Kentucky has not had good luck in the past year with weather. We had both a devastating wind storm and ice storm in the past 12 months and just yesterday we had record breaking rainfall. Much of Louisville was flooded-- including our metro animal shelter.
My sister used to work for Metro and when she realized how much flooding was happening she rushed out to help the evacuation effort. I'll link the 2 news articles I've found but basically they were overwhelmed and understaffed in this giant move. At least 10 kittens died and one dog. Now they've begun the task of re-identifying the animals and cleaning up the shelter. If you can any money that you can donate to our shelter, please do. This was a tragedy that no one expected-- we're normally in a drought this time of year!
Flood Information: http://www.whas11.com/video/index.h tml?nvid=386076
Animal Shelter Information: http://www.whas11.com/news/local/storie s/whas11-topstories-090804-animals-drown.a bab2c20.html
Link to Donate to Metro: http://www.louisvilleky.gov/AnimalServi ces/flooding_donations.htm
Thank you guys so much. I hope they can clean the shelter up right. They have little funding as it is.
**Also, we lost about 10,000 books at our main library as well. If there is any donation information posted, I will pass it on. As of right now The website for the Louisville Free Public Library is down.***
EDIT: THE LIBRARY IS ACCEPTING DONATIONS BUT ONLY BY MAIL.
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/C A6674818.html?desc=topstory
The damage is quoted at about a million dollars but no one knows for sure yet.
My sister used to work for Metro and when she realized how much flooding was happening she rushed out to help the evacuation effort. I'll link the 2 news articles I've found but basically they were overwhelmed and understaffed in this giant move. At least 10 kittens died and one dog. Now they've begun the task of re-identifying the animals and cleaning up the shelter. If you can any money that you can donate to our shelter, please do. This was a tragedy that no one expected-- we're normally in a drought this time of year!
Flood Information: http://www.whas11.com/video/index.h
Animal Shelter Information: http://www.whas11.com/news/local/storie
Link to Donate to Metro: http://www.louisvilleky.gov/AnimalServi
Thank you guys so much. I hope they can clean the shelter up right. They have little funding as it is.
**Also, we lost about 10,000 books at our main library as well. If there is any donation information posted, I will pass it on. As of right now The website for the Louisville Free Public Library is down.***
EDIT: THE LIBRARY IS ACCEPTING DONATIONS BUT ONLY BY MAIL.
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/C
The damage is quoted at about a million dollars but no one knows for sure yet.
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