Awesome, in the old-fashioned sense

[from last night. Internet is back now.]

Just at sunset, the sky turned orange, and then the lightning started up.

Long count, crack of thunder.

Flash. Shorter count. Roll of thunder. Typical T-storm for this valley.

Flash. Six seconds. Thunder circling the sky for 20 seconds. So atypical for this valley that we have to go outside and see if it's really thunder, or a jet taking off.

Flash in the east. Flash in the south. Thunder like a car rolling slowly across the city with the bass cranked all the way up and no treble.

Rain like the Amazon, pouring straight down. Not a breath of wind.

avventura1234 and I finally just put chairs on the porch and enjoy it for half an hour. Storms close in and converge, one from the east and one from the south, and we're in a bowl of lightning.

Flash. My power goes out and comes back on. Flash. Boom. I frantically unplug my computer. Flash like daylight. My windows rattle.

There's a tingling in my head, a pressure behind my eyes, a built-in barometer that says, "low, low, LOW!"

The whole south sky lights up and the thunder follows it. I can hear the storm rolling away down the valley. (It's taken the internet with it, apparently. Sigh...)