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Kathy Sierra · 1 year ago

Thanks so much for this post Louis. I only recently moved to the SC mountains, and while my house was not in the evacuation zone, I keep my horses on a vineyard in Corralitos! I spent all day and night yesterday evacuating first my own horses and then as many others as I could help. The smoke was awful and the horses were rightfully freaked out, but we managed to get 30 of them (including two newborn foals) out to the beach, and everyone is in good shape.

It was *awesome* to see how helpful people in the area were -- out in Corralitos we had several people stop when they saw us with horses and trailers to ask if they could help, and people were evacuating horses (and any other animals they could see) wherever they found them. It scares the hell out of me to think that if the horses had been less than a half-mile up the road, we probably would have been stopped. (Last year my sister went through a police barricade in Moorpark to rescue *her* horse, although it was way too late for evacuation).

The power was out in our house yesterday, but was restored last night.
It does make you think, though -- I'm looking around right now at all the *stuff* in my house realizing how little of it I cared about when I had only 5 minutes to grab stuff and get out. Is it awful of me to admit that I packed my iPod *before* the cute second-grade school photo of my daughter? ; )

Louis Gray · 1 year ago

Kathy, thanks for your story. I'm glad you're doing okay and your home will be safe, though it sounds like a hard ordeal, to say the least.

As for your choices of iPod vs. school picture... you can always take more pictures. An iPod is like having another child. Take care of it and you will have many future memories together.