THIS is what flooding looks like!!

[applesandoats]

So, you have heard about our ongoing predicaments each time the track floods, well if you go to 'the Telegram' or 'google' and search 'flooding at racetrack', you can see what the fuss is all about....THREE times in eight days!!!
A big ginormous THANK YOU to Carol and Embarr Stables for kindly taking many of our horses in this past week. I understand that Aiden Williams also took some of the horses in, so thanks to that stable and the boarders there who accommodated the upheaval, and thank you to anyone else who may have given a horse a dry stall this week.

[unino]

Holy Crap! now thats flooding! Isnt there anything they can do to pervent this?

[hjcayus]

The area is getting more and more built up and each year the track seems to flood more often and worse each time. It appears to be in a hollow so it ends upbeing the catch basin.

Ok, Holy Crap I just looked at those photos. I know the track floods but haven't actually seen what it looks like til now. That is not good. So glad there are barns close by willing to help by taking horses out of that water!

[krys]

All I can think of is the poor horses.
I guess most are used to it by now, but it must be so scary for them.
Owners too.

I'm so happy everyone is always willing to help in any way they can.

[applesandoats]

People are really good in times like that I have to say, and even the most agitated horse knows theres trouble and they just stay real quiet and they trudge through. Harlequinn is petrified of the sound of water and he does not like it, but when I opened his gate Wed night and he was up to his ankles and in the aisle the water was up to his belly, he just stepped out and walked slowly through, they just know, and it IS scary when the water rises from ankles to mid thigh in twenty minutes. The guys are great with trailers also, they just load and go and sometimes this is all though the night.

[Kayla D]

Our indoor is now filled with pretty little racehorses, and our tack room has a little mini visitor. Sprocket keeps looking after the mares when they go by. I think it is great how everyone comes together when a tragedy like this happens, even if we all don't get along at the best of times.

I think the most horrifying thing of all out of this mess is the loss that people have experienced. Most people have lost all there hay, grain and sawdust. It must be so hard to rebuild after a flood this bad.

Here are a few more pictures that are on Facebook:

[Sabrina]

That's horrible . It's a great thing that the horse community in NFLD (St Johns area) is pulling together to help the horses and owners from the racetrack get through this.

[applesandoats]

the final count of loss in our little barn was 180 bags of dust and 24 bales of hay, over half tonne. That was my fifth load of lost dust in 11 months due to rains and flooding ......
Our barn always floods first due to being lower and the section where Wayne is leading the mini floods last so you can just imagine the height of water in areas, last November that same mini had to be evacuated in a tractor bucket. It can get crazy, but most everyone pulls together and all the horses get out safely.

[alida]

The track rarely used to flood to the point that horses had to be evacuated. Contributing factors to the increased water levels are...new infrastructure road work, ie. larger culverts and dredging on Doolings Line...also acres of low lying land is being loaded with fill to build houses, and farmland is being developed from what used to be a wooded slope. Consequently the rain water runs off the farmland, pavement and down the storm drains even faster than before into the two rivers that flow into the pond behind the track. There is nothing that can be done about the flooding suituation even if there was no financial limit to persuing a solution.

[shelly]

Wow! That's horrible! There has to be something that can be done as this flooding problem just keeps getting worse and worse.

[shazam]

I can honestly say that I have never seen anything as crazy as I did when I got to the track Saturday afternoon. The water was half way up the side of the industrial garbage cans!!!

It was a tight squeeze in our barn as we were full to start with, but we turned our arena into a paddock, and our tack room into a stall and in the end all of the ponies were dry, warm and full The visitors were great ... and I know of one little mini that our girls will be putting up a fight to keep

And I just have to say KUDOS to everyone for coming together and getting everyone out and accommodated. It was nice to the harness and saddle people working together as well. I also know that if the tables were turned, the guys and gals at the track would have our backs as well.

[katlyn]

Thats not even fit. Ohh my. !
I was so shocked when i heard of that i wants to go in a help only if mom let me go. :\

Poor horses are they alright now?
Thank god there is spossed to be another fishing weekend, because if there wasn't probaly everyone wouold have there fishing gear put away.!

like i said hopeful everyone is safe.
i heard a few people if there rcetrack was on a crater. lol .

[katharine]

Ohh my thats a lot of water.... not good

[relaxen2]

holy $*%#!!!! i am here to volunteer,if you guys need any help-just msg me and i'll be there!!!

[smudgers]

I'm glad everyone and all the horses were OK, I know Karen made room for a few of them. Hopefully something will be thought of to help prevent this from happening again.