Rude Awakening

Last night my wife and I were sleeping peacefully when we were suddenly awaken.  My mind immediately flashed back several years to another shocking moment.  My previous experience had come as I was helping my dad work on old blue.  We had the front tire off and were attempting to redesign a part of the front end with the use of primitive tool (we were beating on it with a hammer-just wanted to feel smart).  I was sitting on the floor with my legs underneath the vehicle when there was a deafening bang, which of course scared the daylights out of me.  All I could think was that the pickup had fallen off the blocks and onto my legs, but when I looked down, my legs were fine and the pickup was still on blocks.  Lightning had struck a tree just outside of the shop.  This memory flashed through my mind last night as we were awaken by lightning striking which seemed to be knocking on the door of our house.  The light from the lightning was still illuminating the room when we opened our eyes from the sound of the thunder.  I didn't get up to check on things in the house, it was after all, 3:00 in the morning and I was scared to leave the bed.  Moments later, an even louder crack of thunder shook our nerves.  This time I was sure it was right on top of us.  I managed to pretend not to be too frightened and got out of bed to check on things.  Partly to check on things and partly because my heart was beating a mile a minute and walking around could ease my nerves.  I felt like a nervous dog that wanted to just hide under the bed.  I did a quick survey of the house to make sure there were no fires or trees about to fall on the house (it's dark outside that early in the morning so I don't know that I was the best judge of the tree sitution).  I took a few minutes to unplug all/most of the electronic devises before I returned to bed to wait for the next big bang.  There were no more major strikes as near to us as the two described here and eventually we faded back into neverland.  This morning when I had a few more wits about me I did a better job of surveying the results.  I was a little drowsy most of the morning, I'm guessing I may not have slept well last night.