal Health Services and providing “pets to be rescued” data to the Louisiana [...]