Excellent. Just excellent. I’ll have to tether the foal to a big rock to stop her being blown away.
Try not to worry too much! I have been through several hurricanes. It’s always extremely stressful.
If it lands as a category 2 all should be fine. Make sure the horses can shelter behind the house. Look at wind directions on the storm and pick the protected side of the house to throw hay/water. Or the barn or whatever shelter the horses can use as a wind block.
Hopefully it weakens before landfall. Stay safe and update when you can.
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So have I. A cat 4 and cat 5 in the last 15 years, plus a few cat 1-2s. We live in a cyclone-state, so everything is cyclone rated: house, shed, shelters. It’s what blows through your paddock you worry about.
It is now predicted to re-intensify to a cat 3 closer to land by Dec 13, but who knows with these things!
I will post pictures if it comes over us!
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Good luck. Hopefully it turns into a non-event for you.
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Current forecast has it crossing directly over us on Wed as at Cat 3. Still two days until we feel it, and it could do anything. Looks to be a good sized bastard too.
The sky has put on its early warning colours.
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Fingers crossed for an uneventful storm!
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Hoping you are still in one piece.
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This is my horse paddock. The rain is still on-going. My mum is without power or phone for over two days now. For a “fizzer” it smashed the region.
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I hope you and yours are ok!
Actually, not really. We’ve had 500mls since Wednesday and it is not abating. There is a forecast that today will be more of the same, with more rain possibly coming back at the end of the week.
My paddocks and shelters are under water. I’ve exhausted my square-bale hay supply and I can’t get rounds out as the tractor is flooded in. I’m concerned about the health of my foal; she’s dry but can’t get any sleep in the dry. So she’s covered in mud from sleeping in the mire that is my shelter. I’ve been trying to find emergency accommodation for her and her mother but the whole area is flooded and overrun with all the down-the-hill evacuees. So tomorrow her and her mum are going to hang out on the patio… Needs must.
This is a level of flooding I’ve never seen before here, and is unprecedented. My older horses are doing ok, though my old girl is also struggling a bit.
I’m exhausted from working nights on a skeleton crew and going home to slog through mud trying to find high ground to feed out hot fibre and oil mashes every few hours (no grazing) to keep everyone warm and their tummies moving.
That sounds extremely challenging, stressful and exhausting.
I am jingling hard that you get relief soon
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So sorry you’re going though this mess. I hope it stops soon, for everyone involved.
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Evacuations for lower areas of my town began today. We are cut off from all areas in every direction. My float is almost under water. It’s absolutely dire.
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Omg! Scary! I am jingling for you!
Image © Ken Turner (pinched from the local rag)
This is down-the-hill from us. My mum has had 1.5 metres of rain in 5 days. It has surpassed the 1977 floods (worst on record) and is now known as our 100-year-event.
The ex-cyclone has still not crossed into the gulf. It is still sitting on the west coast from us, just… sitting. Dumping rain on us.
Cows from high ground are being washed into the ocean. I have no idea how the horses left in the paddocks in the area pictured above (paddocks are a few k away but in the same flood zone) have fared. Drowned by now. The owners were told to move them last week.
I got my mare and foal into my coach’s stable so they are dry. Not warm, but safe and dry. My other three are stuck in the flooded paddocks. Tomorrow I will see if they want to hang out on Mount Ararak for the day. (I can’t put them in the carport tonight - too slippery now)
I’m crying on the inside, Basil Fawlty style.
Thank you 
This ABC news rolling-update has some good images
Live updates: Emergency flood alerts issued for parts of Far North Queensland in the wake of ex-Tropical Cyclone Jasper - ABC News
Latest: Areas of beach-side regions (where at least two big agistment centres are) are being evacuated right now due to flooding. I sold a horse there, have to check with his new owner tomorrow to see how he is going.
Video footage https://youtu.be/X4eaIZColXA
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That’s awful.
Is the rain easing up on you yet?
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