Last night, about eight o'clock it started raining heavily, very heavily. In fact we thought it was never going to stop. It was so heavy we thought it was hailstones, but no, just rain, lots of it; oh, and wind too. Then, for no apparent reason there is a huge bang ourtside the house accompanied by a very bright flash. This was at eye level, not absorbing the clouds, menacingly moving across the sky like a maurauding army as thunder and lightning usually does, it was most odd. The thunder sounded like a mortar bomb it was that loud, a huge, cracking, ear splitting bang. Yes it could have been a firework or a car backfiring, or even (Heaven forbid) a gun going off but, and here's the thing, there was no after effect like you'd get with a gun (no spent cartridge), firework (no casing or residue), and no car outside.
We concluded it was a single, solitary burst of lightning and thunder. A thunder & lightning hybrid child having a singular tantrum because it's older siblings wouldn't come out and play. In fact, it's just as odd as the thunderstorm we had in the snow in January here. I have never seen a thunderstorm happen in the middle of a snowstorm but it happened, I think that January's thunder and lightning had given up waiting for the snow to turn into rain that it decided 'to hell with it' and just jumped right in there.
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