I love a rainy night

Two times in the last week we have had some pretty major storms come through. The first night I pretty much slept through them and besides some tipped over trash cans there was no real obvious damage that I could see, a few trees were down which is kind of crazy because they were literally uprooted but all things considered it didn't seem to bad. I heard later that there were thousands of homes with out power, but it didn't effect me so I carried on my merry way.
Then Monday night the storms came again and I woke up this time! It was like there was an intergalactic war happening right over my house. The windows were shaking, the thunder was rolling and the rain was pounding...and wowzer if there wasn't an amazing light show going on as well...I put clothes on and clutched my cell phone and prayed that the sky wouldn't fall...I turned on the news and the newscaster was saying things about semi-drivers like "oh man! what an idiot! what a bonehead! I can't believe these people"...I have never heard a newscaster call someone a bonehead on live tv before...it made me laugh...after things calmed down finally, I pulled my camera out and tried out some of the night settings...they didn't really turn out very good but it was interesting anyways.
So today I drove around a bit to see what sort of damage had happened...my neighborhood was just fine but around my church...there are piles of branches and tree trunks everywhere. The landscape of this town is forever changed. I took a couple pics...crazy. There are plenty of trees that still need to be taken down before they cause even more damage and as far as I know there are still thousands with out power...

I feel like there are all kinds of analogies that could be written about comparing these storms to the storms that life brings our way...or to those in our lives...but I need to get back to work...

check out a few of my pics...