OCALA, Fla.—As Hurricane Helene churned toward Florida’s Gulf Coast, Maggie Nelson wasn’t worried about her own safety in the storm.
The 22-year-old Texas transplant fretted, instead, about her two horses.
Trapper is a gentle, retired, six-time-world-champion jumper with a speckled coat, and Edna is a reddish beauty with a temperamental streak. How could she leave them outside when she was safe indoors? Nelson asked herself.
It wasn’t the predicted storm surge that had her worried. And it wasn’t the wind. Not exactly.
What terrified her was the thought of the debris that would be flung by Helene….