So last night I ran an errand to the mall. There had been a severe thunderstorm watch in effect for a good part of the night, but it didn't look like there was a storm coming. I left Kane loose in the house, and headed out to the mall. When I left the mall, I noticed that it didn't "feel" like thunderstorm weather, so I didn't think much of it. However, by the time I made it to my car, there was lightning off in the distance. So I think "Uh oh" and start racing to get home to my dog and cats, thinking they'd be freaked out if the storm was up in our area. As I'm driving home, I can't keep my eyes off the sky, because the lightning show was just too much to handle! I wanted to watch it just go on and on! (I'd like to note that I did not take the above photo - I borrowed it from an online site to use as an illustration of the lightning that we were seeing in our area. It was taken by someone named Vlado Janzekovic.)
So I am driving home, just watching these streaks of lightning flying through the sky every 15 seconds or less. It was unbelieveable! And it didn't stop! The storm started around 8pm or so, and didn't quit until well after midnight! Everytime you'd think it was going away, it would pop right back up again, and it was unbelieveable.
John and I layed in bed last night, and he was telling me about driving home from his rehearsal in Gilford, and how he was seeing the same type of lightning, almost 2 hours after I was seeing it! We tried to remember storms when we were younger, and all we could rememer was these big flashes of light, but rarely being able to see lightning like that. We always pictured that type of lightning to be something you see out over the mid-west some where.
It was kind of neat while it lasted, and I'm glad that if we were going to get a cool heavenly light show like that, it happened at night so we could truely appreciate the awesome power Mother Nature has. That being said, I'm glad it's over too.
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