According to the API News Service, wild animals are becoming quite a problem in New Orleans (and, most likely, other areas of the South impacted by the 2005 Hurricane Season. The animals have been moving in after the storms (or were blown in), including, the article notes:
In suburban Kenner, Cherry Robinson found snakes in her yard, while a man in another part of town found deadly brown widow spiders, a cousin of the black widow.
"You used to have to go deep in the woods to find brown widows," said Jayme Necaise, an entomologist with the Audubon Nature Institute Insectarium, a museum scheduled to open next year. "Now we're finding them all over the place. Along with swarms of flies, roaches and mosquitoes."
The degree of trash and abandoned buildings this article refers to would seem to indicate that there is more clean-up to do than we have been led to believe.
Who's leading the clean up?
BOTTOM LINE: Strong Leaders Always Clean Up Their Messes
tags:
New Orleans
Hurricanes
2005