Got home from a trip today. Hurricane Ian may hit us Wednesday.

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27. Yes - the biggest dangers are man made things

Years ago after Hurricane Andrew hit South Florida, a high school girl did research on horse and cattle deaths and injuries. She found that many injuries were from pieces of shingles torn off houses. They are like flying knives and can't really be avoided. On the other hand, large sheets of metal roofing travel slower and make a lot of noise, so the animals can move out of the way. Both my barn and my house have metal roofs partly because of her research.

Many livestock deaths from Andrew were from them taking shelter in water bodies when electric lines would fall into the water and electrocute the animals. In South Florida many of the water bodies are ditches dug to drain the fields or to raise roads, so there are often power lines running along them.

Barbed wire fences are extremely dangerous, whether the animals run into them or the wire comes loose from the posts. On the other hand, field or "woven" wire fence tend to sieve out flying debris so are much safer. Plus, the fence is usually attached in many more points to posts so don't tend to come loose as often.