“Army”

AND IM GOING TO CONTINUE OUR COVERAGE RIGHT NOW BY TOSSING THINGS OVER TO JONAH GILMORE LIVE IN SLIDELL. AND YOU ARE AT A SHELTER. HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE OUT THERE AT THE SHELTER RIGHT NOW? JONAH? WELL. NO ONE IS AT THE SHELTER RIGHT NOW, BUT THEY ARE PREPARING TO ACCEPT PEOPLE AND PETS. THIS IS ONE OF THE FEW SHELTERS THAT IS TAKING PETS ALONG WITH THEIR OWNERS. RIGHT NOW. WERE JOINED BY SAINT TAMMANY PARISH COUNCILMAN DAVID KUGEL. RIGHT NOW, MR. KUGEL, THIS PLACE IS SET UP TO ACCOMMODATE A LITTLE OVER 50 PEOPLE. YOU TELL ME. RIGHT. WELL, I THINK THEYRE SETTING UP 50 COTS. THERE ARE RIGHT NOW, MY UNDERSTANDING IS THREE DIFFERENT FACILITIES OR SHELTERS, BUT I THINK THEY MIGHT END UP CONSOLIDATING BASED ON JUST NEED AND REQUIREMENTS. ONE OF THE THINGS WITH THIS PARTICULAR ONE, AS YOU MENTIONED, IS THEY ARE GOING TO HAVE A PET FACILITY AS WELL, SO PEOPLE CAN BRING THEIR PETS AS WELL. I REPRESENT UP AND DOWN MILITARY ROAD, HIGHWAY 41, SO A LOT OF THE DAMAGE IVE SEEN IS MORE NEAR SOUTH FROM HERE, PARTICULARLY HONEY ISLAND ELEMENTARY. YOU CAN SEE A LOT OF THE TREES ARE DOWN THERE AS WELL. A LOT OF PEOPLE LOST POWER, BUT I THINK THE PARISH IS ACTING AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE. CITY OF SLIDELL IS ALSO GOT HIT PRETTY BAD. I THINK THEYRE ALSO, YOU KNOW, ALL HANDS ON DECK TO DEAL WITH THIS. AND THATS CRITICAL. YOU JUST SAID ALL HANDS ON DECK. TALK ABOUT THAT RESPONSE. IT SEEMS LIKE EVERYONE HAS JUST JUMPED IN AND JUST GOT TO WORK RIGHT OF WAY. ABSOLUTELY. IVE BEEN ON TEXT. I MEAN, IVE BEEN AND JOINING TEXT MESSAGE GROUPS ALL MORNING BETWEEN THE COUNCIL, OTHER OFFICIALS, JUST LIKE WHATS NEEDED WHERE JUST MAKING SURE, YOU KNOW, EVERYBODY GETS WHAT THEYRE WHATS NEEDED. STATE POLICE HAVE EVEN I WAS ALSO TOLD THE STATE POLICE WANT TO SEE IF THEY CAN CAN HELP AS WELL. BATON ROUGE IS FOLLOWING. THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE IS FOLLOWING THE SPEAKER. THE STATE LEGISLATURE. BUT YOU KNOW, WELL SEE. I THINK WERE GOING TO TAKE CARE OF BUSINESS. A LOT OF, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF PEOPLE, AS I MENTIONED, LOST POWER. I LOST POWER. SO THERE ARE GOING TO BE PEOPLE LOSING FOOD. YOU KNOW, PROBABLY AS WELL, IF THE POWER DOESNT GO ON. I THINK ITS GOING TO BE IF YOU SEE SOME OF THE DAMAGE, SOME OF THE. AREAS IVE SEEN, I THINK IT MIGHT BE A COUPLE DAYS, AT LEAST FOR PEOPLE TO GET THEIR POWER BACK. AND WE WANT TO QUICKLY TOUCH ON THOSE PETS. WE HAVE. ROBERT BEHRMAN HERE RIGHT NOW. TALK ABOUT THIS UNIT. WE HAVE BEHIND US. ABSOLUTELY. SO THIS IS OUR PARISHES ADOPTION TRAILER. THATS WHAT WE CALL IT. BUT ITS ALSO A MULTIPURPOSE UNIT. WE USE IT DURING EMERGENCY EVENTS JUST LIKE THIS TO HOUSE THE PETS OF THE PEOPLE COMING INTO THE SHELTER. UM, WE WE HAVE WE HAVE A COUPLE STAFF ON HAND RIGHT HERE. WE CAN HOUSE COMFORTABLY 28 ANIMALS IN THIS AIR CONDITIONED UNIT. UM, IF WE HAD MORE THAN THAT, THEN WE COULD WORK SOMETHING OUT. WE HAVE PLENTY OF CRATES AND WHATNOT AND WHAT HAVE YOU TO. TO MAKE SURE THAT PETS CAN BE BROUGHT WITH YOU AND NOT LEFT AT DEVASTATED HOMES WITHOUT FENCING. POSSIBLY TO GO AND RUN THE STREETS AND WHATNOT AND WHAT HAVE YOU. SO, UM, WERE WERE PREPARED. WERE HERE, WERE WITH YOU GUYS. UM, SAINT TAMMANY HAS BEEN SHOWING UP IN DROVES, SO IM JUST IM REALLY PROUD OF MY COMMUNITY. AND AND WERE HERE TO HELP. GOTCHA. AND YOU DID TELL ME THAT THEY DO ACCEPT BOTH LARGE AND SMALL ANIMALS. THEY SAID YOU CAN BRING YOUR FOOD, BUT IF YOU CANT BRING THAT FOOD WITH YOU, THEY HAVE SOME FOOD ON SITE HERE. WELL BE HERE AT THE SHELTERS TO MONITOR IF PEOPLE COME IN OR NOT. UM, WELL HAVE THE LATEST FOR YOU ON AIR AND ONLINE. WERE LIV