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  • From: bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
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  • Subject: [Homestead] sleeping with a lion in church during hurricane
  • Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:10:26 -0700 (PDT)

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Riding out Ike on an island, with a lion
By ALLEN G. BREED, AP National Writer Tue Sep 16, 11:52 PM ET
BOLIVAR PENINSULA, Texas - Many years from now, a small group of Hurricane
Ike survivors will probably still be telling the story of how, on the night
the storm flattened their island, they took sanctuary in a church — with a
lion.
The full-grown lion was from a local zoo, and the owner was trying to drive
to safety with the animal when he saw cars and trucks stranded in the rising
floodwaters. He knew he and the lion were in trouble.
He headed for the church and was met by a group of residents who helped the
lion wade inside, where they locked it in a sanctuary as the storm raged. The
water crept up to their waists, and two-by-fours came floating through broken
windows. But the lion was as calm as a kitten.
When daylight came, everyone was still alive.
"They worked pretty well together, actually," said the lion's owner, Michael
Ray Kujawa. "When you have to swim, the lion doesn't care about eating
nobody."
Amid the destruction in places like Bolivar Peninsula and Galveston, where
row upon row of houses were scoured from the landscape, seemingly impossible
tales of survival have begun emerge. Whether through faith or fate, luck or
resourcefulness, dozens of people who stayed behind made it out alive, and
have harrowing stories to prove it.







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