Norway: flash kills......

[Foxi]

.....over 300 caribous/reindeers at Nationalpark Hardangervidda
Terrible
Foxi

 

[Red Leg]

Good Lord - what did this?

 

[lcq]

lightning, holy crap talk about odd.

 

[spike.t]

http://norwaytoday.info/news/322-reindeer-killed-lightning/

@Red Leg and @lcq

 

[Bullthrower338]

Lightning? Wow, never heard of that many being killed!

 

[cpr0312]

WOW! Saw that this morning

 

[Ragman]

Wow, that's incredible. We had 2 beef cows killed by lightning one summer and have seen other herds lose up to a dozen in one lightning strike, but nothing even close to 322 animals. Very sad.

 

[Pheroze]

Terrible news. Really bizarre.

 

[PHOENIX PHIL]

Wow, hard to imagine a single strike would have killed that many.

 

[johnnyblues]

That is incredible. What a shame for them.

 

[BRICKBURN]

One of the reasons to run for the low lands when you are hiking high in the rocks.

Must have been a good storm and some nice wet ground to catch so many.

 

[Wheels]

Electrifying.

Never heard of lightning killing so many animals with a strike.

 

[BRICKBURN]

The Aussies apparently have a lost a few sheep (all in one go) to lightning

 

[siml]

Tragedy but life..

Those sheep must have broken a few Aussie hearts.

 

[Pondoro]

It is indeed very odd...this happened within my county..

Our wildlife people are investigating the incident..

 

[spike.t]

Tragedy but life..

Those sheep must have broken a few Aussie hearts.

yeah i hope @bluey isnt too depressed about that.........

 

[kathy]

What a shame. Forrest

 

[CAustin]

Amazing! The power of Mother Nature can never be under estimated but I would not of even considered lightening to be the cause if not told?

 

[Cucuy]

Maybe, maybe not. I know nothing about this, but here's something to consider from a participant on Gary Reeder's site (an American gunsmith):

Lightning is a part of the E3 (Environmental Effects) area of Electromagnetics that I worked in for over 48 years and I have never seen a strike foot print with the number of leaders that would be required to be present to cover such a wide area. The normal strike cross sectional diameter of a normal 1.5 megavolt 25000 amp strike is about 6 inches. I would be more inclined to look for some sort of disease that strikes fast and would kill a lot of these ungulates rapidly. Perhaps anthrax or some other disease that would act within a few days. The bellies are well swollen in the picture so I suspect that they have been dead over a period of several days. Long enough for a disease to have killed that many raindeer. Just my opinion in the for what its worth department.

 

[petrusg]

This is a true reflection of how powerful mother nature is! If i didn't see it i would have never believed that lightning could take out so many animals in a flash.

I don't agree with the disease comment, in my opinion if it was disease they would never had died together, surely they would have wondered off from each other a bit.

But makes you think if they weren't possibly poisoned with something really fast acting and deadly.