Comments on: Have you had any weather emergencies?

By: Tango & Amber

Tango & Amber — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 07:05:00 +0000

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." :]

By: Driver

Driver — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 07:05:00 +0000

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.

By: Aleechawa

Aleechawa — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 07:05:00 +0000

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!

By: Bree J

Bree J — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 07:05:00 +0000

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…

By: ~<3 La La KoTa<3~

*~*<3 La La KoTa<3*~* — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 07:05:00 +0000