…Unless you live near a river.
Although Hurricane Irene thankfully turned out to be considerably less severe than many were predicting early last week, Irene left her mark on the east coast eventing community. The Green Mountain Horse Association (GMHA) in South Woodstock, Vermont, along with other eventing venues experienced hurricane related damage over the weekend.
Peter Atkins was kind enough to send us a few photos of the GMHA XC course as he was hacking through the property. Peter reported that the cross-country course and a couple of the rings have experienced a lot of damage from massive amounts of dirt being displaced, presumably from the overflowing river. Even though some of the stalls flooded in the barns there doesn’t appear to be any structural damage.
GMHA is scheduled to host their September horse trials in three weeks so hopefully with the typical Vermont attitude and a lot of help from friends the event will be on track. We have a call into GMHA to get more information on ways to help them out, and we’ll pass that along when we get it.
Fortunately, most of GMHA is still beautiful…
Beth Collier sent us a photo of Leonardtown, MD:
Go GMHA.
