Tulsans and their pets may have been largely spared
by the
tornadoes that ripped through the state last week, but our neighbors to the northeast in Joplin are still recovering from a
deadly EF - 5
tornado.
Most of the more than 200 Central Florida pets left homeless
by February's
deadly tornadoes have been reunited with their owners or taken in
by new families.For shelter operators who worked around the clock for days to tend to stranded and injured pets, the task now is to place the 17 dogs and cats remaining from Orange, Osceola and Seminole, the hardest - hit counties.In the days after the storms, dogs with puppies, cats with litters on the way, even parakeets and guinea pigs were rescued
by strangers or turned in
by owners who didn't have a place for themselves, let alone their pets.
There are divergent views on whether the recent droughts affecting the
tornado states were caused
by climate change — although climate models do predict more droughts in central North America, which is often a vast playpen of
deadly twisters.