My sister Amata lives in Santa Fe New Mexico where she founded a sheep sanctuary in 2004. Amata has multiple physical disabilities but has dedicated her entire life to caring for aging, injured and unwanted lambs, sheep, goats and horses. Her work is completely volunteer with no financial compensation. The animals are her family and she is completely committed to them.

Last  week Santa Fe experienced extreme storms and flash flooding in what experts are calling a 1000 year event. During the torrential rains the arroyo behind her property was converted into a raging brown river with high waves and tumbling rocks. The waters rose 25 feet within minutes.  Additionally 3 to 4 feet of water rushed down from the mountains, through Santa Fe  and  continued to rush through the house and sanctuary. The house, corrals and property were completely flooded and destroyed.

Read about flood in the 3 articles below:

http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/flooded-out-residents-in-santa-fe-face-daunting-task/article_a83f06c5-ea18-588e-adc2-0875f899ee67.html 

https://www.abqjournal.com/1200424/santa-fe-flood-caused-by-historic-rainfall-hits-hard.html 

:http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/flooding-in-santa-fe-a--year-event/article_571cabc2-85c3-5d4a-ba29-95e920ddc3ac.html 



Water flooding the animal enclosures 

 As soon as the water began to rise in her house she waded through the waist high water to the corrals to rescue an angora goat named Pearl that was in her hospice care but the goat’s cot was under water and the goat was already drowned .
Pearl Before the flood

Pearl after the flood waters receded. 

The Red Cross arrived the following day and inspected the property. Her house is one on the 14 homes that they have  classified as “DESTROYED” and the RED CROSS says that it is one of the 2 worst hit in the entire storm and completely uninhabitable.. As of today my sister has no home and over 60 animals to care for. All  of the animals food was flooded and destroyed as well.

There is no flood insurance  on the house.

 Interior house 
Amata’s bed
Ruined Fleeces 
Ruined goat coats valued at $50 each
Ruined animal foodRancid mud filled animal troughs 
Stinking muck being clean out of the stalls
I am starting this fundraiser so that we can humbly request assistance for the overwhelmingly massive cleanup and rebuilding of the house , property and animal enclosures that we will be facing in the coming months. Amata will also need temporary housing during the process which will need to be specific for her health needs. It will also be necessary to find new homes for some of the animals as well. It is a dire  circumstance but we are optimistic that with help from our friends and kind hearted people in our communities that we can recover from this unbelievable and horrific disaster.

Expenses will include:

Paid team of cleanup help. We do not have volunteers yet.

Fans to dry up the water

Rip put 3 to 4 feet of damaged drywall in entire house

Replace water lines 

Temporary living space for Amata

Complete refurbish of house including
appliances

Complete refurbish of corrals

Replacement food for animals

And so much more that I will be detailing soon.