9:50am Update: The tornado warning has just been lifted and the horses are being allowed to return to the barns from their evacuation to the indoor arena. The jog has been rescheduled to 11am, weather permitting. For the latest, check out @SamanthaLClark Twitter feed. [Lexington Weather]
Evacuation in the indoor, photo via Samantha
The big news here at the Kentucky Horse Park as we await the jog this morning is the severe weather. Due to tornado warnings, all the horses and riders have been evacuated to the indoor arena for shelter from any potential severe weather. The horses and people are just milling about the indoor currently waiting for news of what is to happen next. Listening to the radio on the drive over, there haven’t been any tornadoes spotted on the ground, but there are tornado and severe storm warnings all over central Kentucky. As Annie mentioned, the jog was moved to 10am because of severe weather predicted for this afternoon, but the weather this morning isn’t much better. According to the radio, the warnings are expected to be lifted around 10am for most counties and things are already starting to look better.
Running to the indoor, photo via BW
I didn’t really appreciate the severity of the weather until I saw that the typically horrible Lexington traffic was nonexistent this morning. I turned on the radio and all the stations had storm coverage, and it was particularly disconcerting when the emergency storm coverage kept getting interrupted by emergency National Weather Service storm warning alerts.
Of course, stay tuned for the latest and a jog report as soon as it happens. Until we know more, I’ll leave you with a video of another very wet time for eventing, Fair Hill last weekend–from Buzzterbrown.
Go eventing.
