Big Muddy rancher
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We got the smoke, but the signals are mixed :cowboy: :lol2: :lol2:
jodywy said:88 all over again only farther north
That was a real struggle when my wife and I were trying to drum up local support for the fires in Kansas and western OK earlier this year. People here had no clue what kind of devastation we were telling them about. We took video when we went to Ashland and it blew people away to see that kind of destruction. I grew up in CA, which is a tinder box six months out of the year and I wasn't prepared for some of what I saw.jedstivers said:That's hard for someone like me to even imagine.
No way a fire can get to any size here.
We burn fields off even.
cow pollinater said:That was a real struggle when my wife and I were trying to drum up local support for the fires in Kansas and western OK earlier this year. People here had no clue what kind of devastation we were telling them about. We took video when we went to Ashland and it blew people away to see that kind of destruction. I grew up in CA, which is a tinder box six months out of the year and I wasn't prepared for some of what I saw.jedstivers said:That's hard for someone like me to even imagine.
No way a fire can get to any size here.
We burn fields off even.
I doubt anyone will have any hard numbers for a long time to come. We went to Ashland about a month after the fire and they were still finding and destroying cattle.gcreekrch said:cow pollinater said:That was a real struggle when my wife and I were trying to drum up local support for the fires in Kansas and western OK earlier this year. People here had no clue what kind of devastation we were telling them about. We took video when we went to Ashland and it blew people away to see that kind of destruction. I grew up in CA, which is a tinder box six months out of the year and I wasn't prepared for some of what I saw.jedstivers said:That's hard for someone like me to even imagine.
No way a fire can get to any size here.
We burn fields off even.
Won't know until fall but thinking livestock losses there were more than this will end up being. Still, 30,000+ cattle affected on 2,000,000 acres + who knows what the losses will be. Know of several hundred dead or euthanized already. Some folks that were struggling financially will likely go broke over this issue. Feel so bad for so many friends.
Yes. I've always considered myself a cattleman first but that trip made me realize how much the people mean to me. I hate that business suffers, I can't stand the thought of the stock that has suffered, but both of those have already dulled with time for me. What I won't ever, ever, forget is the image of a little boys bicycle still on it's kickstand on a chunk of concrete that used to be someones front porch with every ounce of rubber and paint completely obliterated along with the house it stood in front of. That image won't ever leave and when I think of it I remember the way his grandmother hugged me when we started unloading the trailer.gcreekrch said:Feel so bad for so many friends.