A Flying Cowboy Rides to Rescue Cattle Stranded in Harvey’s Floods The devastating rain put thousands of animals at risk of drowning, but a cowp

BAY CITY, Tex. — “I’m gonna mash ’em out.”

Ryan Ashcraft spotted some cattle loitering in standing water under a clump of trees and came out of a long, sweeping curve in his small helicopter to drop toward a clearing so narrow it seemed the blades might give the treetops a haircut — and potentially send Mr. Ashcraft and his passenger on a one-way trip to the afterlife.

Mr. Ashcraft, 22, dipped toward the cattle and then pulled up sharply and hovered; the maneuver made the blades produce a sharp POP-POP-POP-POP-POP. The animals hate the noise, which puts many of them on the run.

A dead one

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A dead animal near Damon, Tex. “If people lose all of their cattle they’d go broke and have to sell their land,” Mr. Ashcraft said

Wow, that's quite a story in the New York times. There's probably going to be a big need for dry hay and feed for all the livestock affected by Hurricane Harvey.

Insightful and compassionate. I love it.