Tornado

The Frauhiger family farm in Bluffton, Indiana was hit last night at 9:00 pm by a tornado. Joan's daughter Bethany married Bill Frauhiger and this is his family farm. He, his parents and his brothers all own the farm and work hard making a living for the families by milking almost a thousand cows. The tornado spared the family houses but pretty much destroyed the farm buildings including the milking parlor, machine sheds, barns also destroying equipment, trailers, tractors and cows. The big blessing was that it hit at 9:00 pm which just happens to be break time for the many workers. There were NO workers in the building when it hit. Two of the workers were in the house trailer, one went to shut the door and was sucked out into the tornado, his brother said the trailer started spinning around and he was thrown outside. He started calling for his brother, who answered him, they just shut their eyes to try to protect them as the debris swirled around them. The only injury was broken ribs and a collapsed lung to the man sucked out into the tornado or the man thrown out of the trailer I haven't heard yet which man. He was taken to the hospital but will be fine. The Frauhiger family were amazed to find many of the cows survived. There were many with injuries and some so severe with boards sticking into them that they needed to be put down. This is a drone video taken today of the clean up.
Frauhiger Farms from The Chapel on Vimeo. Their church family, the Bluffton community came to help with many transporting over 800 cows to other farms for care.
We had a good morning at the Berean office. We had a special treat, Marvin brought in a rhubarb dessert his wife Gail made and after the work was done we enjoyed that treat. If you would like to read about our morning there click HERE.  As soon as I got home Derby, Julie's big paint mare, was teased and covered by Valiant. We have had so much rain here that the path to Valiant's gate is now soup. His legs had to be hosed off before the cover.  He could go out the field gate where there is no mud but he knows if he waits at the people gate he will get to do his job quicker so slops through the mud and waits for me to bring him out. It rained again this afternoon. Derby was put in the round pen while her stall was cleaned. She had a good roll but then ran around and around waiting for me to bring her back inside.  Sheena's colt had his IV taken out. He is doing very well and no longer needs it. He only got fluids once.  The vet clinic was called to arrange the health papers for Marika. She is leaving at 1:00 am. The transport company has a 10 horse trailer and a big truck. The rig is so big they are afraid they will not make the turn so Marika will be taken to the water tower when they get close. I'll need to sleep with the phone next to the bed as they will call when they are 15 minutes away.  Marika was given a bath and stalled. We will be sad to say good by to her but I really need to cut down on the work load here. Below Faith and Marika were posing for a picture for a perspective buyer.

The trailer was cleaned out and is ready. A big storm moved in this evening and has been dropping tremendous amounts of rain. This heavy rain is suppose to keep coming most of the night. It is going to be a wet transfer come 1:00 am.