We had a terrible storm last night. When my son and I and the girls went to bed, it was just a slight thunder and lightning. But a couple of hours, I woke up because of the very loud thunder. For 30 minutes, the lightning was right above us. There was no time gap at all between the lightning and the thunder. In fact, the thunder never stopped. It just sounded like one big one lasting 30 minutes. And a lot of the lightning sounded like it was right in our backyard. It sounded like a big tree splitting in half when it striked. It was horrible. The power flickered so many times (though we never lost it completely) that my husband just used his cell phone as an alarm for this morning. I'm glad Matthew didn't wake up at all or he would have been terrified.

After 30 minutes, it stopped. It seemed to be a fast moving storm, but then 2 hours later here it was again. For another half an hour there was a none stop thunder and the lightning was again right on top of us.