So, mother nature turned up and made sure I would remember what midwestern thunderstorms were like ... this morning around 2am-5am a thunderstorm the size of the state of Michigan passed overhead and lightning strobed all over (a student of mine had a direct strike on her building, which causes sparks to fly out of her power-sockets, which she was up to see because she was trying to stop flashing flooding of her garden apartment).

Then around 11am this morning another thunderstorm struck, this time a smaller, but insanely more intense one, focused on my neighbourhood. I think the technical term is 'microburst' ... having hail, rain so heavy you can't see anything but the trees outside your apartment, trees that LITERALLY went sideways with an INCREDIBLE burst of hurricane-force winds, and naturally bucketloads of thunder and lightning. And there's another one apparently about to arrive in the next hour.

But anyway, here are some pics from the damage from this morning's microburst









Okay, going home now from Starbucks before the next insanity ...