During the snow storms on Jan. 25 and Feb. 22, the two remaining colony cats - 12-year-old Freddie and 8-year-old Blackie - were completely buried and trapped underneath the containers by snow piled by plows working to clear the school's parking lot, Hernandez said. Photos show the narrow space beneath the steel containers entirely sealed off, with no space for the cats to leave.
Brigitte Bardot's image as a free spirit who defied convention made her a powerful symbol of women's liberation in the 1950s and '60s. That reputation was not just for the cameras and red carpets; it extended into her personal life and how she styled her homes. This was in sharp contrast to her upbringing as the sheltered older daughter of a bourgeois Parisian family, raised among period furniture, oriental rugs, and other markers of refinement.