[rouxroux]

Had some close calls, the most recent yesterday. I was in the garage doing some work, and lightning hit 2 pear trees about 75 yards across the street. Everything was bright orange, the air concussion was amazing, my right ear felt like I had just got water in my ear. We walked over to look at the trees about 30 minutes later to look at the bark that was stripped off and the soil around the base of the trees was blown out like a small bomb exploded.