Heavy horse toll as twister destroys farm

Latest: Tales of survival from Orr Family Farm

Up to 100 horses are feared dead afterward a massive tornado ripped through the Oklahoma City area.

Authorities tell ii people are known to accept died inwards twisters that ravaged the area, as well as vi are reported to accept died inwards Texas every bit storms generated a serial of deadly twisters.

Oklahoma as well as other Midwest areas stay on high alert, amongst fears the tempest organization could generate farther twisters.

KFOR.com, Oklahoma’s Channel 4, inwards a alive feed before today, reported on the devastation at the 106-acre Orr Family Farm inwards Moore.

The farm as well as an adjoining Equus caballus preparation as well as agistment facility took a massive hitting from the tornado.

Footage revealed consummate destruction, amongst the remains of stalls unrecognisable. Surviving horses could endure seen inwards the footage.

The station reported that 75 to 100 horses had died inwards the surface area as well as completely destroyed the farm, run past times Dr Glenn Orr as well as his family.

It is understood the farm’s stalls as well as barns took a straight hitting from the tornado, which was estimated to endure on the the world for xl minutes every bit it took out everything inwards its path. It was estimated to endure 3.2 kilometres wide.

Residents had almost sixteen minutes to essay safety.

The Orr household unit of measurement farm, responding to messages of back upward on its Facebook page, said: “Thank y'all for all your thoughts as well as prayers. We are miserable nosotros cannot reply to each of y'all at this time, every bit nosotros are focusing on our staff, families as well as the farm.

“We are physically alright, only nosotros accept sustained a large amount of harm at the farm, as well as side past times side properties.

“We are yet assessing harm to both properties as well as animals.”

Orr Family Farm spokesman Tony Vann told Horsetalk that communications were difficult, only he managed to obtain a brief update past times text-messaging Dr Orr’s son, Tom.

He said the household unit of measurement as well as staff were all right, only he did non accept information on the animals.

He said he had heard the study of 75 to 100 Equus caballus deaths, only could non confirm that.

He said the block of the world where Orr Family Farm stood also housed about other business, Celestial Acres, which was a Equus caballus preparation as well as agistment facility.

It is understood the Orr household unit of measurement also ain that business.

Vann said Orr Family Farm did non accept 75-100 horses on its property. That raised the likelihood that at to the lowest degree about of the reported Equus caballus deaths may accept occurred on the agistment property.

Vann said the neighborhoods devastated past times the tornado seen on media footage were inwards about cases exclusively a few hundred metres from the Orr property.

He said at that spot were v staff as well as household unit of measurement inwards the farm’s management office, addition seasonal workers, on site when the tornado approached. All were able to hit security before it struck.

 

 

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