{"id":6451,"date":"2016-03-19T22:27:09","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T02:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=6451"},"modified":"2016-03-19T22:27:09","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T02:27:09","slug":"gimme-shelter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/03\/gimme-shelter\/","title":{"rendered":"Gimme shelter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<em>Grazing the Net<\/em>&#8221; blog had an interesting story this week about a farm in Texas that goes above and beyond the usual to protect their investment in prime livestock from severe weather. \u00a0This farm is a breeding facility for champion horses, and they have a number of stallions with a value of up to several million dollars each.<\/p>\n<p>Since the farm is located in a region with many strong tornadoes, they have built a tornado shelter that holds not only the farm workers but also up to 12 of their top stallions. \u00a0The shelter is so strong that it can withstand a direct hit from an EF5 tornado. \u00a0You can watch a video of the story and read more about it from <em>KXII<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kxii.com\/home\/headlines\/Texoma-ranch-keeps-Stallions-safe-with-tornado-shelter-372188472.html?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRousqjMZKXonjHpfsX%2F6uUpXaeg38431UFwdcjKPmjr1YIBSsFiI%2BSLDwEYGJlv6SgFQrTGMbln2LgKUhI%3D\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. \u00a0What do you do to protect your farm, livestock and family from severe weather?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/03\/stalliontornadoshelter.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6452\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6452\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/03\/stalliontornadoshelter-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"stallion+tornado+shelter\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/03\/stalliontornadoshelter-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/03\/stalliontornadoshelter-247x138.jpg 247w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/03\/stalliontornadoshelter.jpg 353w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Grazing the Net&#8221; blog had an interesting story this week about a farm in Texas that goes above and beyond the usual to protect their investment in prime livestock from severe weather. \u00a0This farm is a breeding facility for champion horses, and they have a number of stallions with a value of up to several [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":6452,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-livestock","category-severe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6453,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6451\/revisions\/6453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}