Last night we were all hanging out at home. There was a thunderstorm. Some of us were upstairs, some down stairs. Lightning struck, out front I think, and it made a huge ‘crack’ or ‘snap’ sound. In fact – the sound I’ve heard when smaller stuff arced – but much louder. The kids screamed – I went around and checked that everything was o.k. The GFI was triggered on an outlet in back but I have no idea if it was related. Pretty crazy. Apparently the Orlando area had 5,000 lightning strikes in a single hour during the storm. 3,000 the hour after that. Wow. That is the closest I’ve ever been to a lightning strike in my life.
