Zowie!

I had an interesting start to my day: my apartment building was hit by lightning this morning at 6am. Luckily there was no damage to the building, but the smoke alarm and fire department thought otherwise, as the alarm (which is louder than an air raid siren and is accompanied by flashing lights) went off immediatly and the fire engines showed up soon after. I think the electrical charge must have triggered the alarm, and while it was migraine-inducing, it's nice to know that I cannot possibly sleep through it should we have a real fire. Talk about dramatic, though: the crack of thunder, bright light and shudder of the building woke me instantly and honestly made me think an airplane had flew into our building. While I scrambled to throw on jeans and a sweater before I went outside, not many other people did, and the hail and rain was enough to drive people back under cover fairly quickly. What's strange is that while we've had some enormous storms over the summer, this one was relatively small in comparison, apart from the whole getting hit by lightning thing. I guess being the tallest building (complete with turrets) on one of the only hills in our city does help our chances substantially.