Can they stay up at the house until the weather clears up or is there any place for them there?
Yes, there is --- that's why I was concerned to get them up here.
In front of the house is a big corral and a shelter. It is close to the house where I can get their feed and hay to them on foot.
That's when I was sliding the hay down to them on the ice in the driveway. My driveway is straight downhill about 50 yards to the corral.
I was anxious to get them up there where they could shelter and eat well, and so I managed it.
Usually down in that pasture in the valley, they are fine ---- lots of grass and big live-oak groves to shelter under, which serve very well except for the snow/ice storm which we so rarely have.
It caught all of us here off guard.