Oh yes! The lightning last night was absolutely spectacular. Unfortunately, the storm skirted round to the west of us and didn't pass right overhead, probably 10 miles away was the closest it got.
I say unfortunately because I love thunderstorms. When I was very small, no more than a toddler, I used to be frit of 'em, but my Dad used to stand at the bedroom window with me looking out to watch the whole storm. I've done exactly the same thing ever since and with my own kids too.
Most spectacular storm I've EVER seen was about 20 years ago when me and my brother were driving back from Grenoble overnight. Whether we were in one huge storm or just bouncing between several I have no idea, but we were in it for 8 hours with huge lightning strikes, the closest one hitting the road literally 50 yards ahead. Rain was coming down in stair rods. Of course, a car is one of the safest places to be in lightning, but we were slowed to about 40mph on an autoroute simply because the wipers couldn't cope. Since it was the early hours of the morning there was virtually nothing on the roads, so you can probably imagine how surprised we were when, in the middle of all this, about 20 German bikers shot by at about 80 mph
01-Sep-2005, 09:18 
Jools
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