Key West Artist Rescues Baby Chicks During Katrina

Hurricane Katrina brought eight orphans of the storm to the door of Key West artist Rachel Kelly. Friday afternoon, during the worst of the wind and rain, Kelly heard baby chicks screeching outside and saw a chick floating in the flooded yard next door. She put on her bikini and ran out to rescue them. Kelly scooped up the soggy chicks and put them in a nearby flowerpot, while a neighbor who ran outside to help grabbed the mother hen. They carried them inside, where the feathered family nested in a picnic basket until the storm passed over. Kelly says the hen and the babies are fine and healthy now. Kelly says staging a chicken rescue was "certainly an exciting way to spend the storm." ...via