Hurricane Harvey

[OneFineAcre]

Very glad to hear from you and that you and your wife are OK.
I'm also glad that it seems your losses are not as great as they could have been.
I hope you find those missing cows.

 

[farmerjan]

@greybeard, am so glad to see your posts. I have been watching faithfully on here and CT until I got into 2 days of testing that were marathon, so am now just getting back to check. Understand completely about the restricted computer time and hope that as things dry out some, that you will be able to salvage more than it may look at this time. I do hope that you are able to find your missing cows; and give someone else the joy of knowing that they also did not lose as many as they thought by their "relocating" to your place temporarily. I am sure there will be alot of that for awhile. Guess one thing to be grateful for, the 6' under the house is enough to withstand a 500 or even a 1000 year flood.
Maybe the next move in the future is to build a barn/shop with a floor 10 foot above ground level????? Then will have a safe place for the tools and the animals? God bless you and your wife. If there is anything that you need, please let us know and I am sure we will all try to help you in some way.

 

[Devonviolet]

We've had two very busy days, so I'm just now catching up.

It's been said many times, but it bears repeating. DH and I have been praying for you and your wife. We were starting to get worried when we hadn't heard from you in a while. We are so glad to hear that y'all are safe and were able to get back home, to find that the house survived the flood unscathed.

Your description, of your trip to dry ground, was great. It gave a good feel for what you actually went through. The photo of your boat tied to the tree, on the side of the road was cool.

I'm sorry to hear about your tools. Maybe when things have dried out, you will be able to clean them up a bit and get them back working, like your faithful truck.

 

[Ferguson K]

My gentle giant has decided he's a house dog.

We're tearing up the bathroom and have the front door open because they're bringing in the flooring. Flooring is completely rotted out from the roof leak.

He's had enough of the mud.

Hope everyone else is fairing OK.

My farrier is doing high water rescues and has rescued almost 100 horses. He and another friend of mine have lost a handful but they've saved more

My brother, cousin, and family friend have loaded a 17ft trailer of supplies and are Rockport bound.

 

[farmerjan]

God bless every one of you individuals that have gotten things together to take to help out someone down there. Those of us that can't, hopefully have made some sort of monetary contribution of some sort to help those organizations there to fill in around the cracks of what is needed. It's going to be a long hard row to hoe to recovery and there are places that will never be the same. Let's all hope that there are no more serious storms in the area any time soon.

 

[babsbag]

Love the dog...mine want to come is to get out of the heat.

 

[Baymule]

If anybody wants to donate, I recommend the Texas Baptist Men.

 

[Baymule]

I got this from the Cattle Today forum. It has links where you can donate to help the ranchers affected by hurricane Harvey. The ranchers will need to rebuild fencing, they have lost equipment, their homes or damage to their homes, they have lost cattle. Those lucky enough to still have their cattle will have to feed them. Their hay fields are water logged. Their hay is wet of washed away. Cows are hungry now.

http://app.tscra.org/cattle-raisers-establish-fund-to-help-ranchers-affected-by-harvey/


http://app.tscra.org/harvey-update-if-you-need-help-or-want-to-help/

 

[greybeard]

Thanks all for our kind words, thoughts and concern. And of course, for those prayers.
Electricity was restored yesterday afternoon but is out again this morning. Depressing...

I started inventorying and working on some of my equipment yesterday that got water in them. Not including portable tools..
2 gasoline powered pressure washers.
1 8n Ford tractor.
1 Honda 4 wheeler.
1 45hp diesel Leland tractor
1 zero turn Ferris mower with only 45 hrs on it.
1 Miller gas powered welding machine.
1 Hobart electric welding machine.
1 MTD lawn tractor.
1 2x3" gasoline powered water pump.
Craftsman tablesaw.
Craftsman radial arm saw.

I have a 200 gal propane tank in the pasture just north of the house..owner unknown.
Piled up on fences I've been able to see:
Probably 50 5 gal buckets from 'somewhere'.
A dozen or so empty mineral/protein tubs.
3 utility poles.
several 55 gal barrels.
5-6 cross ties.
Lots of boards.
a couple dozen old tires.
The usual logs, branches and forest debris.

The HT barbed wire fences held up pretty good. Broke in only a few places where something heavy settled on top of them, but lots and lots of Tee posts leaned over from the water flow against all the debris.

I'll have to compost some round bales of hay but not sure how many.

 

[greybeard]

Hope everyone else is fairing OK.

My farrier is doing high water rescues and has rescued almost 100 horses. He and another friend of mine have lost a handful but they've saved more

My brother, cousin, and family friend have loaded a 17ft trailer of supplies and are Rockport bound.

Good folks, doing good things. God Bless 'em and hope they have a safe trip.
I cannot imagine the devastation and loss down around CC and Rockport.