It started raining at 6 am yesterday and it's now 6 am (24 hrs. later) and we've had 13 inches of rain also violent storms and it's storming again! My wife and 6 yr. old are stranded 35 miles from home overnight because of flooding. They went to a baby shower and had to spend the night. I'm home with the 2 and 4 yr. old who thankfully have slept soundly. As soon as they wake up I'm pumping some food in them and going out to check on my heifers, some of my electric fence is under water but hopefully most or all still intact. Shouldn't be a terribly hard fix if damaged. A good friend just separated 44 pure Angus calves Friday to wean them and the storms aren't helping them settle in obviously. On top of that he might have lost some cows to flooding but isn't sure yet because he can't reach a couple of his farms because of raging water. It's going to a busy day and oh yeah, I slept about three hours last night. Cattle farming---YOU GOTTA LOVE IT!!!! :banana:
This is crazy!
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bigbull338
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well 1 thing is for sure.you wont be doing any shredding anytime soon.so just enjoy being with the kids.
Caustic Burno
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tncattle":3gra62yf said:
On Good Friday 1999 we got 13 inches in three hours, it wiped out roads, bridges, dams and fences evrywhere. People who had never had water in there home's before got flooded. The creek that runs through my place looked like the Trinty River on a flood it was about 150 yards wide normal it is about 6 feet wide. It took months to put everything back together water is some powerful stuff. This was still nothing compared to what the people in Alvin Texas went through.
On July 25, 1979 Tropical Storm Claudette stalled over Alvin and inundated the region with 45 inches in 42 hours. That total included 43 inches in 24 hours, the maximum 24-hour rainfall in US history.
I understand the pain of flooding. Yesterday afternoon we had a little break in the rain and I go to check on cattle. One of my hay fields was under water and over the fence post. Limbs and trees floating across the fields was a sickening feeling, but we can replace fence and cut up trees where we can't replace the lives that have been lost here in middle Tennessee. It's really bad but we're still blessed. Take care everyone.
Red Bull Breeder
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March 18 2008 the creek here at home washed aut half the fence on the place. Washed three calves away on a place i had leased. Got the outside fences here at home rebuilt and and it washed them out agin. Found one of the calves in june about 4 miles down the creek, she will calve in the next week or so.
Things are rough here in MId TN. My places are all ok on high ground but i will probably spend the next week helping friends get all there fences back up. One freind got his cattle moved but every fence he has in the bottoms is gone im afraid after the water recedes it will be bad all over but none of that is as bad as the lives lost.
I heard about your flooding this morning we went through the same thing the end of March getting 10-13 inches had severe flooding in south eastern Ct. and Rhode Island. That wasn't fun I feel your pain. Luckily we didn't get as hard hit as RI. But it still was bad. Thank God I live at top of a hill.
tncattle
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My 7 new heifers survived and are well but one of my friend's might not have faired as well. He found about 20 head this morning at one farm but some were not accounted for. Then another 100 acre place he leases was really hit hard by the flood waters and we still can't even get in to it. He probably had another 30 to 40 head down at that farm, these are all registered Angus. I'll try and get some pics tomorrow to post for y'all to see.
Jogeephus
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Hope it eases up on ya'll. Saw it on the news and it looked terrible.
Well I left the house Sat morning in the rain/storm to check for calves, drove 35 miles to farm...That was 3 days ago got home about 9 last nite.....Most of the roads even I 40 went under water.....I could write for hours about the high water, miles of washed out train track, bridges, and road ways...It was amazing...
