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Sep. 29th, 2024 07:58 pmIf I've learned anything from the past two hurricanes, it's that you can't judge by category or where you are in relation to the path. And once they enter the gulf with high water temperatures, everything gets turned up to 11. Flooding and storm surge kicked our asses with Debby and Helene. Debby was barely a cat 1, and Helene was 100 miles off shore from where the sanctuary is on the coast, but the damage it did was a different kind of devastation when comparing it to Ian or Irma. I've never seen anything like it.
I probably wouldn't be as worked up about it as I am if we hadn't lost one of our birds. It was completely avoidable. The keepers asked 3 times to move her, and were told that the water level wouldn't get that high. 3 feet of storm surge for a bird that can't fly is fatal. We're extremely lucky that we didn't lose more birds. I am furious, and the keepers are also furious.
We were caught with our pants down on this storm; the people in charge weren't communicating with the teams well; I came in 6am on Thursday morning just to find out that everyone else had decided that nobody was planning on going in. I was floored that we weren't even going to make an effort to get birds inside or at least fed. They underestimated the amount of danger our birds would be in, and they did not prepare as well as they should have.
I don't know if they're even going to take responsibility for their decisions. If they don't, I'm gonna judge them hard. I'm judging them already. The person responsible for storm prep didn't even show up for the all hands on deck cleaning efforts we've been busy with the last two days. This is not doing anything positive for my opinion of them. I had always trusted this person to have the birds' best interest in mind, they have always used an abundance of caution in the past, but with the lack of preparation for this storm, I seriously question their judgment on any of it.
I probably wouldn't be as worked up about it as I am if we hadn't lost one of our birds. It was completely avoidable. The keepers asked 3 times to move her, and were told that the water level wouldn't get that high. 3 feet of storm surge for a bird that can't fly is fatal. We're extremely lucky that we didn't lose more birds. I am furious, and the keepers are also furious.
We were caught with our pants down on this storm; the people in charge weren't communicating with the teams well; I came in 6am on Thursday morning just to find out that everyone else had decided that nobody was planning on going in. I was floored that we weren't even going to make an effort to get birds inside or at least fed. They underestimated the amount of danger our birds would be in, and they did not prepare as well as they should have.
I don't know if they're even going to take responsibility for their decisions. If they don't, I'm gonna judge them hard. I'm judging them already. The person responsible for storm prep didn't even show up for the all hands on deck cleaning efforts we've been busy with the last two days. This is not doing anything positive for my opinion of them. I had always trusted this person to have the birds' best interest in mind, they have always used an abundance of caution in the past, but with the lack of preparation for this storm, I seriously question their judgment on any of it.
