By ALDWIN ROMAN, CAWA
CHARLESTON ANIMAL SOCIETY HAS led animal disaster response efforts in South Carolina for the past six years. Not limiting itself to South Carolina, Charleston Animal Society has assisted states from the East Coast to the Gulf Coast and Caribbean Islands such as Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the Bahamas. The work that has been accomplished is a model for other communities that face disasters. But there is still much work to be done.
South Carolina has experienced federally- declared disasters each of the last six years, but no hurricanes on the scale of a direct hit, such as Hurricane Hugo in 1989.