stormy weather

ok, so technically this is two weeks old, but i never finished typing it up to post it. so here it is now.

we've had some funky weather lately, 2 fridays ago, there was a nasty storm headed our way, specifically, my house. they let me leave work early so that i could make it home before the storm. that didn't work out as well as planned, but i was home before the really bad stuff hit.

here's my veiw driving down the beltway. this is at 4pm. and no, i didn't do a thing in photoshop. the sky was green!

and then it did it again on saturday! i was playing online and brandt was on the phone when we had this one crash of lightning and thunder, simultaneously. brandt even made a joke to his friend that he thought our driveway got struck by lightning.

then we started hearing firetrucks and all sorts of commotion. turns out he wasn't that far off, the house across the street got hit! the lightning hit a tree and bounced down to the house below, hitting the back of it, but somehow blowing out the bricks in the front!

fortunatly, no one lives there right now. so no one was hurt. unfortunatly, that meant the firefighters had to break down the door to get in (there was smoke coming out)

and nothing draws a neighborhood together quite like drama, so of course i was out there with my fellow neighbors watching the action. and in the process got to meet some other people that we've been meaning to introduce ourselves to. (they are the only people on the street our age, and they just had a baby! so we are glad to have finally met them!)