Thanks to Sukie for an excellent post. I'd just like to add one thing to what she said here: >...or if they take their lives and those of their critters into their >own hands by choosing not to leave when warned if the threat is a >large enough one." It's not only your life and your furkids' lives you are endangering - it's the lives of those who come in to try and rescue you. Even the professionals get into trouble when a roof or wall unexpectedly collapses, or a swimmer is sucked into powerful storm drainage systems that are hidden under floodwater (as happened to a few unlucky souls in New Orleans). Susann Thiel [Posted in FML 5709]