Newstory: Lightning Kills White Buffalo

Really too bad that this happened - maybe there will be another one. Sue

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Lightning kills rare white buffalo in Wisconsin
BY DAVID HAWLEY
Pioneer Press

The rare white buffalo was named Miracle Second Chance when it was born on a Wisconsin farm last August during a massive thunderstorm.

On Monday, "Chance" was buried after being killed by lightning and buffalo farmers Dave and Val Heider of rural Janesville were trying, as mourners often do, to find something meaningful in the loss.

Heider discovered the five dead buffalo when he went to check on the animals before going to work.

The white calf's mother was walking around and grunting, so Heider followed her up the hill where he found the five dead buffalo with burn marks laying near a tree.

"It's so ironic," Val Heider said today. "There was a crack of lightning that lit up the sky on the day he was born and the same thing happened on the night he died."

The short life ? Chance lived three months and one day ? had renewed interest in the Heider farm, home for a decade to Miracle, a white buffalo born there in 1994.

During Miracle's 10-year life, hundreds of thousands of pilgrims visited the 45-acre farm in southern Wisconsin. The visitors included Indians from North America, Inuit from northern Canada, Aborigines from Australia and even Tibetan monks.

For American Indians, in particular, Miracle was seen as the living embodiment of an ancient legend about the origins of sacred rites and the promise of a dawning era of peace and harmony.. . . . . . .

"It wasn't even raining, but it was like daylight outside," Val Heider said. "The thunder cracked all the way across the sky."

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Sad story i hate lightning  me and 10 others were struck once when we were 15

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no melted zippers my one buddy died and a dog one guys toes were smokin steam are something,,,my right arm had felt like it was blown off and i was kinda walking like the hunchback of notre dame for a few minutes. man i tell you it sounded like a 10 howitzers cannons going off,I read somewhere about are incedent at the time that it was something like 90,000 volts the one buddy of mine Gary  that died that day was sitting on the cedar root that had got hit,I had been sitting with him just before it happened i had went to the campfire to get more grub I guess my stomach saved me no pun intended  all the rest of us were blown off are feet we were a just a group of kids on a camping trip for troubled youth ran through a juvenile detion center they had gone to the diffrent schools to get kids for the program that were some what trouble makers it was called camp D.A.R.E  seems like just yesterday

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As much time as I've spent outdoors over the years- I consider myself very lucky nothing has ever happened to me. I'm sure I've had some close calls but someone above really must like me.

Steve

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Very Sad the Native Americans will mourn this loss... ...  Great Spirit take this sacred spirit to the west to be with the ancestors and watch over us all.
Elan-Koo-mank-wha (we are all related)

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