I'm gonna say one gets nailed once in a while. I've almost been hit by 2 deadfalls, and spend little time in the woods
compared to a Deer. Is it "Deer 101" to go out in an open field when it's roaring like it was last night ? The woods were
rocking here from 11:15pm to about 1:30 am. I have several trees and many tops and branches down. Just had to wonder
what a Deer strategy would be, and if more mature animals handle it better. I would have been scared to death to be
outside last night. Add in flash floods and downed wires and traffic type stuff. ???

I bet they faired better than people did.

Got pics sent to me of some moving last night about the time the winds were at their strongest for here

Kip Adams made a post on TikTok about this yesterday. He said that 84 whitetails wearing gps collars were tracked in the panther national wildlife refuge where Hurricane Irma hit in 2017. All 84 deer survived. Here is the link to what he said about it.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTFBwvu5W/

I found 3 dead under a tree struck by lightning about 15 years ago. Only time I’ve seen any storm related mortality.

I saw that yesterday too and was going to share it to this post but couldn’t remember who posted it. Pretty neat info

Usually when it’s raining I have deer bedded down in the front pasture

I know when we got hit by hurricane Michael back in 2018 I heard of a couple different people that found deer dead from trees falling on them and they just happen to find them. To me it's believable because I can't tell you how many tracts of planted pines that had trees 8-10 inches around and every tree was broke off 10-15 feet up.