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Rescuer in N.O. NOW
by rzmoon, 9/8/05 14:14 ET
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If you have seen or heard, or read or know of any dogs, cats etc that are stranded in New Orleans please contact me at 617-921-1411 and leave me a message will be checking every 15 minutes or so..
I can pass this information onto someone who is currently driving around in New Orleans searching and saving stranded pets and bringing them to a shelter.
you can also e-mail me at the above address or call me at 617-921-1411 and leave a detailed message/e-mail with regards to the location of your animal(s) and I will pass this information on. Thank you so much and best wishes!
As I write this, Ashleigh (girlind...@hotmail.com) is in Metairie, going from house to house feeding and rescuing pets! It¹s WORKING!! She might be able to go to 5 houses today. Her cell phone is calling out and I¹m mapquesting addresses while talking to her. Hopefully this type of story will continue to come in. Keep up the good work! Thank you Cathy. Who has a pet in Metairie? Speak now.
Rescue Boater Needs Help NOW by GoldenRetRes, 9/8/05 17:44 ET
YAHOO - Permission granted to contact the wonderful boat owner who needs help and is on the way...jord2...@bellsouth.net Please call me at 305-245-3773 about rescue efforts.Deborah Jordan PLUS SHE ADDED:I also told Noah that I was going to rescue the NO animals, St. Bernard Parrish, 9th Ward area first. Thanks Marty. Yes, I have already spoken with the HSUS and let them know I am coming with a boat. They were so happy, but say someone will have to call me back to try and coordinate something, however, they don't know when that would be. I don't feel we have time to wait because time is running out! I have gotten in touch with Noah's Wish which is staged in Heritage Park, Slidell. I am suppose to meet up with them as soon as I can arrive there. I am planning on leaving here in the morning (Miami) and driving straight through. A am also suppose to be having a truck with a reefer unit (refrigerated trailer) going to the site, cross my fingers that pans out. I'm in the process of trying to get crates, supplies and other necessary items to take for the recovery effort. If you know anyone who would like to go along and help or that has crates I could pick up along the way, that would be great.
wanted to let everyone to know that I have posted a few times re rescueing my pets at Chapelle & gen diaz. Today my 18 year old daughter accomplished what the coast guard and many other rescue organizations could not, she got our dog and 3 of our 4 cats out of our 2nd story lakeview home at the corner of Chapelle & gen. diaz. Twice today they returned to her with bad news that our home was surrounded by downed power lines, downed trees, and floating cars and they were unable to reach it. She would not take no for an answer and convinced someone to take her in on a jet ski. She returned with all but one of our beloved pets!!! I am so proud of her. Born and raised in New Orleans, you can't tell her she can't do something!!
http://forums.petfinder-networ k.com/viewtopic.php?p=732816#7 32816 and read post from Jordan
Gender: Unknown Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 9:32 am Post subject: Rescue in NO Have boat. Can we get in to help? ------ Have you been able to contact a group to let you into NO? I have a flat bottom boat, 17' to take into the area that will be perfect to move about the flood waters. I already wrote him back with HSUS info, but he may want to go commanado. I've written to him, asking form em addy...
Want to go to N.O. but worried about not being able to get in, email raecheli...@yahoo.com and possibly you can go under the umbrella of rescue group working in the hurricane area called Pets in Peril. got this info from post 2646, pasted it below, PLEASE PLEASE, even 1 person able to go that can save a few dogs is worth it: On a local radio station this morning I heard about another animal rescue group working in the hurricane area called Pets in Peril. The show host said he checked them out and they were reputable. On the MSNBC website I found this info "Pets In Peril leader Joe Renna said. "We need volunteers to drive the vans and perform rescue operations. We need able bodied people." Renna said people wanting more information about volunteering or donating supplies should call (864) 222-1641"
If I'm understanding your idea correctly, there would be some kind of tagging interface that would let lots of people tag bits of information from various sources. If you can get geocodes on those bits of information via tagging or by extracting from original source (street addresses or lat/long), then I think there could be a nice interface of the kind we have for housing nationally-- you click on a location and you get a list of all the bits of information for nearby. Perhaps you have some other ideas worked out-- would love to hear them.
Getting the tagging operation going would provide value by itself. It's the sort of thing that volunteers could do without extensive training, and could do in short stints of work, like checking e-mail. They could add it to their social networking routine.
It has been my experience that NOLA.com forum postings are much more meaningful when you see the full posts 20 to a page. Then, if you could simply pivot by author, you would have something that would make life easier for New Orleans residents, who have only ten or fifteen minutes at a computer.
Adding a geocode interface, cut and paste, to get the lat/long, would combine with the tags to create a page with tagged postings, and a map for the postings.
My near term goal it to bridge a gap between Web 1.0 New Orleans and the blogosphere, although if I had the time, I'd try to phrase that in a way that was not so buzz laden. The blogosphere could help organize information, but they have nothing to latch onto since nothing is getting syndicated in a meaningful feed.
There are a lot of experiences to share, but I'm trying to focus on development, and reduce the my lines of one on one communication. That is why I'm interested in collaborating with Ann Arbor resources.
