SEL
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That's awful. We lost shelters but I'll take that over damage to a home any day xx
ALL Ok everyone?
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spotty_pony
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Very windy this afternoon here in South Lincolnshire! Neighbour had a big tree down blocking the road. Horses managed a couple of hours out this morning before I decided I saw a branch fall in the garden and spook them. I decided not to push my luck and brought them in as we had so much rain last night they were literally galloping through all of the mud and puddles. They were more than happy to come in and I am glad I decided to bring them in. Hopefully they will get a couple of hours out tomorrow before the monsoon which is forecast arrives! Looks wet and quite windy all weekend here!!
scruffyponies
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Feeling very pleased with ourselves. We have removed the tree from the ceiling and roof, cleaned it up and got a tarp over before it started raining. A permanent repair can wait for better weather.
Also cleared enough of the big Oak on the paddock track to be able to get the horses out.
Not a bad mornings work.
Also cleared enough of the big Oak on the paddock track to be able to get the horses out.
Not a bad mornings work.
ester
Not slacking multitasking
Well done SP, Mum's ordered new roof panels to be delivered Monday, unfortunatley for the ponies both fields fencing is still upright so they are back in the winter paddock instead of the extra grassy summer one for the day.
Good job I kept all of F's rug weights at least.
Good job I kept all of F's rug weights at least.
Aperchristmas
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A few trees/big branches down for us but luckily no major damage. Horses all fine thankfully!
rowan666
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Thankfully our stables are still intact, we lost one last time we had high winds but it was an unused one that needed to come down anyway so saved us half a job.. we've lost some more huge old trees though which is really sad but I'm choosing to see the silver lining and will just convert these into extra fence posts and X country jumps. Back field is flooded out again but on the plus side its great fun to ride through our "field lake", we still have jumps up in there from the last time it flooded, luckily horses also love playing in the water! The only thing I can't put a positive spin on is that we took down the old fence along the perimeter last week to replace with new and we haven't yet been able to complete the job with the relentless weather so my poor sheep have been stuck in a stable for a week now because they can't be trusted in the other fields
ILuvCowparsely
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My god how lucky this horse was. * Miracle in a storm * https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10159748741546101&id=280853116100
asmp
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After all my worrying about the horses (who were in) and my newish field shelter it was my trailer that got damaged ?. A shed blew on top of it. It may be cosmetic only just hoping the chassis isn‘t damaged. I’ll have to take it to a IFW dealer to get it checked out if driveable.
magicmoments
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We didn't have any property damage thankfully, but a tb's necked rug had been completely removed and was in a heap in paddock. Rug not damaged, although fillet string had come undone. Poor boy was so grateful to come in. I put a leg strapped rug on mine, thankfully, so she was ok.
SEL
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Spent the day clearing shelter roof from where it had scattered itself, along with coach bolts which had sheered off. Fenced off the demolished shelter and it'll have to stay until ground dries up. The one that had twisted has settled overnight and all 4 corners are back on the ground now. Fencing all fixed, just need the hawthorn tree off the stable roof.
Ratface
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One of the upsides of living on water is that the liklihood of trees, buildings etc crashing on one's home are virtually nil.
The downsides, so far, are having the far pontoons break up, ropes let go and hatches fly away.
However, riding out a Force 10 gale on an unusually high tide (6.3m) is rather uncomfortable.
I live on my barge on a wide tidal river in the South East of England. The barge is an old (1834) Humber Keel made of iron, overplated with steel in 1997 when I bought her. She's 50ft long, low to the waterline and around 40 tons in weight. Good sisal ropes and multiple fenders have, so far, kept us attached to our pontoon. The far pontoon dwellers, further up the yard, have not been so fortunate, with parts of their pontoon breaking up and a couple of boats sheering their moorings.
One of the good things about the river community is that we all look out for each other, have each others phone numbers and will turn out and help whenever asked. There's also a boatyard Facebook page that most of us are on, to keep up with whatever's going on.
Fortunately, so far, I've only had the hatch over the companion way (stairs down to the interior of the barge) blow away. I found it in four pieces on the foredeck and a kind neighbour came and closed the hatch opening with ply and screws. The hatch mending will wait for calmer weather.
Electricity still on, plenty of warm clothes, food for me and Grumpy Old Cat. Can't safely get off the barge at the moment but don't need to, so will sit it out with tea, books and aforementioned cat.
Mr Horse is (so far) safe at his wonderful YO's place. She's on the premises and has help ++ as required.
So, good luck all, and stay as safe as possible.
The downsides, so far, are having the far pontoons break up, ropes let go and hatches fly away.
However, riding out a Force 10 gale on an unusually high tide (6.3m) is rather uncomfortable.
I live on my barge on a wide tidal river in the South East of England. The barge is an old (1834) Humber Keel made of iron, overplated with steel in 1997 when I bought her. She's 50ft long, low to the waterline and around 40 tons in weight. Good sisal ropes and multiple fenders have, so far, kept us attached to our pontoon. The far pontoon dwellers, further up the yard, have not been so fortunate, with parts of their pontoon breaking up and a couple of boats sheering their moorings.
One of the good things about the river community is that we all look out for each other, have each others phone numbers and will turn out and help whenever asked. There's also a boatyard Facebook page that most of us are on, to keep up with whatever's going on.
Fortunately, so far, I've only had the hatch over the companion way (stairs down to the interior of the barge) blow away. I found it in four pieces on the foredeck and a kind neighbour came and closed the hatch opening with ply and screws. The hatch mending will wait for calmer weather.
Electricity still on, plenty of warm clothes, food for me and Grumpy Old Cat. Can't safely get off the barge at the moment but don't need to, so will sit it out with tea, books and aforementioned cat.
Mr Horse is (so far) safe at his wonderful YO's place. She's on the premises and has help ++ as required.
So, good luck all, and stay as safe as possible.
spotty_pony
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Back to windy and raining here again today - we have an amber warning for wind again until tomorrow. Horses have been out for three hours, I’ve mucked out and brought them back in. Now tucked back up in bed myself as not feeling 100% today.
HashRouge
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We have a yellow warning for wind which seems positively tropical compared to Friday's red warning. There was a big tree down over the road to the village where the horses live when I drove up yesterday. It came down in Storm Eunice and the road must be low priority for getting sorted. I'm hoping it will be gone today, though it's about the best place a tree could have fallen from my point of view - I just parked my car, went through the gate onto the footpath, and was with my horses in less than 5 minutes.
Petmurf
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It’s worse here today in West Yorkshire then it has been all weekend, strong winds, heavy rain and roads flooded so horses are in again today, Tommy is getting bored though but he wouldn’t want to be out in this weather anyway, Wednesday looks to be Ok this week and then the weekend so ? I can ride this week
Meowy Catkin
Meow!
It's awful here now. The rain is relentless and the flooding has begun. I'm so glad that the horses are up on the hill and that I stocked up on haylage this morning. Not sure if I'm going to be able to drive to my appointment tomorrow as the lower lanes and roads will be impassable.
Ceriann
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It’s pretty grim again - rain is heavier so horses back in after a few hours out. I feel more sorry for my sheep - ground is so wet it’s only a matter of time before their feet suffer! Fields are like lakes ?
Pearlsacarolsinger
Up in the clouds
We have just got back from a dog walk. We took the dogs in the car to a wood near where we used to livery. We were the only people there, it was wet underfoot and at one point I wondered if we had done the right thing when I heard a tree creaking but the dogs enjoyed it, we just hit a lull in the weather but blimey! On the way back it started hailing and we could hardly see where we were going. It's wild outside and I really don't think the horses have set foot out of the shelter all day.
Squeak
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It's horrible here too. I hadn't really realised we were due 60mph winds and the rain is far worse today. The animals seem to have got fed up of being huddled in the shelter for the last week, even though they have food and water in there, and so are just outside braving the weather.
Fair play to the Rambo turnout as the horse is still dry as bone and warm as toast.
Fair play to the Rambo turnout as the horse is still dry as bone and warm as toast.
Pearlsacarolsinger
Up in the clouds
Every road we drove on had water running like a river down the side, there was water running out of drystone walls and overflowing from ancient horse-troughs, while several covers were off in the middle of roads because they just could not accommodate the water flowing through. Fortunately we are almost at the top of the hill, so although our land is very wet, we won't actually be flooded. I'm supposed to be going for lunch in Mytholmroyd though, on Tuesday. That plan may have to change, if this rain carries on.
COldNag
Wasting my time successfully....
It is horrible here, very blustery and wet. I really need to take my dogs out and have been putting it off.. I am hoping they will not want to go too far!!
oldie48
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It's been horrible here this afternoon, very windy with heavy rain. This morning I noticed we've got another French Poplar down but fortunately it's fallen along the hedge line not into the lane, we've sadly lost 5 over the past few years! I'm looking after a neighbours hens and rabbits while they are away for a few days, I've just got back from putting them to bed and they were all, bar one, in their hutch/house. One hen who was in with a rabbit! Half the roof of one hen house was off and feed bins lids had gone too. It is just vile and there was just one egg, I think the hens are traumatised, poor things! I confess I had a lovely cosy afternoon in front of the fire watching Bohemian Rhapsody, reliving my mis-spent youth followed by binge watching you tubes of the first Live Aid, which is the anniversary of OH's first kiss.
Errin Paddywack
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Horrendous here when we fed the horses. Just made it back to the barn as the squall really hit. It was coming down so hard we couldn't see out. The old sheep in the barn were not impressed.
laura_nash
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The worse day for us so far this winter, by a long way. Lower fields are all flooding and we just had 3 hours with no power. Very windy and heavy hail.
Mrs. Jingle
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Same here - worse day so far, two beautiful old beech trees down, luckily fell onto an empty summer grazing field - but 5 more next to hay barn looking worryingly unstable. But every storm has a silver lining two very, very happy labs delighted to find a brand new big lake has emerged in one of the fields!
CanteringCarrot
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Petmurf
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That hail was bad and it came out of no where, made worse by the wind.
Havent heard about Mythamroyd today, they got hit bad a few years ago so praying they’re OK this time.
I live in a valley surrounded by fields and we now have new white water streams running down the fields, one straight into our back garden
Lois Lame
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Yikes, I didn't know your crazy weather was still going.
Hold onto your hats everyone and stay safe.
Hold onto your hats everyone and stay safe.
scats
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I’m pretty sure this is the worse storm we’ve had in over 20 years here. There’s been no let up all night and it’s absolutely wild out. Dreading going to the farm.
Peglo
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Sorry to hear some of you are still getting a battering. Take care everyone. Stay safe.
PinkvSantaboots
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It's pretty windy here but at least its dry as it has been raining constantly for 2 days, it's meant to get worse through this morning though, the horses are out and are happy enough they have hay out there.