Was there no weather-person predicting LOTS and LOTS of rain? Those clouds off in the distance, a-comin' this way HAD to mean something. Hard to believe that the modern gadgets to forecast the weather were SO FAR wrong.
Oh well, their insurance will pay up. And, the price of meat will rise. "Poor" farmers and ranchers AREN'T going to lose.
Wow you don’t have a clue. Most ranchers live on thin margins and the insurance doesn’t cover it. No amount of price increase in meat is going to save some of these ranches or cover the losses.
No, there were weather forecasters actually pooh-pooh’ing their computer models.
There were forecasters out of Rapid City on TV saying “the models are telling us we might have up to four feet, but there’s no way I see that happening, maybe a foot to two feet in spots...”
Well, as you see from caww’s pictures on this thread, eastern WY and into Rapid City got four-freakin’-feet. For real. With drifts much deeper than that. Winds up to 50+ MPH.
And there’s not much insurance on cattle in events like this. It’s not like crop insurance.