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First reindeer, now cows: Lightning kills 19 in Texas

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Mary Bowerman of USA Today reports a lightning strike killed almost 20 cows in East Texas on Sunday, according to local reports.

lightening.cowsThe cows were huddled together beneath a tree during a storm, according to witness Victor Benson, KLTV reported.

“All of a sudden, a lightning bolt came down, and the cows just fell,” Benson told KLTV.

Benson told the news station, some of the cows got up and stumbled away, but others didn’t move.

The cows were killed in a lightning strike just days after more than 300 reindeer were killed by lightning during a storm in Norway.

Like the cows, the reindeer had congregated together during the storm on a mountain plateau.

Ashley Anderson, who owned the cows with her husband, said they were able to remove the bodies quickly and donated them to people who were able to use the meat.

 

Where’s Thor or Loki (having fun in Brisbane) 300 reindeer killed by lightning in Norway

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Friday was a bad time to be a reindeer navigating the barren Hardangervidda plateau in Central Norway.

reindeer.lightening.norway323 reindeer were killed by lightning strikes, in one fell swoop. Norway’s Environment Agency is at a loss as to how the massacre could have happened. Agency spokesman Kjartan Knutsen told the Associated Press that while it’s not uncommon for reindeer or other animals to be struck by lightning, the sheer scale of this massacre is singular.

The agency now faces the bizarre dilemma of what, if anything, to do with 300+ lightning-struck reindeer corpses. Usually, they would simply let the animals decay naturally, but the volume of dead reindeer presents a disturbing conundrum.

We’re looking to some sky-dwelling deity — possibly Odin, or Thor, or one of the other Norse gods with dominion over lighting (perhaps Loki?) — to address this tragedy.