LA GRANGE, Texas -- Hurricane Harvey's historic rainfall left the state with more than $90 million in livestock losses, but for some La Grange ranchers, the price they paid could have been worse.

Swift action made it easier to move on to greener pastures.

A year ago, Spectrum News captured video of 59-year-old Larry Herbrich’s cattle fleeing the floods of Hurricane Harvey. Water levels were more than waist deep. His business, Herbrich Brothers, has 18 brood cows on a 72-acre ranch in La Grange.

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“If you lose your livestock, it’s part of your living, your profit that you’re losing,” Herbrich said.

During the storm, Herbrich and his guys spent hours fighting to save their livelihood.

“(The cattle) didn’t want to move, they didn’t want to go anywhere and we couldn’t get them out," he said. "Without the volunteers helping us to get the cattle out, it would have never happened.”

They took the cows from the corner of North Water Street and West Guadalupe Street to higher elevation, up to Main Street, and then west to Von Rosenberg Road, toward Highway 71. They ended up on another rancher's field just east of the highway.  

"You can see this large hill back here and that’s what we had to do, we had to take the cattle to high ground, where they would be safe," Herbrich said.

Herbrich Brothers did not lose a single cow during Harvey.

“I thank God for that,” Herbrich said.

But hundreds of hay bales were destroyed, fencing needed to be replaced, and vehicles required repair. It cost the family thousands of dollars and took almost half the year to get fixed. According to Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service economists, Hurricane Harvey caused a total of more than $200 million in damage to the agriculture and livestock industries across the state. Despite the expense, Herbrich said he is not concerned that something like Harvey will happen again.

“There’s still issues that need to be done," Herbrich said, "But it’s not bad. We’re almost normal and we’re good.”