“Every life was changed overnight in this area. Every life in America was changed. What if we did get attacked by a foreign country? I can tell you now that it would be like it is here.”

This quote was from Jacqueline Broome, DVM, a mixed practice veterinarian from Gulfport, Miss., who managed to save 30 horses on her farm by turning them loose to weather the storm with their natural instincts, but she lost 29 of the animals in her clinic in town.

VMAT-2 surveys the damage at Dr. Broome’s Clinic. Photo Courtesy of Dr. Edward Feinberg

Broome describes herself as a tough broad, who in her 40s has seen and done enough in life to toughen her to what is reality for people, and animals. Yet she also admits that she has cried every day since the hurricane hit