I have friends that were on the ranch during the 96-97 winter and they are forever changed by that experience. Literally, forever and forever changed. The stress of the weather was incredible.
I feel we fared very well during this blizzard as far as saving calves, losses were minimal. Its alot of extra work dragging them in the barn, warming up chilled calves, and getting them all sucking on momma again. The problem with these storms is the cold temps that seem to follow them and the frickin wind that never lets up. Now this last storm was mainly just rain for us but it turned everything into a muddy sloppy mess. I want to move the cows to a drier pasture but don't have as much protection there and with the 30+ mph winds today might be impossible to get the calves to move with. Basically all of us ranchers just need a break, this storm after storm after storm is getting to be to much.