In all the talk about why people didn't evacuate, I was acutely aware that I would not have left my cat. I saw a reference on some thread to one shelter (not one involved in this; may have been in Florida) that decided to let people bring their pets because they believed many people who refused to evacuate did so because they wouldn't leave their pets.
Anyone recall the name of that group -- I believe it was a Baptist group -- that let people bring their pets on their buses? I'd like to give them something.