MidnightWatcher – Prophecy in Motion

By Sarah Stewart – “CROMWELL, Okla. — Richard Butler’s Cromwell farm was destroyed by Saturday night’s hail. “It was about baseball size. It came down hard. It was putting holes in some of our buildings. It was shattering windshields, denting our cars,” Butler said.

But in addition to property damage, Butler discovered some unusual casualties strewn about his property.

‘This morning, I had one dead gull in my yard,’ Butler said.

And walking his land, he discovered dozens more dead seagulls.

Butler called Rondi Large with WildCare, an animal hospital and health care facility.

Large walked the property collecting the dead birds that she identified as Franklin gulls.

She said they must have been migrating south when they got caught up in the massive hail storm.

‘We’re seeing an awful lot of badly broken wings and head trauma. We’ll see fractured backs and things like that with that size hail on these birds,’ Large said.

But among the devastation, they discovered a bit of hope, five different Franklin gulls found alive.

‘That’s what we were hoping for is after all the ones that we’re picking up dead, that we’ll still be able to find a few that we can save,’ Large said.” Read more.