:P I had just been feeding someone's pets that I'm looking after and I was on my way back into town to get petrol. I was waiting at an intersection in peak hour traffic, it's been hot and humid today and there was a storm building (typical summer) but didn't look likely to hit for at least another 1/2hr-1hr. All of a sudden there was this huge flash of lightning and I mean huge, it got me a little worried and I was looking around to see if it had hit anything coz I thought it had :?

Then I noticed the traffic lights were out for only 2secs then came back on but were flashing orange. I thought oh great, I'm going to be here for ages. I've been through that intersection when the power was out and it's chaos everyone trying to get themselves through it safely.

Then there was the thunder and it was really loud and my whole car was shaking/vibrating from it :? It was freaky but what was weirder was it didn't stop. It quietened down a bit but the thunder kept going and going. At first I thought it was just the huge semi behind me but soon realised it wasn't. I'm thinking "crap get me outta here!" I don't know what I thought was going to happen (I was preparing for another lightning strike just like that one even though that was highly unlikely :P) but I just wanted to get moving and get away from there. I looked around again and noticed the lights were working properly again - they were back to red.

After that I went straight home (I'll get petrol later :P) I was shaking coz I've never been through anything like that (actually I have, worse but I was a baby and I have no recollection :P) When I got home my dad asked me if I heard the thunder so then I told him what happened and he said the thunder had the house shaking too :? Also the initial thunder clap scared our cats but when it kept going they ran off and hid which I'm pretty sure I've never seen them do during a storm.

You'd never know it had happened now, storm clouds are still hovering above but it's still hot which is fine with me :P They say you're fairly safe in a car during a storm or something but that was no comfort to me :P I would've felt better about it if I wasn't stuck in my car not able to go anywhere. I'm just glad I wasn't filling my car at the time (I might have been if I didn't stop to get a TV Week mag :P) Petrol and electricity...That would've freaked me out :P

Anyway, that was the excitement for my afternoon :lol:

:)