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This snow needs to stop ): (WARNING: there's blood)

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During the storm we got Thursday night, the indoor at my barn collapsed from the snow, the neighboring barn's also went down.
Luckily, there were no horses in theirs. We had two pens in our indoor that my friend was keeping her horses in. They are both alive, once you see the pictures you'll be amazed.
The one mare made it out with no scratches at all, the other wasn't so lucky. She would have been fine, but as the fire department was cutting her out of the mess, she flailed around and cut up her legs.
Three of the cuts were suspect of having cut through the joint, but the vet is 99% sure that they didn't.
So glad that they're alright












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#3 ·
Oh my.....we had 8 1/2 inches here and I had a board that supports the roof of Miss Lacy's stall pull loose but nothing came down.

Poor horses must have been scared to death....

Hope everything works out well for them both...
 
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We got there after they had already been wrapped, so weren't really sure where she was bleeding from.
She had a deep cut on her stifle, the front of her hock and around her fetlock.
In that picture I think she had at least three polos and vet wrap with pillow wraps.
We unwrapped everything and redid it with vetwrap and that stopped it. It was such a mess that we didn't see the one on her fetlock, so that's where a lot of the blood came from.
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#5 ·
Gunslinger, when we were in the barn with them and snow fell off the roof they got so scared. I can't imagine how the felt that night.
Thanks for the well wishes!
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We have about 3 feet, depending on where the snow has drifted to.

Hope you fair well with all the rain out there, we're supposed to get ice
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It the snow comes off only one side there is a huge shift in pressure from the loaded side which causes a building to collapse. My hay shed roof collects snow worse than the others. It is a low slope up against the barn. I'll pull a 3' strip along a sloping edge, then go to the other and do the same. Then the middle then work both ways. It is only 16' wide but a cave in can happen on an even smaller roof. Any time you're in an arena and hear the snow slide, get out immediately.
 
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Wow! That is so awful! I hope the injured horse makes a full and speedy recovery and that you have some sort of insurance coverage to replaced the collapsed arena! D: You're only about a 2 hour drive from where I live. We have 1 - 3 feet of snow here as well depending on where you measure. Luckily no one I know has had any collapsing structures. Of course, most of us do not have indoor arenas. I just hope we don't have significant flooding later this week with the suddenly warm weather and all the melting snow. I am SO ready for this weather to be over!
 
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And we are getting more snow tomorrow. Just had about 4" yesterday. The path I made to the horses will be buried again. Supposed to be milder here tomorrow so tomorrow's project will be to remove the snow from the hay shed roof. This will be the second time. Usually it's done in mid Jan just once. This year it had to be done in early Dec. and never has it needed doing twice. I just have to shovel my way over there.
 
#17 ·
That's insane. Those pictures are so scary!!

When I was younger, the indoor arena/barn where I took lessons collapsed. The trainer at the time just let all of the horses out of their stalls--it was the fastest and easiest way to let them out.
She ended up getting trampled into the snow, and only breaking her nose. Who knew snow could be such scary stuff?
 
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I never would have thought that would happen. Our arena was beastly. Seeing the steel beams warped gave me chills
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