Is everyone surviving Flooding Friday OK??

Mmm, it is definitely soggy, and very very windy. Lots of accidents gumming up the roads this week. I've been merrily pulling over to let past the maniacs that want to drive at 60mph through giant unknown puddles in the dark.

I started the day today getting soaked walking the dogs (well just soaked legs really), then went to fetch the horses in whereupon their collective brains fell out and they all started dancing around in the vicinity of the gate being generally uncatchable. I could hear the sheep calling so told the horses that they were a bunch of ungrateful sods and stomped off to feed the sheep who were suitably grateful. Returned to the field to find all three horses pressed up against the gate, heads drooped, faces like eyeore, and suddenly very keen to be cooperative. By the end of this I was a fully drowned rat spec human. I was glad to get on my way to work just for a chance to dry out!


Hope everyone else is ok and nobody suffers too much damage as this passes over.

@Amymay Again - I adore the look of your hose from the pictures you post 😍
 
tda said:
We were predicted just outside the yellow zone but it has rained solidly since yesterday evening and its very windy/gusty now.
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I gave our unrugged horses hay just after 9.00am and they were wet but fine, wind coming from the east, which is an awkward direction for us as there is very little available shelter.
Just after 11.00, I checked them again and they were shivering, so we hastily got out the rugs that we put away at the beginning the heatwave. (Can you see what size this label says?, Who has the rug with the green binding?). And left them with more hay. Sis and I were both out for lunch and when we next checked them, the Appy was shivering again. We think that the wind had blown the rain up under her rug and she had decided that she didn't want to stand in the shelter which is open to the east.
They have found the sudden drop in temperature difficult and got used to eating the grass which has been growing like mad recently, so seemed to not want to fill up on boring old hay, which had *got wet* during the day. Anyway when last seen they were tucking into a huge heap of dry hay right at the back of the shelter and seemed much happier.
Sis and I were glad to get back into the house and dry off after fighting with the haylage bale and its cover to cater for the equine requirements.
 
Very wet where I am :( Fields are holding up but horses will need limited turn out for a bit to help them while it’s so wet.

Concerning with lack of hay around this year, we might end up feeding more if it continues to be so wet!
 
It rained hard for about 24 hours here in North Wilts. It's stopped for now and I'm hoping to get out for a ride later but will have to stick to surfaced tracks and lanes from now on. Shame, because the ground has been fab until now, which is unusual for round here (usually either rock hard or knee deep mud).
Lots of flooding locally, and lots of FB posts showing cars up to their necks in floodwater under bridges, or people driving too fast into deep puddles and grinding to a halt.
 
Pearlsasinger said:
I gave our unrugged horses hay just after 9.00am and they were wet but fine, wind coming from the east, which is an awkward direction for us as there is very little available shelter.
Just after 11.00, I checked them again and they were shivering, so we hastily got out the rugs that we put away at the beginning the heatwave. (Can you see what size this label says?, Who has the rug with the green binding?). And left them with more hay. Sis and I were both out for lunch and when we next checked them, the Appy was shivering again. We think that the wind had blown the rain up under her rug and she had decided that she didn't want to stand in the shelter which is open to the east.
They have found the sudden drop in temperature difficult and got used to eating the grass which has been growing like mad recently, so seemed to not want to fill up on boring old hay, which had *got wet* during the day. Anyway when last seen they were tucking into a huge heap of dry hay right at the back of the shelter and seemed much happier.
Sis and I were glad to get back into the house and dry off after fighting with the haylage bale and its cover to cater for the equine requirements.
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It was still bizarrely warm here (Somerset) yesterday. Pretty wet though.
 
Extremely surprised to find my fields in ok condition this morning. No where near as wet as I thought they would be. Boys out until early afternoon. Hope everyone else is OK.
 
Down South.

I sorted the dogs and ponies early and bedded down for the day.

Field looks the same this morning as it did, though. No sign that we have had much rain.
 
little_critter said:
It was still bizarrely warm here (Somerset) yesterday. Pretty wet though.
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I think it was the strength of the wind that the problem here. That and rather foolish horses, preferring the taste of young short grass to that of useful, heating haylage. Fortunately although the direction is the same, the wind has dropped considerably now and the rain is more drizzle but they are back to eating the grass. I've given them some more hay and checked under their rugs, all well.
 
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In seriousness, everything is flooded and my field is running rivers. It’s clay, so it’s now a bog.

The horses have been on the hardstanding, but they have spent most of the day in their stables voluntarily. They’re out properly now though.

The tarp was blown off the bale as well, which was an absolute nightmare.

It started raining at 2pm on Thursday and hasn’t stopped since, although it’s now starting to tail off. The fields are a quagmire but the girls have to go out today because they haven’t gone out for the past 27 hours. Luckily, neither of them are particularly prone to bouts of maddened racing around when the ground is this wet.

Erin hates getting her tootsies wet so she’s staying in the driest areas, I wish the same could be said for Saus! 🤣

ETA: wrote half of my post yesterday and half today 🤣
 
Ugh, just been out to put a bale in for the youngsters, standing water and mud, they have been in the shelters tho which is good.
They have pulled half the electric fence down but OH seemed to think the wind had blown it down so was happy to help reinstate.
I'm wet now and so are ponies but they are ok
 
Snap I have a pond today complete with a couple of friendly ducks! Have come away nearly in tears at the state of the place, I mean I was warned it “got wet” when we took the lease in September but wasn’t quite expecting to find a monsoon. Ponies are thankfully staying on the high bits and I even got standie out for a quick hack but am now in the bath trying to get 4 acres of mud from under my fingertips!
 
Rained heavily here on the south Derbyshire/Leicestershire border from Thursday evening until this morning. Then it has continued to drizzle all day today. Ponies stayed in yesterday but are back out today having moved onto the old carpark. Basically a hardcore field with bits of grass growing through. The best thing ever for this weather, there is water running down their actual grazing fields.
 
Just had an hour outside as it stopped raining, fed the oldies and then caved and put a rug on the 23yr old as she was wet and shivering and its a keen cold wind and I know, i know ,it's against everything/ native ponies and all that 😬🙄
It's started raining again 😐
 
Flowerofthefen said:
Extremely surprised to find my fields in ok condition this morning. No where near as wet as I thought they would be. Boys out until early afternoon. Hope everyone else is OK.
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I’ve got to say mine are better than I thought they were going to be considering the amount of rain we had. This next week looks cold and mostly dry so 🤞🏼 they can dry out again a bit.
 
I’m in Staffordshire? I brought mine in yesterday so they had day and night in on the yard with shelter. They were happy to be back out today and the field just had a little surface water on! They are still on Summer grazing. I’ve got too much grass on Winter 3 acres so will need to strip graze! Hacked today and Ford was a bit deep to go through but otherwise all ok?
 
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