Musta been one Helluva Snow
- Thread starter HAY MAKER
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Faster horses
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HAY MAKER said:
It may have been a helluva show, but it didn't have a happy ending.
Clarencen
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We have to understand the real situation there. I live, maybe 150 miles south and east of the area affected. I am no longer in ranching, but if there were losses here they were small.
Neither the ranchers or the livestock were prepared for such a storm. Usually here in South Dakota cattle are left in summer pasture until Nov, 1 sometimes a little later. This storm was a month or six weeks earlier then expected. That much rain and snow is not expected here in October.
As has been said before a combination of things led to this disaster.
Like the fellow said, those of us who didn't experience this hate to look these who did in the eye. They hate to face us also as some of the public accuses them of neglect. It is something like the 1980's farm crisis. We who survived could hardly look those others in the face.
Neither the ranchers or the livestock were prepared for such a storm. Usually here in South Dakota cattle are left in summer pasture until Nov, 1 sometimes a little later. This storm was a month or six weeks earlier then expected. That much rain and snow is not expected here in October.
As has been said before a combination of things led to this disaster.
Like the fellow said, those of us who didn't experience this hate to look these who did in the eye. They hate to face us also as some of the public accuses them of neglect. It is something like the 1980's farm crisis. We who survived could hardly look those others in the face.