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11/12/2003 Archived Entry: "stormin'"

My, my, what a storm we had! First it was raining. Then we were hearing some thunder in the distance so Tabitha and I bundled up and went out to watch for the lightening. We were surrounded on 3 sides by it. It was the real cool kind where the lightening snakes down to the Earth. After we had seen enough and were really kind of cold, we went inside. Within a few minutes the lightening was coming one right after eachother and with every very LOUD thunder roll the lights and my monitor would flicker. Finally, all the electricity went out all together. It was around 4:30 at this point and we were okay with daylight coming in the windows. The lightening and thunder were still going strong and then the rain picked up it's tempo. It was pouring so hard that both my front and back yards were flooded within minutes. I've never seen rain pour off my roof quite like it did this afternoon. A couple minutes later it was hailing. Tabitha went back outside so she could touch it and see what it was since she had never seen it before. I distinctly remember her napping the last time it hailed a few years ago. The hailing stopped after 10 minutes and the rain then let up but the thunder and lightening just weren't giving up. By this time it was too dim to really see anything so we got out the candles. We had some sandwiches by candlelight then I got out our portable DVD player. Thankfully the battery was charged so we sat on the couch and put the player on the coffee table and started watching "The Little Mermaid." The power finally came on around 6:30, 2 hours after it went out. Right when it came back on, the thunder and lightening starting going super strong again, but the lights never even flickered at that point. We finished watching our movie on the regular TV with Tabitha dressed up as Ariel. The rest of the evening has been uneventful :)