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I love thinderstorms. We had lots of them when I was growing up in southern Minnesota. Now, living near Tucson I get to see some dandies. During the monsoon season we get some world class storms and it so happens that we are at the height of monsoon season right now.

Last night I got home as quickly as possible after work hoping to squeeze in a 9 mile bike ride before supper. I could see storms off to the east so I decided to keep it closer to home. I was about a mile from the house when I could sense that the storm was about to hit so I turned around and boogied for home. That ride back was hairy as heck with cloud-to-cloud lightning right above me. I made it into the house just as the rain started in earnest and within a couple of minutes it was falling at a 45 degreee angle. It rained heavily for nearly half an hour and the street in front of my house was flowing like a muddy river. A few minutes after that it stopped and within minutes the roads were (mostly) dry and the only reminders of the storm was sand on the roads. Riding that mile back to the house was a bit scary, fortunately I had a tail-wind.