Disco in the sky

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We watched the most amazing thunderstorm tear itself across the sky last night. It was like someone had installed a disco strobe light high up in the atmosphere - the entire sky flickered and lit up constantly with varying intensities of brightness, sometimes lancing a brilliantly clear fork of lightening before thunder deafened us seconds later. It didn’t just grumble, but did that whipcrack of sound that happens when a storm is right on top of you.

I took a video of the sky flickering away with light, but haven’t watched it yet - I’m wondering whether there’ll be any decent bits where I can extract a still shot of the storm. (Actually, I’m not altogether sure whether I can extract still shots from video.)

I woke up this morning to more lightening and thunder, which was an odd way to begin the day. Storms here are very much the province of the evening, and it seems out of place of be woken up by thunder, and head off the work in the pouring rain. “Maybe we’ll be flooded in,” said the Prince hopefully, recalling the “Road Prone to Flooding” signs that dot the road we must take towards the main highway. Alas, it was not the case. However, happily the rain has meant that our tanks (our only source of water) are overflowing, and the paltry level of our dams has risen noticeably - that should make the local population of wild ducks happy.

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