How’s Storm Bert been for you?

P

poiuytrewq

Well-Known Member
Joined
3 April 2008
Messages
21,449
Location
Cotswolds
Visit site
I got my guys in on Saturday morning and they have stayed in! I never ever miss turnout, they generally go out in all weathers.
I knew Ziggy would be utterly miserable. He can’t bear wind and rain on his face. Little old mare hates outside in general unless it’s sunny! I was concerned about her being out so thought sod it, why force them out when they don’t want to be!
Everyone’s had yard leg stretches but been happy enough. My stables are wet, fields under water.
Alfie, he’s apparently hard core! He hasn’t got a stable. He has a turnout pen with a shelter because he has a dust allergy and dodgy legs!
I left the gate from that to the field opens and the weirdo has grazed happily outside alone all weekend 😂 comes in when he hears me on the yard. Has a feed and a haynet then tootles back off into the storm!
Hope to get the others back out tomorrow.

The local pub has lost its beautiful outside awning, the usual trees down, flooded roads. Probably the wettest I’ve seen the roads locally. Much of the village was without power but luckily we were fine! 🤞🤞
I don’t want to look at my fields 😬
Hope you all fared reasonably well!
 
We are ok from a flooding point of view but, being on the top of a hill, it was just too windy and exposed to turn out.

The horses have been in since midday yesterday. They have been helping with yard chores because our yard is built in a square so it’s quite sheltered. They will walk on the lead with me while I push the wheel barrow, bring hay and straw over, wash buckets, prep supper etc.

Tomorrow they will be so happy to be in their fields again.
 
Yesterday the horses stayed in all day due to the thigh winds and heavy rain. It’s been ridiculously warm today - 15 degrees and still windy but they have managed to be out 9 til 3 so are happy. We’ve had light rain on and off for most of the day but the warm wind is a blessing in disguise because it’s drying the ground up lots! I actually think compared to most of the UK when I see what some people have had that we have got off lightly (I’m in Lincs). The wind has dropped this evening and it’s still mild here.
 
LadyGascoyne said:
We are ok from a flooding point of view but, being on the top of a hill, it was just too windy and exposed to turn out.

The horses have been in since midday yesterday. They have been helping with yard chores because our yard is built in a square so it’s quite sheltered. They will walk on the lead with me while I push the wheel barrow, bring hay and straw over, wash buckets, prep supper etc.

Tomorrow they will be so happy to be in their fields again.
Click to expand...
Same. I really hope to get them out tomorrow. The ponies field it literally under water but they have no shoes so don’t really do much damage. They can go loose on the yard all day to hopefully let theirs drain off a bit and go out overnight as per usual.
Zig and Alf can go out first thing regardless as although seriously wet they need to be out.
 
spotty_pony2 said:
Yesterday the horses stayed in all day due to the thigh winds and heavy rain. It’s been ridiculously warm today - 15 degrees and still windy but they have managed to be out 9 til 3 so are happy. We’ve had light rain on and off for most of the day but the warm wind is a blessing in disguise because it’s drying the ground up lots! I actually think compared to most of the UK when I see what some people have had that we have got off lightly (I’m in Lincs). The wind has dropped this evening and it’s still mild here.
Click to expand...
Today has been far worse for us than yesterday. I was working on a livery yard this morning and too warm in my waterproofs!
 
A few trees down, usual puddles/lakes on roads.
Lost at least 2 sections of post and rail, stuff I repaired 2 winters ago (or rather dh did most of it under direction).
Fields rather soggy on the low lying bits.

Most annoying is the main road through town now closed till an inspection can be done of a 42 storey building in the town as some cladding might have come loose. Beggars belief to locals as this road was closed for over 5 months to refix the new cladding as it was found to have been put on incorrectly when built..... 🙄 (when the road was closed for over a year for the new building works previously )
 
poiuytrewq said:
Same. I really hope to get them out tomorrow. The ponies field it literally under water but they have no shoes so don’t really do much damage. They can go loose on the yard all day to hopefully let theirs drain off a bit and go out overnight as per usual.
Zig and Alf can go out first thing regardless as although seriously wet they need to be out.
Click to expand...

I tried taking Miri for a walk beyond the shelter of the yard.

She would only put her feet on the only bit that wasn’t wet, she lagged behind me on the way out and nearly towed me back 🤣


IMG_7064.jpeg
 
The horses were fine left the gate open from the pole barn to the field (as usual)
I put extra haylege out and after it was gone they ambled out to eat the grass ( there is lots) .They are shut onto the corral around the pole barn overnight and plenty of haylege put out .In the morning they were hunkered down in the pole barn and dry so had stayed there eating haylege overnight.
The fields are a bit damp. but free draining so no mud and no flooding .
WE used the indoor sand school to exercise the dogs several times during the day and didn't take them out on the fields at all ,( which we usually do) as the rain was heavy and persistent
They can run around together in the indoor sand school and there is a dog agility course around the edge with small jumps rings to jump through and tunnel's so lots to play in as well as lots of balls to play with. They race around playing chase together so plenty of exercise.
The indoor sand school is a godsend on weekends like this.
 
Well we lost our central hearing due to the boiler then woke to the electric being out. That came on at 10am.
Then realised that our newly widened driveway had washed away down the road leaving a 2ft gulley and piles of gravel in the road.
Good news that my newly installed stables seem to be fine and have definitely tested the roof.
 
No horses here anymore, just dogs and they are all fine, no damage thankfully.

Biggest issue are the floods… all three lanes I could take from home had floods, probably about 10” deep minimum and up to 100’ long. I would have preferred to turn right, the left turn is a lane which has just been flailed for the first time in years, the lane is carnage and it’s all blackthorn…

Been home all weekend really, couldn’t get to our fun club agility show today and missed my mates. Bored, bored, bored!
 
Power at home was off for 5 hours or more, not sure when it went out.

Lost a section of roofing from the old stables, luckily only having the three now that building isn’t used but I thought it was good for donkey’s years yet.

Several big trees down, local pub lost their roof, village hall roof slates all over the road, water everywhere on the roads.
 
No horses here anymore, just dogs and they are all fine, no damage thankfully.

Biggest issue are the floods… all three lanes I could take from home had floods, probably about 10” deep minimum and up to 100’ long. I would have preferred to turn right, the left turn is a lane which has just been flailed for the first time in years, the lane is carnage and it’s all blackthorn…

Been home all weekend really, couldn’t get to our fun club agility show today and missed my mates. Bored, bored, bored!
 
Awful flooding where we are, couldn’t physically get to the yard this morning but managed to this afternoon, very grateful to YO for being able to sort horses! Arena and yard flooded but most stables dry thankfully!

Horses have been in all week, we had snow and ice then that finally melted yesterday and 2 days of torrential rain and flooded fields. Very very grateful we have a horsewalker and they can go on that twice a day for a good walk and stretch. Once a day on the arena loose so they can roll too! Not sure when they will be out as we are on clay and they are going to be a quagmire!
 
Tigger had to stay in and wasn't happy about it, be believes tbs should be free range. Apparently lots of indignant neighs this morning with complaints to the management and again when I got there.

He already had cankles so had a walk before I mucked out and another before I left. He tried to drag me to the fields and even go down the back track to the summer fields but apart from that walked out happily in rain and wind ignoring flappy plastic.

Couldn't be trusted to be tied up and the horse walker was a merry go round so had to muck out around him.

Left him back legs bandaged and 2 huge net of hay and haylage
 
YO here. A thoroughly bleddi awful weekend. Very stressful, and I just didn't sleep for worrying about the effect of the wind on my poor old 400-yo Grade II house & all the outbuildings in the yard. We're East of Dartmoor, on a high'ish ridge of ground, and get the winds coming across from the South West here.

All was good (or as good as it gets) till the early hours of Sunday morning. Heard the wind howling outside, all you can do is lie there and worry about it as it's as dark as pitch outside and there's nowt you can do about anything. Went out at first light; then saw on local social media that one of our field shelters had been blown not just over the hedge but over the road as well. So we spent the morning sorting that out; fortunately everyone rallied round and livery's partner is a carpenter (who built the structure anyway), so it could have been worse, much worse.

What a vile weekend. Don't want another one like that in my lifetime thank you.
 
It was really bad here yesterday - several of our outbuildings flooded and I hardly slept for worry of what I would wake up to this morning. Thankfully the waters have gone down and nothing ruined, although I did spend the morning having to put all of the electric back up. The horses have been happy to just stay on the yard, they seemed exhausted today though. I don't think any of us slept last night.

A crap weekend all in all - definitely going to bed early! I really feel for people who have been hit badly by it.
 
Wet. One yearling who ran around like a nutter and looked a bit off this evening - going to have a proper look in the light tomorrow. Turning out on large acreage to grow up is all good until it just gives them too much space to play when the ground is far too wet. Otherwise we have fields on hills running with water and several parts of fence that had come down by this morning and had to be fixed.
 
MiJodsR2BlinkinTite said:
YO here. A thoroughly bleddi awful weekend. Very stressful, and I just didn't sleep for worrying about the effect of the wind on my poor old 400-yo Grade II house & all the outbuildings in the yard. We're East of Dartmoor, on a high'ish ridge of ground, and get the winds coming across from the South West here.

All was good (or as good as it gets) till the early hours of Sunday morning. Heard the wind howling outside, all you can do is lie there and worry about it as it's as dark as pitch outside and there's nowt you can do about anything. Went out at first light; then saw on local social media that one of our field shelters had been blown not just over the hedge but over the road as well. So we spent the morning sorting that out; fortunately everyone rallied round and livery's partner is a carpenter (who built the structure anyway), so it could have been worse, much worse.

What a vile weekend. Don't want another one like that in my lifetime thank you.
Click to expand...

I saw that on FB this morning (I remember thinking how useful it would be to have a partner who's a carpenter 😀) The same happened to a friend of mine a few years ago, which is why mine is well anchored down with metal posts in the ground on all corners.

The wind has been vile here on the Coast, but not too bad and no damage).
 
Some t**t setting off fireworks last night didn't do my blood pressure any good. When I know fireworks are happening they go in the top field but yesterday I put them in the one by the road - good hedge and rested grass. I now have a totally churned up gateway and skid marks. They all seem OK thankfully.

Still raining and I don't like the way the ash trees behind the stables wave their branches around in high winds so the horses are out. Feeling guilty but there's plenty to eat.

Roads tomorrow will be interesting.
 
It’s been dreadful with us - managed to get the boys out yesterday and brought them in like drowned rats for the night, but it’s been relentless all of last night and all today. Arena is underwater, the roads are just gushing rivers and there’s currently a river in my field 😭 boys have been in all day and probably will be tomorrow as well. I bloody hate rain! Can’t complain too much as some of the local villages round here are properly underwater, just seeing the photos of people’s homes underwater is awful.
 
We had a lot of water run off from the snow melt combined with rain. Luckily we’re up high but there’s been some pretty bad flooding in the local villages down in the valley.

The wind is nothing out the ordinary for winter up here, it’s always windy!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top