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Deputies in boats round up 100s of cattle, horsesIRONTON, La. (AP)--Plaquemines Parish sheriff's deputies in airboats and flatboats rounded up hundreds of horses and cattle out of Hurricane Ike's floodwaters on Sept. 13. "We woke up this morning about 4:30, and you could hear the animals yelling outside. They were getting separated from their mothers, because their mothers could touch ground and they couldn't," said Parish President Billy Nungesser, who owns cattle and elk. He and another man waded and swam to herd the calves to higher ground across Louisiana Highway 23. "We'd get behind them, and they'd swim away from us and we'd swim them to the highway," Nungesser said. The tall elk were no problem. "All I did was open the gates and they walked across the street to my house." They got about 25 calves and 30 to 50 cows and horses to the Mississippi River levee by daybreak, when airboats showed up and got another 200 or more cattle out of danger. Deputies were cutting barbed-wire fences at another pasture to let 300 to 400 more walk across the highway to the Mississippi River levee. Parish crews gave up the attempt to keep floods from overtopping the low, private levees in the area. Nungesser says farmers in that area own about 2,000 head of cattle. 9/22/08 Date: 9/18/08 Advertisement
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