Snow storm after snow storm has caused hazardous conditions all over the United States–the last storm causing major havoc in the South including Dallas where the sideroads, freeways, bridges, exit lanes, and parking lots were covered with dangerous unrelenting ice. The last storm has caused thousands of flights being cancelled over the past few days. GoHorseShow.com has tracked down some amazing winter photos from several horse lovers across the country. Send us your photos so we can post them on the site. Everyone be safe and stay warm.
Top trainer Katy Jo Pickard tells us a crazy weather story that happened the past few day at her place in Lapeer, Michigan.
Katy Jo in her own words:
Jason Ducharme had to drop off some horses at my house yesterday morning. So he calls me around 8 am and asks how my driveway is before he comes over. My drive is a all of 1/4 mile long and totally uphill. Well it wasn’t bad at eight but by the time he got here around 11 it was bad. The snow had really started to come down! So anyway he has 4 wheel drive and because of the angle of my driveway its impossible to see how deep the snow is. Well he turns in and punches it and gets less than 1/4 in and hits this snow like a wall. Boom, nothin. So the snow keeps coming down harder and Brian who works for me goes out to try to help him get out but all they do is get it more stuck. Finally about four hours later (its a complete whiteout by now) they give up and unload the horses. But by now the snow is as high as the horses bellies. You can’t tell in my pictures but that is where the wind blows the snow across my yard so what you see is the snows absolute lowest point. So Brian is young and skinny and wirey and he hopes right up on his horse but Jason is a little different story. But he has no choice cuz the snow is so deep that its to his waist. I would have given $1k to see him climb on but it must have been pretty funny because his horse was very green broke and had never seen snow before and he had a blanket on and Jason is not a 
little guy. Plus there is a video we took and Brian is laughing so hard he’s almost crying! We agreed that it must have been sheer will that he got on. Best part is the horse was trying to get a little cold backed but he couldn’t buck because the snow was so deep. So anyway up the drive come Brian and Jason horseback and Jason is still here this morning at 10 am waiting on the snow plow to dig us out. My plow guy is pretty busy! I can honestly say I have never seen snow like this in my entire life..Update: Now the snow plow guy is stuck in my driveway too so we had to call the the neighbor across the road with a huge tractor that has 6 tires that are bigger than a person and even he got stuck twice…. unbelievable!
APHA exhibitor Lauren Michelle Kelly who lives about an hour north of St. Louis tells us how the weather has disrupted her life in the past few days.
Kelly in her own words:
I live about an hour north of St. Louis, Missouri on the Illinois side, in Brighton, Illinois. Our weather started on Monday– I had class in the morning, but my community college cancelled all classes after 12:30 pm, and remained closed through Wednesday. Monday morning-afternoon we had a lot of rain. It didn’t start freezing until about 11 am. I came out of my hour-long class with icicles hanging from my car mirror. On the way home cars were beginning to slide through stoplights, but nearly everyone was being very careful, using headlights, placing a lot of space in between cars, etc. We got about 0.2″ of ice on the trees and sidewalks before the snow started
falling. The snow began about 2AM on Tuesday, and lasted on and off until Wednesday at about 1pm. All told, we got about 10″ of precipitation! Hard to tell exactly how much snow we received when there is a thick coat of sleet mixed in. I-70 had to be closed from about 45 mi. west of St. Louis all the way to Kansas City due to the drifting snow. Luckily we didn’t get the worst of it. Missouri and North of us got hit much harder. Our horses did not like being cooped up while it rained/sleeted/and snowed, and they ran out of the barn this morning kicking and bucking all the way to the arena!
AQHA Exhibitor Jenna Dempze who now lives in Purcell, Oklahoma sent us some pics.
Here’s some pics I took around my yard and house, taken today high of 10 degrees on February 3rd and a week ago on January 27th–it was 72 degrees in Purcell! The snow storm on Tuesday made me feel like I was in a violent snow globe!
Kerry and Lew Papendick’s, High View Ranch in Rapid City, South Dakota. -6 degrees. An inch of ice on barbed wire.
AQHA Trainer Taylor Hanes of Shelbyville, Tennessee shared some of his gorgeous and fun winter photos.
Trainer Kyle DeFreece of Williamsburg. Iowa sent us this photo showing three semis that got into a major wreck. This happened last night. There’s a third semi behind the red one. All facing east on the westbound side of the road. “Bet those drivers had to change out their drawers,” DeFreece said.
Here is a photo by Laura Gilmer of GoHorseShow who took a photo from her phone from a hotel parking lot in Fort Worth Texas showing it a solid sheet of ice.
Debbi Trubee of Pine View Farms of North Lawrence, Ohio shows the ice encasing her whole truck.
Cyndi Brown of Gainesville, Texas shared a photo during a blizzard with one of her horses outside. Then she sent a photo on Saturday of her dog on top of the frozen block of ice from her water trough as everything has finally begun to melt.
Former GoHorseShow.com Director of Sales, Don Bell with his six month old daughter, Trinity at their home in Weatherford, Texas.
Jetta Stingray McCoy enjoying the high amounts of snow in Peculiar, Missouri owned by Youth: Cassie Phelps
Submitted by Tyler and Darlene O’Neal. Fort Scott, Kansas–dog owned by Tim and Gypsy O’Neal
Photos taken by Clarice Cooper at her farm in Georgia
Candace Jussen took photos of her adorable little dog who definitely didn’t like the cold, and some beautiful pictures of her farm during the Texas snow storm.
Sarah Rosciti who lives in Rhode Island went across the border to Connecticut and took these gorgeous pictures.
