Forces of Nature, Memoir of Katrina Pet Rescue, launches.
August 25 2016 - 10:27PM
Business Wire
Forces of Nature is the remarkable story of the courage and
commitment of two ordinary women who put their lives, jobs and
families on hold to rescue thousands of pets fighting for their
lives when Hurricane Katrina destroyed New Orleans.
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Joanne Greene, a former Playboy Bunny, and Penny Koncz, an award
winning body builder, watched with horror as almost the entire pet
population of one of American’s most iconic cities was abandoned
and some even shot in the aftermath of this historic storm.
While humans were ordered to evacuate New Orleans in 2005, no
provision was made for the estimated 300,000 pets. Many were left
in homes with a bowl of food and water, as their owners expected to
return soon. No one was prepared for the apocalypse looming on the
horizon.
As levees broke, thousands of animals had no choice but to sink
or swim. Even more, locked in homes, drowned as the raging waters
burst through buildings, flooding rooms to the ceiling. Tragically,
even more who survived marathon swims to dry land, or who could
flee to roofs and attics, later perished drinking toxic water from
ruptured sewers and petrochemical industries.
Unable to stomach what was happening, Joanne and Penny dropped
everything and reported to the Lamar Dixon Animal Rescue Center at
Gonzales, Louisiana. They travelled daily into the wreckage of New
Orleans to rescue terrified animals, many now semi-feral after the
horrors they had experienced.
They waded through polluted waters, crawled under homes where
venomous snakes slithered, stepped on bodies and bones, gagged on
the stench of corpses rotting in sub-tropical heat, saw horror and
honor in equal measures … witnessing firsthand an unconquerable
will to survive by even the humblest of creatures.
It wasn’t just the field rescues they were involved in. After
bringing animals to safety, they worked tirelessly to reunite them
with their owners.
What these gallant people did is now a blueprint for domestic
animal rescue in disaster zones. Hurricanes will come and go, but
it is unlikely that defenseless creatures will ever again be so
callously abandoned by bureaucratic collapse as they were during
Katrina.
This book is a tribute to all animal rescuers. The story of the
unsung heroes of America’s most famous natural disaster is only now
being fully told.
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Forces of NatureJoanne Greene,
312-560-5815jgreene1950@yahoo.comAmazon link:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1535578173