Dear God. I’m glad you’re okay. My heart goes out to all of you.
Thanx for the concern. My family made out ok. Lost a few things, but they are just things, and insurance covers most of it. We came out very lucky, we know how blessed we are.
I did hate having to look over the rifle sights at the cattle I put down. Makes ya feel sick, seeing them looking up at you with those big eyes, trusting you to help make things ok.. and having to shoot them. The kid, wife, and I had raised several of them from the bottle and we had gotten pretty attached to them. I literally vomitted when I was done. My wife and son took that really hard. I feel like sh*t for having to do it. However, I guess I got lucky there too... one neighbor had to put 22 of his cattle down.
As bad as that is, losing the neighbors and friends is the worst. But at least we did not have to do the deed, or even see it, with them.
Kinda hard to deal with in some ways... we just keep reminding ourselves how well we have it and thanking God for protecting us.