Pictures of Lightning Strike

This continues my original post from July 18th about the lightning strike.  Here are pictures of the tree that was struck and the animals that did not get struck.  I am so thankful every day that 3 goats survived and all horses and ponies survived.  The horses and ponies were out in the pasture away from the barn when the lightning strike happened.  Please be careful when it's lightning outside!!

Jr. and Jet eating hay by the barn.  We've had Jr. since he was two years old and he is 14 now.  Jet is 18 years old and we've had him since he was six months old.  Jr. is a registered Paint gelding and Jet is a registered POA gelding.

Jet, my favorite!

All that is left is shredded trunk of the tree that got struck.

My three survivor goats, Andrew, Fudge, and Al Pine.  All very old wethers that we've had since they were babies.

More of the shredded tree.  This tree was 50 feet tall and about 3 feet around before it was struck.

Andrew and Al Pine

Al Pine, such a sweet boy, named after the Rescue Heroes t.v. show that Luke liked when he was a little boy

This is the chunk of tree that flew about 30 yards and landed by the big horses' barn.

Tree that flew 30 yards and scraped along the big horse barn and landed outside one of their stall doors

Chunk of tree by the big horse barn

Starlite, our beautiful Classic Shetland pony that we got from Bob and June Masters in Missouri when she was a yearling

Peppy, my best driving pony.  All three of my ponies are Classic Shetlands.

Flashy, a gorgeous mare out of Dolly, and Peppy above is her sire.  Dolly was Luke's first pony when he was five years old, and she was awesome.  Everywhere we went trail riding, people would want to buy her, she was such a great pony and very beautiful to look at.  

I am thankful these guys all survived the lightning, as huge trunks of tree flew everywhere in their paddocks.