Eeks! Severe Thunderstorm and TORNADO warning for my region...

[big brown horse]

Hope you and your family are staying safe in the storm.

 

[trestlecreek]

Are you okay?

 

[2468herdsrgr8]

Hey Lupin ! Are you okay?.....Are phone was ringing last night because Milton got hit last night ..very close to us ....I missed it all ! I was preoccupied ..and we dont usually watch the news ....Heard they called a state of emergency in Vaungh ...sorry dont know how to spell that one ....where Wonderland is and the reptile place ....Yikes .....hope your okay ...

 

[lupinfarm]

Yep, my dad said that about 75 houses in Vaughan were wiped out. Also, there was a big incident at a horse show as well.

We're all good here, the horses survived the night despite the lightening show that went on closer to the field. The chicken coop has a huge roof leak, we knew we had a small drip but we put a bucket under it last night incase and now the bucket is full. The ducks are good, my fencing is still up Some people didn't fare as well, lots of downed trees and a farmers fencing is downed outside madoc (we passed by and there was a cow on the front lawn of a house grooming another cow over the fence LOL, the lawn is a house that is surrounded by cattle on all sides but doesnt actually have animals themselves).

 

[lupinfarm]

Lots of wind here, HUGE lightening show, but it ended around midnight and we just got rain the rest of the night where *we* are but our township covers a lot of KM and I'm certain some large barns are downed...

 

[Bronco Hollow]

Glad you both are OK!! and glad that all the animals made it through too!!!

I just couldn't live in an area that have that type of storm...just too scary!

 

[big brown horse]

Yeah, I thought about you all night, I'm glad to hear you are ok.

I do hate to hear about large barns down though, I hope all the animals are ok.

 

[lupinfarm]

Alive and kickin'

I was most worried about the duck house being that is in on deck blocks and not actually sunk in the ground, but the ducks are... alive and quacking up a storm this morning (awful PO'd that they had to go in to their house early last night due to the storm)

 

[lupinfarm]

There is currently a discussion going on on the EMG forums as to whether your horse is safer inside or outside during a tornado or major storm. Most all government issued tornado and thunderstorm instruction and information websites reccommend leaving horses outside during intensive storms and tornadoes because they are better able to escape a tornado or storm outside than inside.

Unfortunately a lot of these people on the EMG forums believe that their horse is safe under trees, or in run-in shelters during these storms. I would have thought that a story only weeks ago about 3 horses dying after the apple tree they stood under was hit by lightening...

Whatever happened to common sense? Don't stand under trees... and the like

 

[lupinfarm]

The power has gone out, and a huge set of storm clouds have rolled in. It looks worse than what the weather network is calling for, "Cloudy with showers' as there is lightening. The poor goats are out in this.. I made them a little house, but I wasn't expecting a full on storm tonight so I didnt finish it, merely threw some plastic sheeting on it to keep it dry inside for the night. There is a tarp above the run, so I think I'l be going out there several times a night to tip the water out of the tarp.

There are no lights and it is pitch black out.. I am so worried about my girls! Their first night here and they are in the middle of a big thunderstorm! ... My biggest worry above all is my run flying away. Granted the run has never done this before, but im still worried.

Someone tell me it'll be okay!! ... I have lots of hot coffee so if the need calls for it, i'll stay up all night to make sure they are okay.