I woke before the alarm went off this morning. I am not sure why. It might have been an encroaching electric storm. I could not go back to sleep, so I got up. I thought I saw some flashes, and checked the windows: no emergency vehicles near by. It was lightning. I did not hear thunder for some time. I decided to take a shower, although I know the risk of being struck by lightning if someone is near plumbing, since it conducts electricity, during an electric storm. After the shower, the storm moved in closer, and was even over head at one point, judged by the lack of time between the lightning and thunder. The lights blinked three times, once long enought that I had to reset the microwave clock. The other clocks have batter back ups that help when there is a brief outage.
Tonight I checked the rain gauge. There was 3/4 inch in the gauge. That is good. We may get some more tonight or this weekend. That, too is good.
I do not want strong, damaging storms. But the rain is important for us, for the farmers, for the resevoirs. The kind of thunder storm we had today is the kind we want.
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