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[makoiyi]

Here in Alberta, Canada, we've had some pretty devastating storms of late. Sunday night, in our area, we had a terrific hail storm. Fortunately my horse and his herd survived with only a few scratches, but others did not. People lost horses who panicked in continual sheet lightning and horrific hail. Not horse related but to show how bad it was

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[tntcharge]

Those storms are coming my way! (I'm in MI). They've calmed down a bit but still bring quite the lightening and thunder!

Poor guy :( I hope everything gets straightened out!

[beybladesabre]

A lady I know had both her horses go through the fence in last Sunday's storm and they were horribly torn up:( I'm REALLY glad that we didn't get the hail here, and I'm so glad that you guys weathered the storm alright.

I would be absolutely sick with worry if one of my horses was missing for that long... I'm really curious as to why the owner wasn't searching for him too:( Poor guy. I hope he makes a full recovery.

[makoiyi]

It was a case, I think, of the son's girl friends horse - you know? I am guessing she presumed the prospective parent's in laws were looking after it. If you looked out a window you wouldn't know that horse was cut up as badly as it was. MIL did come down but it was obvious she was terrified of horses. We were cleaning that bad wound. Obviously it hurt the poor guy so he was dancing around a bit and she just about leapt out of her socks. So, not a good place to leave one's horse. Though, in truth, how often do we have hail storms that bad?

So sorry about your friend's horses. I know we were lucky, but I have a good guy where I board. We'd visited so early he didn't know we'd been down but he phoned early to say, yes, Merlin was okay, which was very thoughtful of him. It was terrifying being inside the house. Lord only knows what the animals went through.

[beybladesabre]

Ah I see. That sucks because 99% of the time horses will be perfectly fine out by themselves, but you can't foresee stuff like that:P Thank god it doesn't happen very often around here!!

[hooves]

That horse is mighty lucky that you found him. I have to agree with you, though. If my pet was out there in a storm like that, the moment it ended, I'd be there trying to find him to make sure he was okay. Most people would go to check the damage on their cars, their homes...so why not a living, breathing creature...you know, something that can't be replaced?

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[wldhrsjen3]

Ack. Glad Merlin was okay, and I think it's fantastic that he was such a trooper while you guys were out searching for hurt or missing animals.

Since my horses live out on pasture 24/7, bad storms are my worst nightmare. I've been known to run outside in the midst of terrible lightning and thunder just to make sure they were all together in the shelter. It drives Husband crazy, but I worry about my horses. After a storm the _first_ thing I do is run down to the pasture to check on them - even in the middle of the night. I realize I'm lucky because they're so close I _can_ run out to them, but gah. I can't imagine waiting that long...

[makoiyi]

That's the thing and prob why it upset me. Even if you presume/think your horse is in an okay place, I'd still go and double check. This storm was all over the news, so folk knew how bad it was in our particular area. The fly eggs in that wound don't even bear thinking about.

Heh, I can imagine you doing that, and I would do the same if Merlin was closer. My flippin cat was out in it and I was so worried but typical him, he was fine. Part of the problem was that the lightning and heavy hail binded the animals so they ran all over the place.

[wastedrock]

A freak storm hit my town too, I'm 10 minutes away from my horses but even in torrential rain, blinding lightening and crazy winds my friend and I drove out there and brought them ALL in safely to the barn. at 2am.

I'm like you, I couldn't imagine not worrying about them!

[makoiyi]

Dave had been out on foot and rang every local farmer but they were either too busy with their own probs or away. That's why we took the horses. We found the owner through the brand and no, she didn't even know he had gone.