Lightning - it is pretty if you look at the pictures. Lightning is frightening if you see it's furious face up close especially if you hear a loud thunder followed by it.
Yesterday, bunch of our friends met in a common friend's house to plan for their daughter's upcoming arangetram. Pot luck dinner and good time with friends. We were all having fun. Planning for the arangetram is similar to planning for wedding (in India they compare conducting a wedding to building a house). Lot of tasks. lot of work. But it also becomes lots of fun when you get together with your friends and share the tasks.
Around 11 pm, we heard a big thunder followed by a bright light. We were not sure if it is lightning or somehting else. We saw a bright light through the shutters of the window. It looked wide and seem to be lasting little longer than a typical lightning. We all came up with different theories - may be somebody is celebrating with fire crackers, may be a transformer got hit by the lightning etc. We went to their deck but could not see anything. There was no power outage in the neighboring area. Turning on TV we found out that there is a severe thunderstorm warning in our area till 4 am. So we all decided to leave and go home before weather gets bad.
Today our friend called and solved the mystery of the bang we heard yesterday. The tree in his neighbor's property which is closer to his fence (about 20 feet from the place we were sitting in his house) got hit by the lightning yesterday night. It just burnt but fortunately, the rain prevented the fire from spreading to the neighboring trees. I have not experienced the thunder and lightning that close before.
Really God has been watching all of us. It could have been worse. I can not thank God enough for sparing all of us yesterday.
Yesterday, bunch of our friends met in a common friend's house to plan for their daughter's upcoming arangetram. Pot luck dinner and good time with friends. We were all having fun. Planning for the arangetram is similar to planning for wedding (in India they compare conducting a wedding to building a house). Lot of tasks. lot of work. But it also becomes lots of fun when you get together with your friends and share the tasks.
Around 11 pm, we heard a big thunder followed by a bright light. We were not sure if it is lightning or somehting else. We saw a bright light through the shutters of the window. It looked wide and seem to be lasting little longer than a typical lightning. We all came up with different theories - may be somebody is celebrating with fire crackers, may be a transformer got hit by the lightning etc. We went to their deck but could not see anything. There was no power outage in the neighboring area. Turning on TV we found out that there is a severe thunderstorm warning in our area till 4 am. So we all decided to leave and go home before weather gets bad.
Today our friend called and solved the mystery of the bang we heard yesterday. The tree in his neighbor's property which is closer to his fence (about 20 feet from the place we were sitting in his house) got hit by the lightning yesterday night. It just burnt but fortunately, the rain prevented the fire from spreading to the neighboring trees. I have not experienced the thunder and lightning that close before.
Really God has been watching all of us. It could have been worse. I can not thank God enough for sparing all of us yesterday.
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