All through the night, the lightning cracked and lit up the bedroom as if it were daylight; the thunder shook the house and rattled the windows as the rain and hail beat against the shutters.
I couldn't get up and watch the England v South Africa World Cup cricket match on the TV as the electricty supply went off in the early hours.
When the power was eventually restored at 11:30am, I found that the TV & cooker had blown a circuit, so had the PC printer, the fridge freezer and other some items of electrical equipment that was plugged into the mains, so there was no way I was watching the cricket anyway.
Last night, it was more of the same, as the storm started at 12:45am with the power going off shortly afterwards at around 1am.
All this time, I could see the local electricity department trying to fix the blow-out, 400 metres down the road. There were a number of vehicles at the substation, trying to reconnect the power supply while the lightning cracked and the thunder roared around them, what a job.
At 6 in the morning, the burglar alarm went off as the backup battery power kicked in and woke us up, not that we had got much sleep anyway.
Finally at around 7am, the power came back on, and the burglat alarm went off again, hallelujah.
It is now later the same day and the thunder has been rumbling all day, currently I can hear it in the distance and it is coming our way.
For the third night running it looks like we are in for another tremendous light show out at sea.
According to my weather station we have had 52mm of rain so far this month, that’s in the last 2 days and it’s still bucketing it down, luckily we live on the top of a hill and not even a tsunami would get up here, well, I don't think it would.
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