Lightening

Yesterday, J and I were listening to the storm as we could see flashes of lightening through our window shades and crashing of thunder rumbling our home....I opened the blinds to our patio and watched the storm for a little bit really wondering if I should have purchased that extra flood insurance....I wanted to watch some more or even go outside to just to be out in the rain, but something told me to close the blinds and move away from the window and stay inside....

I closed the blinds and went and sat in the living room with J....we talked about the storm and "counted" between the flashes and crashes....which were now, almost on top of each other when all of a sudden, there was a very bright flash of light, a very loud and huge crash and then debris hitting our door....I was really scared....

J opened the door to investigate and all we could smell was burnt wood and pieces of the tree in our courtyard around our door step and patio...

Lucky it was still raining very heavily so the tree did not stay on fire but we could see and smell that it was struck by lightening...as I was still scared, I rushed J back into the house....

Today, I took a this picture of the tree as I went to work.....Just glad that I listened to the small voice that told me to close the blinds, move away from the window and stay inside...