Lightning strikes

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I just read a news story about a family from near where I lived in Alberta who where struck by lightning. I won't talk about their tragedy as it is their right to grieve without us talking about them. I was wondering if you have ever been near a lightning strike? I was in Alberta it was later at night and my husband and I were standing in the kitchen getting ready to head to bed. There was a storm going on but we thought it had passed over us and was moving on, all of a sudden there was this big blue flash that lit up the whole town (small town only 400 people) and the thunder was almost at the same time. It was so loud, I have never heard anything that loud in my life. Both my husband and I jumped and then ran to our sons room. It was so loud and so bright we thought it was our house that had been hit. turns out it was the church a block away, my friend lives right next door to the church and her daughter saw the strike happen. I also saw a tornado before it touched down that same year. It was one of those kind of days, unless you live or have lived in a tornado inclined area you wouldn't understand what I mean. The clouds are thick and rolling and alive but the air was still and the heat was insane. A friend and I were standing outside talking when the temperature dropped very suddenly and we both looked up to see the funnel right over our heads. We grabbed the kids and ran to my basement were we stayed for a while. The tornado went right over our town and hit the next town over.