Posted on 08/07/2007 7:33:14 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
This is a horse chat thread where we share ideas, ask for input from other horsemen, and talk about our riding and horse-keeping. We have a lot of different kinds of riders and horses, and a lot to share, usually about our horses, sometimes about our dogs, gardens and other stuff we do. :~)
I have a ping list for horse threads that are of interest, and MissTargets will ping everyone most mornings. Let MissTargets and/or me know if you would like to be on the ping list.
So... like the previous threads, this is intended as fun place to come and share stories, pictures, questions and chit-chat, unguided and unmoderated and that we come together here as friends.
Previous threads:
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread - thread ONE
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread - Thread TWO!
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread - Thread THREE!
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread FOUR
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread FIVE
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread SIX
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread SEVEN
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread EIGHT
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread NINE
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread TEN
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread 11
New folk and occasional posters, jump right in and introduce yourselves, tell us about your horses, and post pictures if you've got them!
So where are you moving FROM? NC is such a pretty state. What part are you moving to?
Hey there... just hearing reports of more severe storms down there... are your hatches battered?
Well, as much as they ever get. It looks to be just west of me, back over the MS state line. Prolly get here in another hour or so. We’ve been in under a tornado watch for most of the day, but it’s not even started raining her yet. But they let all the schools out around 12:30, so apparently they’re thinking it’s going to get pretty bad. Probably will right about time for me to go home.
They’re talking about hail an inch in diameter. If you get anything like that you HAVE to take pictures for me. I can’t even imagine.
Oh GAWD! I sure HOPE not!! That’d beat a car, or a HORSE, to death! But yes, if we get it I’ll definately take pictures.
Be careful out there, I don’t mean to make light of it. It looks like it’s going to be a wild afternoon for you.
It looks like the worst of it has blown over. It kinda split and went around the county where I work, but looked like it went right over where I live, so I guess I’ll find out if anything got blown away when I get home.
You heard anything from Becky?
No - haven’t heard from Becky today.
Hope your place is fine.
You’re not going to believe this... we just had a little tornado reportedly touch down in Vancouver WA... just north of the Oregon border... a couple hours South of here!
LOL!! Now THAT’S strange!
Watching the news coverage now... The regular weather guy is out and the stand-in is having the day of her life. What a day to take the day off!
They’ve got a picture of a blown-down billboard frozen on half the screen... the red blob storm radar on the other half.. and hysterical and/or excited callers on the phone.
It’s a fairly populated area... it may have crossed I-5 right in Vancouver.
The standard answer given to a news-person when interviewing a tornado victim. ;o)
That’s about it! We had one of those.
And we had people in the Fred Meyer parking lot getting hit by flying shopping carts. “Shopping carts were hitting my car, and rolling out into the road and hitting other cars”
This is a pretty big event for around here. I’m supposed to be heading to the store to get horse bedding... but I hate to tear myself away.
Ooooo, flying shopping carts!! You get bonus points for that!
Are you laughing at our tiny tornado? ;~)
Tornado Touches Down In Vancouver Neighborhood (Washington State!)
{knocks on wood too}
Looks like from the pics on the link on that thread you posted that they got marble-sized hail too. Not fun! I’ve had quarter-sized hail at my house before, but luckily not for long. Plus it wasn’t round ball-type hail. It was more flattened. So although it was fairly large in diameter, it wasn’t nearly as heavy as if it’d been solid. Plus I think the flat shape made it catch more air so it didn’t come down as fast. But that’s all purely speculation on my part.
We had a freak hail storm a few years ago. It came out of nowhere. Baseball size with a few that looked like soft balls. Never seen anything like it before.
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