Winter Storm

Blowing snow has closed roads and caused power outages across Sheridan County. Many homes in the country are without power as well as Antelope, Reserve and Medicine Lake. Crews are busy trying to repair the outages and are making good progress. The City of Plentywood had their main well down for over 24 hours, and water reserves were running low (this includes fire protection). It was finally repaired and brought back on line late this afternoon. Crews are to be commended.

Cattle are out of water with frozen lines and waterers. After a little research, I was able to find out that cattle do just fine eating snow. There is little or no performance drop from eating snow as a water source. The only thing I could find that might be a problem was a 2-3 day delay until they discover that they can actually eat snow!!