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Location: Texas! | Well...went out to check on the horses one last time tonight, threw everyone another big flake of hay to top off what they had left. They of course were all fluffed up like teddy bears! Temp read as low as -36 degrees and I was using my iPhone as a flashlight and it ACTUALLY DIED OF HYPOTHERMIA!!!!! Holy cow!
  
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Location: Central Texas | No thank you! |
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 Texas Taco
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Location: Bandera, TX | Oh wow - how so you function?!?!? We are supposed to drop down to 30 degrees and we are all upset about. |
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 Northern Chocolate Queen
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Location: ND | Lovely isn't it.....our windchill is currently -30 & it's supposed to be WAY worse here by the end of the week. I have most of my ponies in the barn & the few that are outside have heavy blankets on & endless hay piled in their feeders......I'm so not ready for this weather already. |
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 Night Watchman
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Location: Central Montana | The temp in my car read -4 about an hour and a half ago, I don't know what we are at with the windchill. Friday the HIGH is supposed to be - 10.
I fed extra. Went and checked everyone and was going to blanket and the first one got annoyed while I was working on the straps so I took it off and went to the next one and he gave me a look that said he didn't want one either. Checked to make sure no one was acting or looking cold. The water heaters are running in the tanks, just have to make it until Monday, the high is supposed to be a whopping 19, it will be shorts and flip flop weather compared to this. |
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 Mature beyond Years
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Location: North of the 49th Parallel | Yup. Actual temperature is -4F and the windchill right now is -20F and supposed to get down to -36 tonight. This is after a huge snowstorm too. Tomorrow the HIGH is -13F. |
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Location: Texas! | We only have a blanket on the new one, he just came from Louisiana, great timing to get adjusted..UGH! He was warm and happy everyone else was puffed up but no one was shivering so threw extra hay and came home! |
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Location: Utah | My gelding peaked his head through the stall door and grabbed his blanket. Fell asleep as I was buckling him up, and he got that extra flake of hay. We are a balmy -2 compared to what you are having. |
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| Well hopefully its consistent...not like here. On Sunday it was 90 degrees, then it rained Monday, then yesterday it was hot, and now it's COLD (for San Diego standards, at least.) It's driving me nuts and a lot of horses are colicking...including one of mine who hasn't been acting right. Uggh!! Either be hot or cold...I can't stand this crap.  |
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| We are suppose to be -10 tonight I have been moving tank heaters to keep everyones water open the last two days, not enough electricity to keep one in all the tanks. I blanketed my broodies up since 3 of them moved her from Texas and aren't sure about the cold yet. I am hoping the wind doesn't pick up again like it did yesterday. Everyone got more to eat and I have to go check water again here in a bit. I am not ready for winter and they say we are suppose to be colder for longer than we have been in 40 yrs, Great just what I wanted to hear. I guess it could be worse we are still warm compared to some of you. |
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| Im just north of San Diego. Yep, was 80s all last week and now low 50s during the day and 30s at night. I gave electrolytes and warmed up their waters! |
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 A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Burrrr you girls that live in this cold cold weather are super tough  , I would never make it, I'm so glad I'm a Texan, but its going to get super cold for us here in the next few days and its going to be cold to us when it would feel like spring to you girls way up north. We're wimps, well I am for sure  |
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Red Bull Agressive
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Location: North Dakota | My phone is telling me it's 6 degrees here, not including the wind chill. I guess I'm a brave driver cause once I got off the HWY, the only sign of life on the way to the barn was a big tractor with a plow on it. Yay for my jeep! I brought each of the horses in the indoor and let them burn off some energy. I wasn't able to let them out of their pens for 6 DAYS cause of work and weather. Shimmer is fat and sassy and fluffy as a bear, but poor Buster is not growing a very good winter coat and despite plenty of hay and grain he's on the thin side. I do not believe in blanketing but I feel bad for him when it gets into the -'s. I LOVE snow, but when it gets into the single digits and lower, I have to remind myself that it could be in the 90's. YUCK. The weather should just stay between 20-70 degrees all the time. |
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Elite Veteran
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Location: Texas! | People think I am crazy because I grew up in Florida and lived in S. Georgia for a while then packed up and moved to Wyoming in the middle of the winter to finish school and well the rest is history lol. I tell you it sucks when its this cold, but I also HATE humidity and just blistering hot days! Our SUMMERS ROCK!! |
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A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | WYOracer - 2013-12-04 11:27 PM People think I am crazy because I grew up in Florida and lived in S. Georgia for a while then packed up and moved to Wyoming in the middle of the winter to finish school and well the rest is history lol. I tell you it sucks when its this cold, but I also HATE humidity and just blistering hot days! Our SUMMERS ROCK!!
Oh we do have our hot blistering days where sometimes the heat will suck the air outa you. Hate hate those days |
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 Money Eating Baggage Owner
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Location: Phoenix | I'm visiting home amd it was 55 in San Diego....16 at home. BRR. Crossing my fingers that there is no "w word" tomorrow so I can ride. |
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 More bootie than waist!
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | Its dang cold here too but we're also getting the blasted wind! makes the wind chill really drop and the snow we got the past couple days is drifting terrible. Hang tight girls, we only have 6 or 7 months of this.
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| I was complaining about 59 yesterday. Oh boy I feel like wuss now. I don't know how you girls do it. I'll take my summers over your winters any day. |
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 Best of the Badlands
Location: You never know where I will show up...... | You get used to it, after awhile. And just have to dress for it.
I spent all day outside riding young horses and doing chores. The wind chill was -19 when I went out after dinner but it was a warm 25 above in my arena lol.
Hubby fed cows while I was riding and said that hardly any of them even came to eat. They are all out grazing in this cold. |
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Tell It Like It Is
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Location: Wyoming | Wow. Glad we were not that cold. We were only -18 this morning. Soith of us they hit -30. Tgere was a breeze too which made it bitter. It got all the way up to 4 above this afternoon. Just got back from the barn and it is -9. Will go back to the barn later, to make sure everybody is drinking and top buckets off with warm water. The big guy got a liner under his blankie. :) |
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