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samleigh

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This is totally insignificant to those who have lost lives, family their homes in the last few days, this is a small insignificance to others problems but thought I'd tell u of our last 24 hrs.. anyone else been effected by the surge...my horses livery yard is on the bank of the river Trent, 6.30pm and it burst its banks, within half an hour we were wadding upto our waists, having moved ponies, horses to our highest field, not high enough, an hour later and we had very little dry land left and we had to evacuate, horsey friends, family with torches, make shift head collars, and we walked them, 8 in total, to a friends field were they spent the night..so proud of them all, they were so brave, lived as a herd for the night with no falling out, all became very attached to each other.. Thank goodness for amazing family, friends & neighbours for there help, so much obviously to sort out, lots of hard work to come as after a day of pumping water the yard is still knee deep and higher in places in water, feed rooms, tack rooms, stables, storage areas. We got them home again today, they will all be living out for the foreseeable future, we've been left with 2 fields useable, farmer brought us enough small bales of hay until the haylage is delivered again..yard bales are floating in the drive way, feed tonight was a scoop of emergency horse pony nuts on the floor on top of clean hay...we can't get to the buckets! Thoughts are with our yard owner who lost her beloved yard cat in the surge, her fish and has a damaged home..like I said a lot of hard work still to come! Thanks to my boss who let me have the day off to sort my boy.. How did the rest of you fair?
 
Im so sorry to read this, its been mt biggest worry over the last couple of days,my heart goes out to you all, it mustve been really scary and worrying . It sounds like youve all done the most fantastic job re locating the horses,in the most dangerous circumstances, very selfless and inspiring.I hope you get things sorted out and are back to normal very soon.
 
Ugh, that sucks . . . kudos to you for getting all concerned out safely and my thoughts are with you as you try and put the pieces back together. Our (former) home flooded a few years ago and it really is traumatic.

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Thoughts are with you, were very close to the Humber and although we were lucky in that only the bottom paddocks have flooded many of the liveries have flooded homes. Good luck getting sorted
 
In my area, East Anglia, there has been a lot of flooding, houses lost to the sea, beach huts gone, even a lifeboat station gone.,.a local pub is now an island, surrounded by 6 foot of water. The owner managed to move her livestock safely, but lost her chickens, ducks and turkeys and has a pub filled with water. In Ipswich by the waterfront, Dance East got flooded when the local drains exploded out, they simply couldn't cope with the water...
Thank goodness no-one has been killed, unlike in 1953.
It is amazing how animals behave so well when the chips are down, and people are trying to sort out a solution. I well remember the storms of 1987 when we lost the roof off our tack room and some stables. The horses seemed to love all the extra attention!

The good thing to have come out of all this, is that people are rallying round and helping each other.
 
How awful for all of you. At least the horses are safe I feel for YO losing her cat as I am a great cat lover. Wonderful how people rally round in times of crisis.

I used to live beside the River Blackwater, Essex, and remember stories of the 1953 floods. At least this time people knew the storm surge was coming.
 
Sorry to hear about your flooding OP, and anyone else's, well done to the horses and you!

Any chance the yard cat has got to a safe place, they're canny things.
 
Sounds like you all coped amazingly, soo sad about poor cat but glad the rest of you are OK. Hope the clear up isn't too prolonged and that the weather is kind to u until u r sorted.
 
Stencilface said:
Sorry to hear about your flooding OP, and anyone else's, well done to the horses and you!

Any chance the yard cat has got to a safe place, they're canny things.
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No unfortunately we found her in the conifers, hanging over a branch, it came to quick for her, think she got wet, struggled to get herself out of harms way and the cold night got her..
 
samleigh said:
No unfortunately we found her in the conifers, hanging over a branch, it came to quick for her, think she got wet, struggled to get herself out of harms way and the cold night got her..
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Oh no, sorry to hear it, I thought there might have been a chance if you didn't find her :(
 
samleigh said:
No unfortunately we found her in the conifers, hanging over a branch, it came to quick for her, think she got wet, struggled to get herself out of harms way and the cold night got her..
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That's so sad :(

I hope it doesn't take too long to clear up the mess and get back to some normality.
 
She was a sweetie, mrs puddles..lived in the tack room, liked a snooze in the hay barn, bit wary as she found the yard, liked it and decided to stay a few years ago..her partner, another stray, returned this morning scaling the trellis sideways, ninja style, was promptly locked in the house bathroom, with food and a bed..we're still hoping the yard cockerel returns in the next few days too.
 
I could not read and not send sympathy for everyone who has a damaged home and is facing a clean up after floods. So sad about yard cat. Well done for getting horses to safety, it must have been quite worrying in the dark.
 
I've had a rubbish day at work and reading this makes me realise how small my problems really are. So glad to hear your horses were fine and sorry to hear about the damage to your YO's home. Hopefully the cat's found somewhere safe to go to and will reappear x
 
Sorry to hear about your flooding. I'm glad the horses are safe and sound. My sympathy for your YO, we were flooded about 5 years ago and it is dreadful. The worst is losing the little things of sentimental value that cannot be replaced by insurance. I am sorry about the cat, luckily ours was indoors at the time so we could bundle him in a cat basket and put him out of harms way, he wasn't impressed though.
 
Oh how awful. So sorry for your yard owner, she must be struggling but hopefully she is surrounded by people who love her and can help her. Fingers crossed for you all, and that things get back to normality for you as soon as possible.
 
Gosh I have huge sympathy for any of you having floods - must be very scary and dreadful. What a shame about the little cat - but thank goodness and well done for rescuing the horses. Best wishes for no repeat and settling down quickly. xx
 
JustKickOn said:
Oh how awful. So sorry for your yard owner, she must be struggling but hopefully she is surrounded by people who love her and can help her. Fingers crossed for you all, and that things get back to normality for you as soon as possible.
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She shed plenty of tears and a more than a few over all her friends, who have offered, help, beds for night/s, baby sitting (7 yr old son), stables, fields, you name it..& to be fair my own non horsey friends, love um, have all phoned offering help over the weekend, unfortunately we can do so little until the water recedes, or they'd all have there wellies on tomorrow! My teenage sons are booked for haylage rolling tomorrow as will have to unload on the road, with a long push to the dry corner we are using to store our few bits..
 
I used to live on the edge of the flood plain with our paddock and stables flooding on a regular basis. The water comes up so quickly that it often takes you by surprise and as its so specific to some areas you can be 3 feet in water but next door have none at all and the rest of the village not know there is any at all.
My top tip is using empty wheelie bins to transport things in the water and buy wader's from the angling shop, once you have bought them like a magic talisman you probably never need them again One thing is the slime and rubbish that is left behind that makes everything smell like bad fish so you long for it to rain to wash it away.
Good luck with the clear up and condolences for the cat.
 
So sorry this has happened to you, and your poor YO. Must be just awful, well done for getting the horses to safety, and how very sad about the yard cat. I can't imagine how difficult everything must be right now. But on the positive side, isn't it just amazing how people pull together and help in extraordinary circumstances.
 
How awful for your yard owner. Sorry to hear about her cat.
Thank goodness your horses are ok but I can't begin to imagine how stressful that must have been.
 
So sorry for all the people affected. The pictures on the news look surreal. How terrifying it must have been to get caught up in the surge .
 
mary christmas said:
Hi OP i was just thinking about you and your horses and wondering how you are all getting on now ? I hope things have gotten a bit better.
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Hi, well the little black dress diet isn't needed. Hard Hard work, the council sent us a pump for approx. 24hrs, peoples homes obviously a priority but it lowered the water level enough for us to get to the small wooden stables, we were about half a welly high at this point, we dug out our deep litter shavings, pushed so many barrows thru Mud to the muck heap and then it was a just a matter of waiting for them to drain completely for another muck & sweep out. We've collected buckets from the 4 corners of the yard & disinfected them, same with haynets! Sunday saw 2 stables virtually dry, disinfectant and bedded down for the 2 TB's, the ponies will continue to live out with ad lib hay & a 3rd small stable has turned into, feed, store room. YO picked up 50 small bales of hay Sunday which is living in the horse box. We've cleared 3 fields of Apples, Leaves & debris (yard has a old commercial orchard attached). So all the emergency stuff is done, the fields we are using are clear, we have hay & feed & water again. 1 grooming kit between us it was found floating the right way up in the little tack room, Disinfected, dried, now being shared. The barn, big stables and big tack room still can't be reached without waders, So its take each day as it comes, Screwfix tonight after work to get a headtorch or 2 as we have no electricity in stables and unfortunately I've had to come back to work. Were only a small yard so not many hands, my husband has taken time off and yesterday drafted in the big Son, who was fine pushing barrows of leaves and apples to skip, kept gagging when I asked him to push very heavy barrow while I poo picked, even in a crisis every day jobs have to be done and horses still poop!
YO's have to move out of the house, they were hoping to camp upstairs but are looking into getting a mobile home instead on site as she is not leaving the horses, love her! I have a feeling the house will be a slow process but we will try to steam on with the stables and hopefully some sort on normality before weather hits its all dependent on how quick the water takes to recede!
 
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