Tuesday, September 16, 2008

After Ike, livestock dying for lack of water State agriculture agent Tyler Fitzgerald barely had time to talk Monday as he clambered across storm-ravaged pastureland in Chambers County near the Gulf Coast. Fitzgerald was busy trying to save cattle, horses and other animal survivors left in the muddy wake of Hurricane Ike, which caused 15- to 18-foot surges of ocean water to pour across the farms and ranches along the Southeast Texas coast over the weekend. "I don't have any statistics yet," Fitzgerald said through the sputterings of a weather-weakened cell phone. "But we have a lot of dead animals."....

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