Storm 2006: Horse owner relives animal evacuation

you know, storm 2006 left no part of town untouched. in the upper valley — horse owners were forced to move their animals to higher ground. abc-seven’s stephanie valle spoke with one woman about the trying situation: 53 the water just kept getting higher and higher and higher. dawn oakley was in the upper valley august first, 2006 — when the rains came. 1.28 i’m not short. i’m 5’8″. the water was midway up my thighs. 1.33 and so we had to get the horses out of there. 1.36 the horse owner’s main concern — her four horses. one of them, a miniature. 2.31 horses have a tendency of having a lot of problems with their feet and legs if they’re in a lot of water. so we had to get them out. 2.38 1.36 once we got them up onto emory, we had to take them past police cars and a fire engine. the horses had to walk under a yellow tape in order to get through. 1.49 but that was only the beginning of the trying times for oakley — 4.25 i just could not believe how much rain. 4.28 and other trainers. 4.32 most of us as trainers with horses on a lower ground were like, “what ar we going to do? they still need to be exercised.” 4.4 so, i would load my horses up in a trailer and take them up onto the mesa — even in the rain, pouring rain — they still got their exercise. 4.48 she said — thankfully, the horses remained healthy. ten years later — she’s always prepared for another major storm. 5.29 i brought in more sand so i could get the horses up out of the water if i had to. so i did bring in more sand, as did other people. 5.39 we’ve never seen anything like it again, but, i’d rather be prepared than caught unawares again. 5.47 as ready as can be — for the unpredictable. sv, abc-7. and our coverage of storm 2006, then and