While we have been here in Interlochen we have had many rain and thunder storms. Last night was a doozey! It kept us awake for several hours and frequently seemed to be directly overhead. At first the lightening and thunder was quite far away but HW2 got up and closed all the windows in preparation. You can count the seconds between seeing the lightening and then hearing the thunder to figure out how far away the storm might be. It quickly became apparent that this storm was right over head. One clap was so close to us that I literally jumped. After at least two hours of pyrotechnics we finally got back asleep and so went the night. We figured that Kim had two boys and two dogs in her bed for most of the night too.
This storm reminded me of Aunt Helen. She and her husband Everett and his brother Orange (How would you like to be called Orange?) were having dinner one evening at their farmhouse when a thunder storm came up and suddenly lightening hit a corner of the roof on their house. The thunder was so loud that they all jumped up and ran out to see if the roof was on fire. Luckily it was not. Then they realised that they could not hear one another talk. Lips were moving but no sound was getting through to the listeners. That loud thunder clap deafened them all for several hours. When we came by for a short visit several days later, we got to hear the story and see the damaged roof. In Aunt Helen's later years, she was quite deaf and her hearing aid did little to remedy the situation. I always wondered if the thunder and lightening incident had anything to do with her later deafness.
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