Yesterday we had storm clouds over our valley, but about 7km north of our place. There was a cloudburst up that way, and some lightning, with thunder of course. A neighbor with a better view toward that saw lightning hit a conifer tree part-way up a ravine there, and the tree 'candled'. This morning there was a report of a wildfire there. Not terribly large yet, but we hope it doesn't grow much before water bombers can douse it.The rains the other day, flooded low-lying areas, and took out hydro power in some neighbourhoods. We were fortunate it didn't affect us, though we had to take a different route to pick up our daughter earlier today.
"Oh you poor girl, and here's me, sitting here in my underpants swigging the last of my lovely tipple, I'll have to keep the bedroom windows open tonight, it's so warm..... hmmm, I may just have another little sniffter of that super single malt."