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[RC] What to do with horses during storms - rides2farDown here on the Gulf Coast where heavy storms and hurricanes are a way of > life, most everyone puts the horses out to pasture in a bad storm. OK, but a "Gulf Coast Storm" covers a huge area. What Jody's got to worry about is a Tornado....which is so *specific*. :-) The odds of a lightning stike hitting a horse are so much greater than a tornado hitting the barn that I'd have to vote for the barn. Anyway, from what I recall...don't buildings just sort of explode *outwards* in a tornado? I think I've heard they sort of bulge then explode out. I've known several horses killed by lightning. Anybody know a horse that got hit by a tornado while in a stall? I'd worry more about a horse that had room to get up speed and hurt himself. I had a friend whose parents farm got hit by a tornado. She told me that down the road there was an old barn and there was an ancient horse who always stood in the hall of it and never seemed to move. When she went to her parent's house after the tornado the horse was still standing there, but the barn was totally gone. She said she wondered if he'd been standing there when it happened and whether he'd noticed "something missing lately". >g< Angie =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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