One Saturday morning, after Jared Blackwelder, a Springfield farmer, fed his dairy cows, he and his wife Misty heard some loud crashes. They didn’t pay it much heed.
Later, when Blackwelder went back to the pasture to get the cows for the evening milking, he was met with a tragic scene: 32 of his dairy cows were heaped on one another, lifeless on the mulch.
A local vet who checked the cows told Coday that lightning had caused their deaths.
Maybe the cows huddled together for shelter behind the trees during the storm. The area’s been hit hard by recent bad weather and flooding.