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The Bar => The Lounge => Topic started by: BlueStateSaint on August 29, 2016, 12:13:28 PM
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That had to be one powerful bolt . . . :panic:
More than 300 reindeer killed by lightning in Norway
Posted about 7 hours ago
More than 300 wild reindeer have been killed by lightning in southern Norway, Norwegian officials say, in the largest such incident known to date.
The 323 reindeer, including 70 young, were found on Friday by a gamekeeper on the Hardangervidda plateau, a national park where Europe's largest herd of some 10,000 wild reindeer roam freely.
Television footage showed the animals' dead bodies lying close together on the ground.
"There were very strong storms in the area on Friday. The animals stay close together in bad weather and these ones were hit by lightning," an official from the Norwegian Environment Agency, Kjartan Knutsen, told AFP.
The other four paragraphs are here: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-29/more-than-300-reindeer-killed-by-lightning-in-norway/7796418
Ouch! :argh: