Excerpt from Louisiana Conservationist, Vol. 58: November-December, 2005 New Orleans has always known that a category three or stronger hurricane would be no match for their levees, which was a main reason for a mandatory evacuation of people living in the area. However, there were still thousands of people who stayed either because they did not have the means to leave, thought this was another false prediction, or did not want to leave their homes, belongings and pets behind. It was estimated that 90 percent of the people in harm's way evacuated before the storm, which still left thousands of people who would need rescuing in the event of flooding. The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Enforcement Division agents along with biologists and technicians from the wildlife and fisheries divisions would be the first ones in the water saving people in the event that this worst-case scenario came true. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.