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Trail conditions are truly the least of your worries. Consider the
effects of 40-100 mph winds on your rig and your horse in a portable
corral in the open space. Winds of only 40 mph can pick up the panels of
your portable corral and slam them into you, your horses, your rigs, and
anything else around. Trailers can be picked up and moved, whole trees
felled, huge branches fly through the air like dead leaves. We're not
talking inconvenience and minor injury here -- hurricanes cause death and
destruction, and I'm not joking. It's not just a media frenzy -- take it
from those of us on the Gulf Coast who have lived through them year after
year.
If you get lucky, and all your ridecamp & trail suffer is an excess of
rain and light winds, you still need to watch for downed trees and mud
bogs in low-lying areas. Four days after Hurricane Danny (this past
July), my friend and I got our horses stuck to their bellies in mud that
we couldn't see -- we were walking quietly on a pine needle-covered trail
that we had traversed only the week before, without incident, when
suddenly both horses just fell right out from under us. My horse popped
out fairly quickly, but our companion horse took several minutes to free
himself, and came out shaking from head to toe so severely, we spent about
15 minutes standing on the trail, watching to see whether he could even
walk back to the barn. And Danny was one of the wimpiest hurricanes I've
ever seen!!
Don't take any chances. Watch that weather forecast. You do not want to
be driving or camping anywhere in the "zone" during a hurricane landing.
Glenda R. Snodgrass
Before you begin, consider ... The Net Effect
http://www.theneteffect.com
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On Thu, 25 Sep 1997 TrotALongK@aol.com wrote:
> << I don't know how much wind and rain this storm will bring but I think we
> all better start
> thinking about it.>>
>
> Hm, I guess I'm an optimist and hope that it'll be just one of those media
> hysteries.
> And what are we're going to do if it rains on Friday? We'll go anyway!
> There're only a few rides down here in So.Cal, besides Tar Springs the
> weekend after Manzanita there's Sunland in mid November - and that's it for
> this year untill the Warner Springs Ride in early January (please let me know
> if I'm missing something here!). And at a Terry Woolley Ride nothing can go
> wrong!!!
> So we - Scatris, myself and a few friends - are not going to let a hurricane
> stop us..... Remember Terry's Mt.Laguna Ride in early June in the same area?
> There was this incredible thunder storm the night before but it was gone the
> next morning, the trails were soft and the sky overcast untill about 10am
> (since I moved to L.A. I'm considering a cloudy day a nice day).
> My horse grew up in north-west Oregon, he's seen some rain and so have I, who
> grew up in Germany (where people sometimes forget what the word summer means).
> Not having TV might also help....
>
> Kirsten
>
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