Glad your back is feeling better! Did you get the large hail balls, too?
Love a lightning show except when I'm driving. We were on patrol one night during a bad storm looking for and dodging down trees. All of a sudden my partner, who was driving start screaming, hits the breaks, waving his hands in the air. I'm thinking a tree is falling us but I don't see anything. So I start screaming "What is it !!!" My partner, who is a veteran cop with a very profanity laden mouths, screams back..."a spider was on me!"
. Could a shot him....
I love watching a lightning storm in the mountains!
I bet you guys have neat storm shows! Probably not as often as we do. About the Russians, my wife has me on lockdown for the same reason. We did find a great house, dog, and chicken sitter though.