It's 3 a.m. , what's that noise?

Sometimes it got as bright as day.

This is true color. It looked like daytime.

Okay, so it was just a Tuesday.

"What's a Tuesday?" asked Pooh.

"It just is".

On Tuesday evening we went to bed, as any normal family would do. At 3 am, a huge crashing sound rumbled through the house, waking me, and seeming to shake the bed. My first thought was Earthquake, but that was quickly replaced with "What did the cat do now?".

I stumbled into the living room, to find our 19 yr old son... "Did you hear that?", and then out came my husband, and we all looked out the back door. Yep, there seemed to be lightning in the distance. We know what that means. Around here, usually absolutely nothing, so we went back to bed.

I was just about to drift off again, and another, closer, huge slamming thunder shook the house. I hesitated there, thinking I was going to get up and see again, if a storm was coming here.

The bedroom door opens, and in comes our 13 yr. old daughter, she is grasping the CareBear that has lay on her bed since she was 5, she says "What is that?" yes, even though we live in the valley of the monsoon, we so rarely get a storm over our house that she didn't recognize what my father used to call the Kracken. When the huge slamming cracking thunder comes nearly instantainiously as the lightning.

We got up, our son was back out in the livng room, getting his shoes on. Our other daughter appeared, she was "is that thunder?". So what do we do? We all go outside. It was the coolest, biggest storm I have seen in 10 yrs. At least directly over our house. It was one right after another, lightning, thunder, lightning thunder.

No one was ever in danger (well, any more danger, then you would be if in a storm and lightning randomly hit your house). It didn't last long, but it was intense. By 3:43 the streets were flooded, but the lightning and thunder was basically gone.

I am posting pictures of some of the lightning, and have just one short video up, the roaring is the rain, and there is one lighting strike in it. I will have more later. The color on these pictures is how it was. It was the middle of the night, yet lit up enough to turn off the "dusk to dawn" street lights.

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