Poll
Scary Mother Nature
What potential natural disaster are you most concerned about?
Total votes cast: 237
Comments & Write-in Answers
severe hail
6/25/2012 6:23:39 PM
big storms that knock out power for several days and make it difficult to water horses fire is the w
6/25/2012 3:20:30 PM
blizzards
6/25/2012 11:35:33 AM
I do not know if it is safer to leave the animals out or put them in the barn.
6/25/2012 11:25:34 AM
We're near tonado alley. We had one here 3 years ago, about 6 miles from my barn.
6/23/2012 4:42:21 PM
I have more horses than I have room for in my horsetrailer.
6/22/2012 4:42:20 PM
lightening
6/22/2012 12:26:29 PM
Wildfire is the only possibility where I live in reality.
6/22/2012 12:05:23 PM
High winds and lightning potentially leading to fire or collapse of the barn scare me.
6/22/2012 11:33:44 AM
Prolonged freezing - water pipes freeze up, ground very hard and no grass
6/22/2012 5:15:03 AM
I know what to do in a hurricane, but tornadoes scare me the most.
6/21/2012 10:24:00 PM
Several natural disaters concern me, no one in paticular.
6/21/2012 6:42:30 PM
We live in the Pacific "Ring of Fire", so the potential is real.
6/21/2012 6:33:28 PM
Tornado -one went 1/8 mile by the farm
6/21/2012 6:08:04 PM
Fire as result of lightning strike
6/21/2012 3:23:05 PM
in the midwest - tornados are the main natural danger as opposed to the others listed.
6/21/2012 10:11:29 AM
live in huuricane prone SE TX, but at least forecasters can provide ample warning for hurricanes.
6/21/2012 9:03:52 AM
barn fires are the scariest
6/21/2012 8:57:48 AM
Lightning storms...risk of fire.
6/21/2012 1:28:50 AM
Tornadoes
6/20/2012 10:54:14 PM
tsunami
6/20/2012 10:02:00 PM
In our new home, wildfires pose a real danger. My concern is when to evacuate our horses.
6/20/2012 9:06:26 PM
Noreasters
6/20/2012 8:56:54 PM
Snow storms which cut the electricity.
6/20/2012 1:56:26 PM
Tornadoes are our biggest threat
6/20/2012 12:03:19 PM
evil cold hearted people
6/20/2012 10:55:02 AM
tornadoes, lightning, and ice storms
6/20/2012 9:17:42 AM
This is our #1 threat in the Midwest
6/20/2012 8:29:07 AM
Lightening. I live in the lightening capital of the United States, Florida.
6/20/2012 8:17:03 AM
Hurricanes are the only problem in our area; associated high winds are the concern
6/20/2012 7:46:22 AM
LIghtning strike on the barn--the potential for a barn fire terrifies me.
6/19/2012 7:10:54 PM
Altho in the desert,brush and scrub trees that pose a fire risk; we have cleared our prop of both
6/19/2012 5:51:58 PM
dry desert grassland and high winds equals disaster waiting to happen
6/19/2012 5:18:36 PM
although fires are always a problem
6/19/2012 4:25:55 PM
drought
6/19/2012 3:41:38 PM
Living in the sierras is our biggest fear fires!
6/19/2012 10:40:10 AM
ZOMBIES
6/19/2012 9:33:06 AM
I think it depends on geographic area, but tornadoes are concerning in my area.
6/19/2012 9:08:44 AM
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really its seems all the above are disasters
6/25/2012 10:34:23 PM