Tales of survival from Orr Family Farm

Oklahoma City’s Orr Family Farm, extensively damaged when hitting past times a massive tornado on Monday, reports that all animals inward its petting zoo too brute barn survived the twister.

The pop farm attraction, run past times Dr Glenn Orr too family, reported that the farm’s riding ponies for children, Annie, Joey, Sister too Lil Bit, also survived.

At the adjoining property, an agistment too preparation facility named Celestial Acres, which is understood to live run past times Dr Orr’s son, Tom, 34 horses convey survived.

Orr Family Farm spokesman Tony Vann said the prognosis for those horses was really favouorable, adding that their survival had been a miracle.

The tidings comes every bit the perish cost inward Oklahoma stands at 24, every bit government move along to alternative through neighborhoods flattened past times the tornado.

The solid unit of measurement too staff at Orr Family Farm, working inside a cordon imposed past times authorities, are however trying to assess their animals too the impairment to the farm.

Reports convey indicated that 75 to 100 horses may convey perished inward the tornado, which flattened entire neighborhoods unopen to the farm during the xl minutes it spent on the ground.

Orr Family Farm staff fellow member Lando Hite told KFOR tidings almost the tempest hitting the farm. “It was only similar the film ‘Twister,'” he said. “There were horses too materials flight unopen to everywhere.”

Vann said at that topographic point was no count at this phase on animals lost.

He told Horsetalk that numbers were hard to assess, every bit at that topographic point were horses on other farms nearby to the Orr Family Farm too Celestial Acres that had also been badly hit. It was non slowly to position such animals at the introduce fourth dimension every bit they moved amid the debris.

He said the solid unit of measurement too staff were working inward hard conditions, alongside overcast conditions, rain, too the threat of to a greater extent than thunderstorms.

He said that at that topographic point was sufficient feed supplies on site at introduce to maintain the surviving animals going.

“They don’t postulate them now, but that’s non to state they won’t postulate them inward the future.”

Vann said the offers of assist too messages of back upwardly had been wonderful.

He said those wanting to assist inward the recovery should remain set for now, every bit government had established 68 points of entry to the disaster zone too alone emergency responders or those living inward the surface area were beingness permitted through.

It was however a rescue too recovery situation, he said.

On its Facebook page The Orr Family Farm thanked readers for their “generous offers of support, prayer, form messages too offers of goods too monetary donations.”

A PayPal account has been ready for those who wishing to assist the Farm.