Re: Gustav. Evacuating? What do I do??
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Originally Posted by
daniel1983
I would forget the food. Make sure they are given water access as much as possible though. Most snakes can last a month or two without food. Water is a necessity however.
We are about 35 miles Northeast of New Orleans (about 20 miles from where the eye of Katrina hit). It sucks that we will probably be on the strong side this time......but we plan on staying unless conditions get really severe (i.e. Catagory 5 hitting New Orleans directly, putting us in the very worse of it).
For Katrina, we did not have power for almost a month. But we now have a few generators, so I am making preperations to get the reptile collection 'consolidated' and easily moved to an air conditioned room.
I would also do a search on this site for more information. We had several discussions after the Katrina season.
The heatpacks and handwarmers will be too much for most conditions. The temperatures this week in the southeast are 90+ deg. I would be more concerned with the animals getting too hot than being cold. Heat kills animals quick.
Be safe Daniel we are also in a crazy hurricane zone and feel whats going on over there.
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Originally Posted by
mistino
Just wanted to tell everyone good luck that is in the path. We will be here waiting it out. Evacuating is not possible for us. We have way too many animals and eggs in the incubator to move. We had to deal with Katrina and had little problems so this should be fine too.
I hope and pray for everyone's sake Gustav doesn't keep strengthening be safe guy's.
Re: Gustav. Evacuating? What do I do??
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Originally Posted by
mistino
Just wanted to tell everyone good luck that is in the path. We will be here waiting it out. Evacuating is not possible for us. We have way too many animals and eggs in the incubator to move. We had to deal with Katrina and had little problems so this should be fine too.
be careful. please let us know you're safe when it's over.
Re: Gustav. Evacuating? What do I do??
I've never had to evacuate so I don't have too much advice for you. I would not feed but definitely provide water. When I had to transport two of my snakes for 4 hours in a hot car, I had them in deli cups (larger ones about the size of a small plate) and we had to try and keep the temperature down because it was around 101 in the car. (We had no a/c) If you know about how warm/cool it will be outside, you could just make sure the inside of the car stays around the mid to upper 80's. It would make you uncomfortable, but I've done it before.
Be careful and keep us updated. I hate storms and would be freaking out if I were in your position. We'd have to evacuate a lot of animals. Around 40 to be exact.
