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In a video with the Oklahoma Farm Bureau, Kyle Glazier, a farmer and rancher in Kingfisher County, uses an ax to break up ice in a tub that is several inches thick. He said he doesn’t remember weather like this.
“I tried to prepare as best I could. I tried to get all the hay arranged where I could get to it even if the roads get bad,” Glazier said.
The temperatures are historic. Oklahoma City saw temperatures dip as low as -15 degrees, according to the National Weather Service in Norman. That makes work difficult for ranchers like Nocona Cook, who raises cattle and grows wheat outside of Cordell in southwest Oklahoma. He says he has to haul water to his wheat, but with the low temperatures, it can freeze by the time he gets there.