What a vivid description of the hurricane and its results!
You must feel like Old Noah with all those animals.
Did you know that every telephone pole has a specific identifiable number on it. They are nailed on to the pole. The number are placed on a piece of sheet metal about 6 inches by 6 inches. We found one of those pieces of sheet metal with the numbers on it in one of our pastures. I am going to keep it and put it in a small shadow box frame for the kids as a memory keepsake, just to remember Rita. That metal sheet had been ripped away from being nailed at its four corners to the pole.