crash boom

[threeplusfire]

There was this tremendous sound, like an explosion. All the lights went off, plunging the house into darkness. Everything was spectral and ghostly in the next burst of lightning. All the power crashed, the cable went dead and I was sitting here frozen at my desk in complete blackness. Suddenly there was the rapid fire crack of hailstones slamming into the patio doors, and I nearly shrieked. It was more than a little unnerving. I managed to fumble around and find my cell phone, and using the screen light found my purse. More stumbling around found the cigarettes and candles. The power has finally come back on, along with the cable. Lots of purple and red on the radar. I think I'm going to just go curl up in bed.

It was really, really damned dark. All the street lights crashed out too.