The Lightning Storm

We have witnessed a fair share of wild and intense storms since we've moved to the Midwest but nothing compared to the intense electrical storm that blasted the area on Wednesday night! We kept a close tab on Doppler radar as a fierce storm cell closed in on the area from the north. It hit us around 11pm with the most wicked display of lightning I had ever seen! Nature's display of power and fury illuminated the night's sky like a strobe light. Rain pelted the house in sheets and dumped over 2" of rain in an hour's time. LIghtning danced all around and the thunder clapped in applause. There were times that the thunder and lightning were instantaneous and we knew the strikes were close. How close? One particular strike split the bark off a tree no more than ten feet from our house! The result? It blew out our television set, our cable modem, our router and our new computer that I just built two weeks ago. Amazing to think that Tyson slept through it all as well.