Blitzkrieg

So I now have a new meaning for Blitzkrieg. If you don't remember from your history classes, Blitzkrieg was used by Germans in World War II as a form of battle. Literally it means lightning war. Well last night I saw a Blitzkrieg. There was a thunderstorm last night that I didn't know if we were going to make it through the night. I actually have not experienced such loud thunder. The lightning was so bright and seemed to be right outside our window. We are on the second floor of the house so we had front row seats to the thunder roar. I actually woke up to thunder. It was seriously the loudest thunder I have heard in my life. When I woke up from it, my heart rate increased as if I had just ran up the stairs. It continued for about 30 minutes with this loud thunder.

You know how people say, when you see lightning count the seconds until the thunder and you'll know how far away it was. Well, last night I saw lightning then BOOM I heard thunder. No seconds in between. It was quite exhilarating. This was a Blitzkrieg in the sky! Rain was pouring down really hard as well. It was a crazy 30 minutes. Let's just say that I had a hard time sleeping the rest of the night. I wanted to take a picture but my camera was dead. I found one online though of a Swiss lightning storm, just for imagination purposes.