Re: Hurricane over France

[Bette Lamore <woa@stormnet.com>]

Hi Heather 
I'm so relieved you're OK. It's funny, we've never met face on but I
feel you're my friend, as is Howard and Sylvia, and Pat, and Heidi
and...on ...and ..on..I've been telling horse friends they should join
for the wealth of knowledge, but also for the real camaraderie, yes even
with all the bickering--makes for spices in the stew as long as no one
takes it too seriously. Look at Pat Super and me---started off with
misunderstanding and now, many posts later, I think of her as a good
friend. So I guess before I get too misty eyed I should go to bed BUT
one again, I'm really glad you're OK. Thanks for returning my post.
Oh I should tell David, I figured out this signature thing. You just cut
and paste. Voila!
Bette Lamore
Whispering Oaks Arabians, Home of TLA Halynov
Central Coast California
http://www.stormnet.com/~woa

"hn.heather" wrote:
> 
> > Hey Heather
> > How are you doing over there? I hate to make a new friend just to lose
> > her in a windstorm.
> 
> Hi Bette
> Yeah, back online now, albeit with my pc installed in someone else's house
> coz still no power at home after 9 days.........
> Hey it got a bit blowy for a while last Monday, started around 6pm & carried
> on thru the night, gusts of over 170kmh, highest winds in living memory.
> We fortunately suffered no major damage.  Cypruss tree down next to the
> house but it fell away from the house, fell on a rather sad old shed which
> is now even sadder!  However it was a useful shed, housed the lawn-mower,
> the electric fence controller & suchlike junk.
> We have 2 horse buildings, one old stone barn with interior boxes & one
> "Dutch" barn with 10x10 electric tape pens.  The stone barn has big double
> doors, solid oak, dread to think what they weigh, well they got lifted off
> their hinges, one fell outside, one inside.  The horses in must have
> practically died of fright when that happened.
> Some tiles off the roof & a couple of poplar trees down in the fields but no
> damage to humans or horses.
> Interestingly in the Dutch barn there are 6 pens, 4 up one end & 2 up the
> other end with hay, tractors etc inbetween.
> In the 4 pens are 4 experienced "been there, done that" endurance horses.
> These old-timers had to be turned back out in their paddocks at around 7pm
> because they were going "ape" & were obviously going to make their own way
> out if not let out.  OK the barn roof was vibrating some......up the other
> end were 2 2yr old colts who normally live out, brought them in coz it had
> been cold & rainy all day & felt sorry for them.  They ate their supper lay
> down in their nice shavings bed & slept it thru!  Perhaps their instincts
> are just blunted!
> Apparently the problem with the power is the number concrete pylons down
> (thousands) & the power people just don't didn't have enough to replace
> them, they've bought in from Spain & Portugal & all over.
> Also lots of trees down obstructing access to pylons & transformers.
> One village in the Medoc, wine area north of Bordeaux, was completely
> flooded, 1m5 of water in the houses in just 10 mins!  Puts things in
> perspective.
> I think the death-toll, including the winds that ripped up Paris & the north
> of France over the Xmas w/end, is up to around 100.
> There are people in isolated areas of France, particularly heavily forested
> areas, who won't have power back before the end of the month!
> OK this is nothing to do with endurance but thought you might like to know.
> When I got online I had over 600 messages in my mail-box & have JUST got
> thru reading/deleting.  That was after logging onto Compuserve & checking my
> english/australian mail-box where there were another 200-odd.  Wow, will
> never again complain that no-body loves me!
> Will try & send my 2 cents worth on current topics & reply to a couple of
> people who have posted me questions.
> Ciao
> Heather

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