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Lawrence pooches take a plunge in the pool
A boy plays fetch with his dog at the Lawrence Outdoor Aquatic Center during the 10th annual Pooch Plunge Friday. The event allows dog owners to bring their dogs in before the pool is drained. On Friday, 189 dogs swam and played at the pool.
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Two local dog owners play with their dog at the Lawrence Outdoor Aquatic Center. Despite the rain, hundreds of dogs and their owners attended the event, which occurs every year on Labor Day Weekend when the pool closes for the year.
Lawrence residents are used to the shouts and laughter of children at the swimming pool, but on Friday night, children's laughter was replaced by something else – barking dogs.
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Lawrence dog owners refuse to let the fallout from Hurricane Isaac stop them from attending the annual Pooch Plunge at the Lawrence Aquatic Center Friday afternoon. Hundreds of dogs and their owners attended the event, which occurs every year on Labor Day Weekend when the pool closes for the year.
The Lawrence Outdoor Aquatic Center invited dog owners to bring their pets to the pool on the final evening before it closes for the season during their 10th annual Pooch Plunge.
"He'll actually go under the water and find the Frisbee," Ritchie said of Chema's favorite game, which they play every night. "He's
Last year, 350 dogs participated in the event. Rachel Sullivan, the pool's aquatics programmer, said this year's goal was 400 dogs. Although a steady rain lowered the total to 189 dogs this year, Sullivan said she was happy with the turnout.
Holley Ritchie said this is the second year she brought her 3-year-old Spanish water dog, Chema, to the event.
a real Frisbee freak."
Another Lawrence resident, Katie McCauley, brought her cocker spaniel. She bought her dog two days after the Jayhawks' 2008 NCAA tournament championship, so she named it in honor of a Kansas basketball legend.
"Her full name is Mary O. Chalmers, but she goes by Chalmers," McCaulle said.
Lawrence 10 years ago, when the city manager heard about another city hosting a pooch plunge. Sullivan said the pool is treated to make it safe for dogs.
The pool charged $5 per dog, which goes into the pool's operating budget. The event started in
"They actually take the chlorine levels down to have less chlorine than drinking water does so that it is safe for the dogs," Sullivan said.
The Lawrence Humane Society brought a few of dogs that were eligible for adoption to the plunge. The program, which is a no-kill organization, takes dogs from the
street or from owners who can no longer care for their pet.
Humane Society volunteer,
Melody Stewart brought Fletcher,
a black Labrador Retriever, to
the pool. She said it costs between $50
and $75 to adopt a dog, depending
on the breed.
"The ones that come in, they have to go through a behavioral test to see how they do with other dogs, other animals, people," Stewart said. "Then we assess them, OK, are they ready for adoption,
are they not?' Most of them after that are."
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WEATHER
Hurricane Isaac further batters storm stricken coast
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NEW ORLEANS — Much of a finger-shaped parish southeast of New Orleans was still covered with floodwater Sunday and more than 200,000 people across Louisiana still didn't have any power, five days after Isaac ravaged the state. Thousands of evacuees remained at shelters or bunked with friends or relatives.
"My family is split up," said Angela Serpa, from severely flooded Braithwaite in Plaquemines Parish. Serpa and her daughter were staying with her in-laws while her husband and son were staying in Belle Chasse, a suburban area of the parish.
"This is the second time we've lost our home. We lost it in Katrina," she said.
At least seven people were killed in the storm in the U.S. — five in Louisiana and two in Mississippi. More than 2,800 people were registered at various state, local and Red Cross shelters in the state, down from around 4,000 earlier. State officials were uncertain how many people would eventually need longer-term temporary housing. Kevin Davis, head of the state's emergency office, said that housing would likely include hotels at first, then rental homes as close as possible to their damaged property.
"We are part of a team to make sure Hurricane Isaac is put to rest as soon as we can for all those affected," Napolitano said. "In the meantime, please know all of us are thinking about those in Louisiana who are without their homes or without their businesses."
President Barack Obama was to visit Louisiana Monday, a day ahead of the Democratic National Convention. He will meet with local officials, tour storm damage and view response and recovery efforts before addressing reporters at Saint John the Baptist Parish, the White House said, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney visited the state Friday. Obama's Homeland Security Secretary, Janet Napolitano, visited Bay St. Louis, Miss., and Slidell, La., on Sunday.
Progress was evident in many places. Workers continued their return to offshore oil and gas production platforms and drilling rigs, electricity came on for hundreds of thousands of people and the annual Southern Decadence
Festival, a gay pride celebration,
carried on in the French Quarter
In Baton Rouge, thousands of gamblers even gathered for the opening of Louisiana's newest riverboat casino—an opening that was delayed three days by Isaac.
Crews in the town of Lafitte intentionally breached a levee Sunday night in an effort to help flooding there subside, Jefferson Parish Councilman Chris Roberts told The Times-Picayune.
In the New Orleans region, there were signs of a slow recovery. Workers continued to deal with toppled trees and downed power lines, driving remained hazardous in areas without working traffic lights, and New Orleans opened two cooling shelters so those with no electricity could escape the heat.
Much of Plaquemines Parish, a vulnerable finger of land that juts into the Gulf of Mexico, remained
under as much as five feet of water, Parish President Billy Nungesser said. The Category 1 hurricane walloped the parish, and for many,
the damage was worse than that from Katrina in 2005.
Nungesser said there were reports that cattle in the largely rural parish took refuge on porches. In one instance, cattle broke through a window and lumbered onto furniture to stay above water.
the Pearl River Diversion Canal. But St. Tammany authorities also were keeping an eye on the West Pearl River. Parish spokeswoman said about 5,000 homes near that waterway could be affected if it floods.
"I've never seen water come up this quick this fast," he said.
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PLAQUEMINES PARISH RESIDENT
Suburban communities farther north also had problems. Near Lake Pontchartrain, St. Tammany Parish officials kept watch over potential trouble spots along Isaac-swollen waterways.
Business owners and residents who evacuated from the west river bank of flooded south Plaque-mines Parish will be allowed to return temporarily with police escorts on Monday.
Controlled breaches of one overtopped levee and additional pumps are being used to get rid of the water.
But St. James Parish officials ordered a curfew until 6 a.m.
Monday as the Blind River stayed at a 5.6-foot crest for 24 hours, and about 20 houses flooded. A state news release said 10 buses had been sent to the parish in case evacuation was necessary, and that about 150 National Guard soldiers had also been directed there.
An evacuation near the community of Bush was dialed back Sunday after authorities stabilized a lock in danger of failing on
In Mississippi, Gov. Phil Bryant reported 125,000 people were evacuated, though most returned home Sunday. Less than 100 people remained in shelters. Bryant said 924 people had to be rescued during Isaac.
Entergy, which provides power
to most of the people who lost it, was under fire over the weekend from local government officials for what they said was a slow pace of restoration. Jefferson Parish President John Young said widespread outages were hampering businesses' recovery from the storm and he would ask the state Public Service Commission to investigate.
"We are working hard. We do have a good plan and we're going about it in an approach that we think is going to be effective," Laarade said.
Entergy spokesman Chanel Lagarde noted that Isaac had lingered over the state after Tuesday's landfall and said Friday was the first day the corporation could get restoration efforts into high gear.
In Mississippi, about 1,600 Entergy customers awaited power. Roughly 5,000 served by not-for-profit electric associations also had no service.
Napolitano met with Mississippi emergency officials and Bryant at a fire station in Bay St. Louis, Miss., and was scheduled to make a stop in Louisiana later in the day.
Bay St. Louis was devastated by Katrina seven years ago, but this time it was protected from Isaac's surge by a new seawall.
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A mailbox peeks above floodwaters from Hurricane Isaac in Braithwaite, La., Sunday. More than 200,000 people across Louisiana still didn't have any power five days after Hurricane Isaac ravaged the state. Thousands of evacuees remained at shelters or bunked with friends or relatives.
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