Something from Katrina

In 2006, Congress passed the Pets Evacuation and Transportation Standards Act. This was done in response to the 1,000's of people who refused to evacuate without their companions during Katrina and from people in other parts of the United States who saw people having to evacuate while being forced to leave their animals behind.
According to this story on MSNBC, the PETSA worked during Hurricane Ike and many more people and their pets were evacuated safely.
It is nice to know something that came out of the devastation that was Katrina works.