I've Never Seen Anything Like It!

Last night we experienced a lightening (Monsoon) storm like I've never seen! In addition to the normal lightening bolts, our sky was like a strobe light. It wouldn't stop flickering, keeping the sky totally lit up, almost as if it was shaking. The electric storm hit near 9PM while we were driving home from dinner and Jon even commented that we didn't need our headlights. We gave it a try, he was right. Little did we know that we were in a category 1 hurricane and the eye of the storm seemed to be right with us. The winds weren’t horrible but the sound of the thunder at times was deafening and lasted up to 1AM.

Although Jon was right about not needing headlights, he was wrong with one thing. Right before entering our neighborhood he commented, “It doesn’t seem like the lightening is hitting ground”. Five minutes later, once we were in our home safely, the sirens of fire trucks got louder. One by one, at least eight emergency crews passed our home, causing our kids, especially Baylee, total distress and curiosity on our part. Jon and I had to see what was going on! I went first with the boys who were pleading and by that point; the rain was coming down like I’ve never seen. It was as if the whole Pacific Ocean was emptied right over our heads. There weren’t raindrops at all, just huge amounts of rain plummeting the ground, seriously! I followed the flashing lights and saw quite a commotion. A one-story home, right behind us was hit by lightening! I guess because of the heavy rain though, there wasn’t a flaming fire too. Amazing! God sure had all of our attention on his amazing power. Once I got home, Jon went out not able to get to the home any longer. Police and news crews were on site and blocking any more curious neighbors.

It was a very late night. The kids had to wait until the storm was gone until they felt safe, knowing our two- story home and others were not going to be struck. We had many blessings to talk about and lessons on God’s will until we were able to rest, with flashlights in hand.

(Thank God Jon was home from his business trip!)