The storm started Wednesday, November 5th. It started raining in the afternoon while I was at work and by the time I got home it was starting to snow. We got over an inch of rain before it started to freeze and then our troubles began....
Here are the bulls calves having grain after the storm. They sure love it. Anyway we lost power Thursday morning about 4:30 and the wind blew aweful. School was cancelled and Grace got to spend her 18th birthday stuck at home. The first day of no electricity wasn't too bad, but...
This is a picture of a fairly deep crick, its blowed full of snow so it looks level with the banks. On with the story, we were lucky that we didn't lose any cattle and we stayed warm with the propane stove as the woodstove doesn't work without power. I was getting rather sick of cooking in the dark even though we did have oil lanterns. The power finally came on lastnight, Sunday, about 9:30. I almost felt like jumping up and turning on all the lights, but I contained myself.
Here is a bale stack that the snow almost covered and the round bales are stacked three high. Its an awesome snow drift.
Everything is still covered with ice and slowly everyone is getting power back,thank the Lord for linemen.
Our crossing that was filled full of water in the spring blowed shut with snow, we really should do something about that. Here Doug is digging it out with the tractor. There are some drifts that are so hard that we just have to chip away at them. But we are safe and sound and we hope that all the others at endured this storm are doing the same.
The storm started Wednesday, November 5th. It started raining in the afternoon while I was at work and by the time I got home it was starting to snow. We got over an inch of rain before it started to freeze and then our troubles began....
Here are the bulls calves having grain after the storm. They sure love it. Anyway we lost power Thursday morning about 4:30 and the wind blew aweful. School was cancelled and Grace got to spend her 18th birthday stuck at home. The first day of no electricity wasn't too bad, but...
This is a picture of a fairly deep crick, its blowed full of snow so it looks level with the banks. On with the story, we were lucky that we didn't lose any cattle and we stayed warm with the propane stove as the woodstove doesn't work without power. I was getting rather sick of cooking in the dark even though we did have oil lanterns. The power finally came on lastnight, Sunday, about 9:30. I almost felt like jumping up and turning on all the lights, but I contained myself.
Here is a bale stack that the snow almost covered and the round bales are stacked three high. Its an awesome snow drift.
Everything is still covered with ice and slowly everyone is getting power back,thank the Lord for linemen.
Our crossing that was filled full of water in the spring blowed shut with snow, we really should do something about that. Here Doug is digging it out with the tractor. There are some drifts that are so hard that we just have to chip away at them. But we are safe and sound and we hope that all the others at endured this storm are doing the same.
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