My wife and I rent out a vacation cabin by our
house here in the Smoky Mountains about 30 minutes west of the Biltmore. We
just received an email from the county Chamber of Commerce wondering who has
vacancies for this weekend due to the hurricane possibly driving a lot of "low
landers" up this way. I do not expect the hurricane to effect us(Biltmore ride)
at all and think that coming to the ride would be the perfect storm "get away".
A few years ago hurricane Floyd hit NC(probably more directly than Isabelle is
going to) and we had literally no effects from it here although it tore up
Charlotte and Raleigh. Actually, I have my 2 horses on 6 acres of pasture and if
someone needs to bring their horses here during the storm let me know. There
is also a friend of mine who has a barn who rents it out as a horse motel
just a few miles away. As a matter of fact, Howard is staying there now. He came
back through here from the Big South Fork ride. He had found my friends barn on
the internet and did not know I lived so near. Had him over last night. He wants
to come up here sometime later with his wife and keep his horses at the "horse
motel" and stay in our cabin.
