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You'll probably miss this, considering the time of night, but I'll try, anyway.

I looked up the Public Storage company units in your area and it looks like the NOLA properties are still having major problems. There are probably not any units available, because their website is begging their old tenants to come get their belongings out or at least check on them.

But on the off chance that you can find ANY storage units available, whether it's Public Storage or not, that's worth a few phone calls to them. They even have trucks you can rent.

http://www.publicstorage.com/CorporateInformation/newOrleans.aspx

I recommend them because they only charge $1 for the first month's rent, which helps in situations like yours (like if you also have to pay some movers and have very little money).

Get yourself mobile, anyway, by putting your furniture in a storage place. If you can't find one, you can still rent a truck if you have to and find some high school or college boys to carry and load things for you. Then drive the truck to near where you want to live, your Lakeview location, or a functioning area of NOLA (??), or someplace closer to TX--the trucks have hitches on them to haul your car behind you.

Also, if so many people had to be out of the FEMA hotel rooms this week, maybe there are hotel rooms available for a couple of nights, so you could park the truck, spend a night or two re-grouping with your pets alongside, and then decide what to do.

I just went through the same thing 2 years ago (I say "just" because it destroyed my life, made me physically ill and I am still living with the complications of it--so it seems like yesterday, plus I'm old and time flies). No one helped me move, had a houseful and lifetime of things, plus inventory and archives of my two businesses, and not a penny to my name.

All I wanted was one month without rent expenses and a neighbor gave me that. There was no other help for me unless I stripped myself of my last assets, which was as unthinkable to me as leaving your pets is to you. Luckily, I am living off of them, but have only $40-50 to live on each month, while trying to furnish a place to live. I have no car and can't get to my belongings in storage.

I know it will go well for you after this, as you don't have these same handicaps. You will find out you are stronger than you think. As a female, I would no more live in a homeless shelter in NOLA than I would live in one in Houston, TX, so don't let anyone tell you to do that--you know THEY wouldn't. That is suicide.

The main thing is to get your belongings and yourself mobile. FWIW, I know Jesus looks out for cherished pets because I always had plenty in my pockets and in the bank while my pup was alive--He was taking care of her! I'm not quite as lovable, evidently!

You're going on my Prayer List and I hope a miracle happens!