Hi - we are not on the coast, but predictions include much rain and 70 MPH winds.  I've got the tarps up, extra shavings and hay in the barn, etc, etc but I wonder about the trailer.  I plan on hooking it up (so I won't have to in the wind and rain) and parking it so the nose of the truck is towards the oncoming wind.  I've shut the vents and will have the windows shut of course.  What else can I do to help keep water out of the trailer and LQ?

Thanks!

  I always park ours out in a pasture away from trees, buildings and other flying debris. It's hard to say what to do...  Be sure your truck fuel tank is topped off, and a couple cans of fuel in the pickup bed won't hurt. Fill all your water tubs, buckets, muck buckets, etc. I fill all my enclosed water vessels and put them in the bed of the truck. Throw a bag of feed in the back seat. Fill and load all your hay bags... And your bale bags. Plan as though your going away to a show for three weeks... Then maybe you'll have enough supplys for yourself and your friends that thought it (IKE) was going to go the other way!!!  You don't know for what you may have to load up and get the hell out of there. You are 208 miles, west north west of Galveston..... You may be OK!! Good luck and keep in touch.

  Sometimes I think we should just load them all up, drive west for and hour or so, leave them in the trailer then head home afther the storm has past.... no worse that hauling non-stop through the mountains for 12 hours...... Is it?

Last week when Hanna passed through, it had died down to 50 mph gusts when it passed over us.... Our horses were in the pasture grazing, enjoying the much needed rain!!

Having slept through some VERY wicked rain storms in a LQ trailer...(toppled trees less than 1/2 mile from where we were parked)  I don't think there's too much else you can do. I would think that pointing the back of the trailer at the winds/storm would be better to prevent windshield damage from flying debris.

Any loose materials around your yard - fence posts, buckets, trash cans, chairs, umbrellas, etc. be sure to secure them inside a building so they don't become missles. 

I don't see why the trailer should leak unduly... Many of us in the north where it rains many times a week and we regularly have heavy thunderstorms don't have too many issues. The worst I had was when I left the roof vents open in the horse area... my shavings got wet.

Good excuse to head out to VEGAS!!!

paintcrazytexan,

Why don't you take the horses with you?  I always took mine and stayed at a fair ground.

I opened this thread, and I was ready for the winds and rain, but once again the hurricane changed direction and missed us.  A good thing, but geez, we would have liked a little of the rain!  I watered yesterday instead of cleaning up from a storm!  Again, that is Texas weather for you.  I hope everyone who was in the new path of the storm was OK.

That was my thought too Terri .... I would NEVER leave mine behind.  All of us - horses, dogs, cats & humans - would have been loaded & out of there.  I hope all is ok with them.

Could be she had a problem like I would if I had to evacuate with all the livestock. A 3 horse LQ and an 18' stock trailer to haul 8 horses, and 16 cows. And the worst part is getting out. I left Baytown on Galveston Bay and drove to I-45 (her route out also) and it took 2 hrs and 50 minutes to go 45 miles due to traffic. Then had to stop to buy fuel and it was just like the 70's for lines waiting to get to the pump to fill up. I was lucky, all my stock is northwest of Ft. Worth and was completely out of the way of the storm remnants. I hope that paintcrazytexan rode it out okay and that her horses did likewise.

That is why I limit myself to what will fit in my trailer, of course we have the animals for pleasure not business.  No one was left behind the two times we had to evacuate.

That is why I limit myself to what will fit in my trailer, of course we have the animals for pleasure not business.  No one was left behind the two times we had to evacuate.

I'm not in the horse business either, just cattle. Horses are our family. And as for having only a number that will fit into the trailer you own, that won't help sitting in the traffic, crawling along in the heat, humidity, and quick tempers of people trying to get the hell out of Dodge before the storm hits. Of course had it been you and your rig I guess you could have parked it on the side of the road and saddled up and ridden to a shelter. Probably would be a lot quicker, too.

You're one of the smart ones, unlike the thousands now being rescued who chose to ignore the value of their own family's lives.

Gard

You said I was smart!!  Thanks.  Brett came ashore 30 miles from my house (we got a new roof) and Emily turned south and missed us.  We did get about 13 inches of rain from it though.