I’m thanking God that I’m home from work now.  I hate lightning.  I hate it, I hate it, I hate it.  I always have and probably always will.  I love thunderstorms, but would love them so much more if they didn’t come along with lightning.  When I was little, I remember curling up in bed during a thunderstorm and just praying and praying that our house wouldn’t get hit by it.

Even more than just lightning, I hate driving during strong lightning storms.  Of course the blinding rain and hydroplaning didn’t make my drive home tonight any more fun, but it was the lightning show going on around me that struck terror in my heart.  I felt like I was playing dodgeball with God, only he was cheating by using a taser instead of a ball.  One burst struck so close to the highway that I saw a rerun of it every time I blinked for the next several miles.

At work we have a great view of the KC skyline from our office.  At one point, while watching the hail come down, we started seeing huge gusts of black smoke zooming towards the sky.  It appears that my fear of lightning isn’t so unfounded.  I wonder what this is going to do to our gas prices? 

Apparently I’m relatively safe while in my car  during a lightning storm.  At least according to “those zany Germans.”  This video is also reassuring.