Bit of a scare

[justcarol67]

I got a bit of a scare last night. I happened to be watching a thunderstorm out the living room window, enjoying the downpour after a very disappointing monsoon season, when lightning struck a palm tree about a hundred yards from my apartment! I heard a loud boom and saw a huge red flash as the tree ignited. I called 911 because the tree was close to several apartments and a row of parked cars, and the fire department put out the fire. Fortunately, the flaming debris (burning tree bark) didn't do any damage, probably because the grass it landed on was soaked from the rain, but what a scary spectacle! To top everything off, the electricity went out this morning in the whole complex for an hour and a half. Don't know whether it had anything to do with the storm or not. Everything's fine now, thank goodness.

Carol, hoping for a dull, ordinary Labor Day weekend