Amazing Lightning Storm!

I LOVE thunder & lightning storms. I think they are just beautiful... there's something about the sheer magnitude of mother nature's power that absolutely amazes me, and I love watching it play out. Thursday night we had an incredible show! It was the biggest lightning storm I had ever seen in my life, and we got a front-row view from our house on the hill over looking the Tri-Cities! (Lucky us!)

My recuperating mother managed to get out of bed and drive up to our house (bless her heart) to watch the storm. My mom and I sat in her Tahoe watching the lightning storm blow over the Tri-Cities and "oooohhhhed and ahhhhhhed and WHOA!-ed" for about an hour. We actually got to see the lightning touch ground a couple of times. It was amazing - I had never seen that before! There was a huge bolt of lightning that struck in Pasco (around the Road 68 area), and I actually got to see the ball of fire it created when hitting the ground! It was so crazy, I couldn't believe what I had just seen and couldn't stop talking about it. Seriously - that was the most amazing sight! The next morning I saw on the news that it was a Haystack that had caught fire, and that they had reports of Kennewick residents being witness to the lightning strike (So I guess I wasn't the only one!).

In all, it was an amazing show and I just wanted to share these pictures with those of you who didn't get to see it. Enjoy!!!

I tried to take pictures with my camera, but they (of course) didn't turn out too well... so I am borrowing these pictures of the storm from someone else. =o)