From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1998:

SAN ANTONIO– – What
happened to Primarily Primates during
the recent Texas flooding?
Secretary Stephen Rene
Tello’s first recollection was that so
many pipes were unearthed and broken
by a flash flood that the sanctuary
had no potable water for a day.
That meant Tello and
Primarily Primates president Wally
Swett had more than 800 thirsty monkeys,
great apes, lemurs, tropical
birds, a wallaby, and assorted other
creatures to haul buckets for.
“It sounds strange that the
animals had no water, when we had
just experienced a two-foot wave
rolling over half the sanctuary, but it
just came through so fast,” Tello
said. “Many of the monkey cages
were inundated with six inches of
packed mud and rocks. The chimp
enclosures nearest our flood control
dam,” which broke, “had a foot and
a half of rock and clay from the dam.

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1997:

Animal rescuers were stretched thin from late January to St. Patrick’s
Day by flooding in northern California and twisters followed by torrential rains that
on March 4 raised the Ohio River to its highest level in 30 years. The American
Humane Association had just a boat-carrying mobile clinic to a regional training
event when the floods began, and didn’t get it into action until March 10, when it
set up in Falmouth, Kentucky. The Kentucky animal relief effort to then was
apparently led by Henry Wallace’s Henry’s Ark petting zoo, in Prospect.
The Humane Society of the U.S. reportedly published newspaper ads ballyhooing
involvement in the California animal rescue work, but according to Bob
Plumb of the Promoting Animal Welfare Society, which sent $5,000 and several
staff to the hardest-hit area, actually rescued just one bird. Four HSUS staffers and
two from AHA mostly helped the California Veterinary Medical Association emergency
team with paperwork, reports from the field agreed. United Animal Nations
Animal Rescue Service coordinator Terri Crisp meanwhile organized 600 volunteers
to rescue and care for 857 animals, housed temporarily at the Sacramento
fairgrounds, with no supply help, she alleged, from other national groups.

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1997:

SACRAMENTO––For
the second time in three years, winter
flooding put the Emergency
Animal Rescue Service division of
United Animal Nations to the test
within commuting distance of the
UAN headquarters.
A harbinger came with a
November 19 coastal storm featuring
70-mile-an-hour winds and a
record 6.7 inches of rainfall in 24
hours, that hit at least two Oregon
no-kill sanctuaries hard. The Red
Bear Animal & Plant Sanctuary near
Bandon, Oregon, suffered roof
damage, said founder Anne Barnes.
The newly founded Ark
Refuge, alongside the Tillamook
River, was overwhelmed even
before securing nonprofit status, by
the arrival of animals from flooded
neighbors, claimed Ark founder
Eddie White, who also runs a riding
stable and has apparently come
under critical scrutiny from the
Oregon Humane Society.

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