They said it was going to snow and that the wind was going to blow. Kerry Don hauled some hay, and I made sure that we had plenty of food and water. We really didn't think it would really be a blizzard.
However, when we woke up Monday morning... we knew it REALLY was a blizzard.
Snow was packed on all the windows, I could barely see out of my front door.
Most of Monday was white out conditions!
Late Monday afternoon, it cleared alittle and the guys were called out to the interstate to help rescue stranded people.
Kerry Don, Pake, Deon and Bray hauled some truckers all the way back to town.
They also helped pull out these big rigs. Luckily everyone was safe!
Finally, Tuesday we headed out on the tractor to check our own stuff.
The drifts were huge in some places!
Kerry Don had to dig out the hot wire fence on a few places.
It was pretty deep!
Of course all the tanks were frozen over, and the cows hadn't been able to drink.
Kerry Don had to put hay forks on the tractor.
We hauled hay!
'Ole Bessie here says, "Thanks for the fresh hay!"
I felt like I was standing in a tractor rut 3 feet deep and that the drift behind me was 5 foot tall....
I guess it wasn't quite that bad, but that's the deepest snow I've seen in a long time!
When the snow started melting, well then there was mud.
Yes Pake got stuck and here we had just pulled him out.
Tate, Hunter, and Meghan had fun playing in the snow and mud,
but I never got a picture of Pake.
I guess he was too busy getting stuck, as you see here he also got the Scout stuck.
Oh I almost forgot to mention all the cattle that were out. Stray cattle were out everywhere, thankfully none of them were ours. But many neighbors drove their cattle to the Roll-A-Cone pens, until they could get them home. Why did they get out? Well, evidently cattle start walking south when there's a blizzard. The drifts are so high sometimes they walk right over the fences, and they just keep walking south.
Most of the cattle penned at Roll-a-Cone were from as far north as Happy.
There were so many cowboys and trailers at Roll-A-Cone Wednesday afternoon, it looked like we had a livestock auction. They sorted the cattle by their brands and ear tags. I believe there were at least 7 different owners.
By now lots of the snow had melted and there was sloppy mud shin deep. Hopefully, everyone got all of their cattle back. It was crazy, but we met some new neighbors.
Thursday, there were still huge snow drifts in the backyard.
Tater even made a tunnel.
The Blizzard of 2013 will definitely go down in the history books,
but we are so very thankful for all the moisture.
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