A family in Rush saves dying horse during Wednesday’s blizzard

The hardest hit areas of Wednesday’s blizzard was eastern rural homes and ranches blindsided by snow and high winds that nearly claimed the life of a 22-year-old horse who nearly froze on a ranch in Rush.

Meet Bernadette, also known as “Bernie”

Pictured above is Bernie walking in the stable with her owner Carrie Terroux Barrett.

“I’m so grateful she’s alive,” said Barrett. “She was actually in this stall, closed in, and managed to get out of her door and crawl over a {6 foot} snow bank.”

Until those 95mph winds trapped Bernie inside the snow where she was stuck and stranded for three hours.

“We ended up having to cut down the stall fence to get her pulled out from under the snow bank,” said Barrett, who explained the snow drift was easily 1 1/2 feet over the gate.

The snow drift not only filling up their stable, towering cars, and even blowing a tractor trailer into their barn.

“I think we were all in fear, it would have been really easy for any of us to get hurt,” said Barrett.

But not even a storm this vicious could stop this family from doing whatever it takes to save one of their own.

“It’s a miracle that she made it out alive,” she said.

Bernadette is thankfully the only horse that was threatened during the storm and she is now alive and well.