Have you had any weather emergencies?
We have had very heavy rain for the last two days. A lot of it has fallen in our mountains (well over 200mm) and it is melting the snow up there. This is sending heaps of water down the mountains and combining with the already saturated ground in lower towns.
The flood waters are rising and many of the roads are cut off. So hopefully most of the people camping at the show left last night when they could or they will be visiting our town for a while yet. 1000’s of homes are evacuated.
We are fine here, no major rivers near us. My grandmother has her horse standing up on a dam bank surrounded by water, hopefully it stops rising soon. If not we will take our cattle truck (only vehicle that might get through the waters?) to load up her horse, cattle and some sheep. We have offered our property as a horse evacuation point to people.
Floods are not new to me, as our horse stud was at the bottom of these mountains and used to flood every couple of years, often at peak breeding time. Keeping 500 horses safe was sometimes interesting, but we never lost any.
What weather emergencies have you had to keep your horse safe from? Floods, fires, tornados, cyclones?
They had an earthquake in New Zealand yesterday. Mother nature is not happy!
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Wow! That sounds pretty horrible out there. :[
I haven't had to keep my horse safe from anything, but one time I put him in the barn while is was raining. He stayed in there with me for a few minutes, and when I left, he trotted out of the barn and stood out in the rain again.
That was been all my weather "emergencies." :]
The worst I’ve had here is a blizzard. We got about 48" of snow last year in a few days. My horses were miserable and so was I, since I had to somehow break through it all to get to the barn. I must have shoveled my path out 10 times before it stopped drifting back over!
In 2003, we had a hurricane come through. It dropped two big trees right across my driveway, and one through my fence.
One thing I won’t have to worry about is floods since I’m at the top of a hill, although one year a culvert washed out on our gravel road but we were able to get out through the other end of the road.
Here in our Kentucky Mountains we had a bad flood a few years back & the creek got up into my foaling barn in late March. I had 5 babies & mares in there! I ran, fell & finally made it through the rain & flood & got to my foaling barn. I was crying & Praying! Just as I got to the back double doors that I was wondering how i would open, my lead mare with her baby kicked it open & out came my sweet flood of mama’s & babies! The water was up to the belly’s of the mares. i hoped on one mare & we rode to the house barn where i lived & had 4 stalls there with my yearlings! everyone crowded in & i dried them off & gave them sweet feed & lot’s of love!
And I was complaining coz of 2 days of rain we’ve had in QLD!!
We’ve been pretty lucky as to weather emergencies. I think the biggest emergency was from really strong winds bringing trees down in the paddock and one of the horses getting caught under one. Thankfully she was ok. She just stayed under the fallen tree until we got there and then got up and ran away! Silly mare…
I havent had any real weather emergancies but this summer has been VERY hot an d weve had alot of tornado watchs/warnings and also thunderstorms, but so far God has blessed us not have any bad stuff happen:)
GOOD LUCK ………….!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!