Bit of a scare

[tonks_op]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
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> 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. >

Tonks:
You know you have been reading/watching/listening to too much Harry Potter when the first thought that comes to you when reading this is "what kind of a spell makes a red light?".

Glad that everyone is alright. It was good that you were there and able to call the fire department.

I was in a car once, many years ago that was hit by lightening as we were going down the road. Thank God I wasn't driving. I just remember a big flash of white light and I was screaming "I can't see, I can't see". Somehow my husband kept the car on the road and calmed me down. I don't think he could see either. I know some will say "well THAT explains what is wrong with you!". lol.

I know a woman who was trying to "cast off a storm", whatever that means, and lightening hit her neighbors tree spliting it in half and it fell on the casting person's house. That was a spell gone bad for sure. And she is a Christian, so I don't know what she thought she was doing. 

Tonks_op