Winn-Dixie Staging Area in New Orleans
4600 Chef Menteur Hwy staging area at N. Louisa Street
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VOLUNTEER NEEDS/SITUATION:
From rescuer on front lines: You CAN get in along a protected, non-flooded
route to the new staging area at Winn-Dixie (directions below). Volunteers
needed NOW. Many dry areas, but bring rubber boots (See Kinship Circle's
personal supply list at end of email). People needed to get dogs off
porches, etc. NEED RESCUE GROUPS to come get them. You CAN and WILL get in.

1) Have magnetic sign printed at Kinkos (or any copy store) for both sides
of your vehicle. It should read: DISASTER RELIEF ANIMAL RESCUE / BEST
FRIENDS.ORG (or PET SUPPLIES PLUS or your organization)

2) At National Guard checkpoints, they WILL wave you through if you have
these signs. (If you are stopped for some reason, you are working with Best
Friends at 4600 Chef Menteur Hwy staging area at N. Louisa Street). The
Guard has been very rescue friendly...

SUPPLY NEEDS (9/13/05):
-crates
-boats (inflatables needed to hold full crates on the water)
-trucks, SUVs
-sticks with loops to get reluctant dogs

DIRECTIONS TO WINN-DIXIE STAGING AREA:
Take I-12 E (from Hammond) towards N.O. and I-10.

Around Covington, LA, take US Hwy 190 South, which takes you to N. Causeway
Blvd. and the bridge over Lake Ponchatrain into N.O.. Be sure to stay on
Causeway Blvd. to go over bridge! You will be in Metarie once over the
bridge.

Stay on S. Causeway Blvd. all the way to Jefferson Hwy, 90 E. (You'll cross over Veterans Blvd.)

Stay on Jeff Highway east to N.O.. until it turns into S. Claiborne Ave.

Take a right on Monticello Ave, which turns into (dead ends) at Oak St. Go left on Oak.

Bear right on Leake Ave. (You will be paralleling the Mississippi river)

Stay on Leake for 10 or so blocks and then take a left onto St. Charles Ave.

Continue past Tulane on your left, Audubon Park on your right. Cross over
Napoleon and Louisiana Aves. Stay on St. Charles until you dead end.

Follow signs to reach I-10 E. (i.e. go left at the end of St. Charles)

Take I-10 E to Louisa St. N (the 2nd exit). Go left on Louisa.

Go through several red lights to Chef Menteur Hwy and go right.

Immediately see Winn-Dixie on right in the first block.