Baymule,
I am choosing to have fun
during all these strange and unusual weather patterns...if not, I might be carted off immediately in a straight jacket to the funny farm. And that would not be any fun at all!
I am doing my best to both learn and maintain a good attitude during all these unusual occurrences...I would like to come out of these experiences as a better person....yes, more wise, more knowledgeable, more understanding, and more sweet. That sure beats coming out of this angry, bitter, mean, and feeling and looking older than I really am. I have met and even worked with negative, mean, angry, bitter people in the past and they always appear to be the most miserable of all other people on the planet. So I suppose attitude has an awful lot to do with how we "weather" different circumstances... So, my greatest goal is to choose a good attitude and come out of this better.
Bruce,
Last year, the animals began to use the three sided shed during every rain storm. They knew where it was, and headed to it during any significant rain. The hoop house is a strange story...not even one hoof print since it went up. Not sure why...
I have closed off the three sided shed this week because we have had so many storms that for the very first time ever, we smell the strong smell of ammonia...and it is nearly overwhelming. It never even smelled like ammonia in the past [we diligently cleaned it], but now the smell is extremely strong.
I purchased some PDZ and tried it for the first time ever...all to no avail. The smell is still overwhelming.
Everything is wet, wet, wet here...including the inside of the three sided shed. I believe the three sided shed became super wet due to wet animals continually going inside after becoming wet outside.
We built the hoop house on the opposite side of the property of the three sided shed because we have recently split our flock for the very first time. For now, I think we will simply let the sheep hangout without any shelter...and see how this pans out. The last few lambs have all been born in the rain, took their first few steps in the rain, slept in the rain, ate in the rain, in short, have done everything in the rain...last year, I wouldn't even dare think of doing this...I thought it was a recipe for total disaster...as in losing our entire flock.
Here we are, wet as can be, yet no pneumonia, no upper respiratory infections, no problems at all. This is all kind of an eye opener for me.
Special update: came home today and noticed our new born lamb is drinking from mama and looks healthy as can be. The lamb is no longer shaking and tonight I just saw the lamb laying down, side by side with mama, so I think mama is keeping her warm.
Was saying save a lamb or set of lambs that will die without help due to some unusual/mitigating circumstances, that would have survived had those circumstances not been present. But I wouldn't leave the flock fenced into a pasture that was about to be flooded with 6 feet of water from a 1000 year flood. Need to apply a little common sense. Pretty sure I said "unnatural climatic conditions leading to imminent death..." a hail storm doesn't qualify under that description. 
