Posted on 09/18/2018 5:27:27 PM PDT by SMGFan
We’re thrilled to report that the herds of wild horses that roam North Carolina’s Outer Banks have emerged from Hurricane Florence unscathed.
Cape Hatteras National Seashore and Corolla Wild Horse Fund both confirmed on social media over the weekend that their equine populations are safe and sound following Hurricane Florence’s lashing last week.
Corolla Wild Horse Fund herd manager Meg Puckett told The News & Observer that the wild herd found higher ground and grouped together against the wind and rain. People on the island also kept an eye on them.
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How not to drown. /s
Even Global Warming can’t kill them?
Does ManBearPig recognize this?
Childhood living is easy to do
They were ghostly. I sometimes have dreams about them.
Wow.
Thousands will be dead in 6 months... poor noble things...
It will all because Trump did not send oats...
The had the horse sense to run AWAY from the hurricane.
Check out Sable Island
No..he does not.
Horses are smarter than the local weathermen.
Rumor has it that Anderson Cooper got bucked off a wild stallion.
Another thing they won’t be able to blame Trump for...
Rumor has it that Anderson Cooper got bucked off a wild stallion.
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He should have stuck to gay men. Serves him right.
Interesting description...
Why did you think they were ghostly? Just curious.
We rented a beach house in the North Swan Beach section of the 4x4 area last summer, they’re running loose up there. They slept under the bayberry bushes surrounding the piling foundation of the house. The dunes had blown right up to the front porch which was 12 feet off the ground, so we saw them every morning at sunrise, unless the wind was blowing from inland. That’s the best time to see them on the beach. They go on the beach to get into the sea spray to escape mosquitoes. Had some excitement the night before we left out to go home, took the garbage out, didn’t think anything about it, didn’t turn on exterior floodlights. Nearly walked right into the rear end of one sticking out of those bayberries into the drive. Scared the hell out of me, was afraid my dog was going to get kicked or something. The horse seemed fairly unimpressed, just snorted and walked away. Sitting out on the porch at night, you hear them talking to each other back and forth, neighs, answering neighs from one direction, more in another direction. Pretty cool. It’s the so-called 4x4 section, you have to drive up the beach to get there, no real roads just sand. Just below the Virginia border, the last 12 miles of beach after the pavement ends in Corolla.
Neat stuff. The wild horses are a unique living part of NC and VA’s coast.
That said, I heard that a vet went out with the group checking on the horses. The only illness or injury they observed was that one, a Shetland pony, had a cold.
The vet noticed that it was a little horse.
The result of ship wrecks.
They are magnificent...definition of free...
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