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that, Ladies and Gentlemen, was a full-scale, classic, crack-and-boom Midwestern Thunderstorm! The heart of it crawled over the city and has now drifted south over Lake Michigan. At least four strikes within a block of my place! And maybe more still to come....

The one the other night had an almost continuous occurrence of lightning going on in the heart of it: I had never seen anything like it. It wasn't like the electrical storms you get occasionally with lightning coming down everywhere: those are crazy dangerous. This was more like a constant, almost strobe-like flashing of light up in the center of the storm in the clouds, not a constant ground-to-sky lightning (although there was plenty and to spare of that).