Time Out for a Storm

I wanted to just pause from the Thailand stuff for a moment to mention this storm that hit last night. It was just a thunderstorm, but it was perhaps the worst one I've ever witnesses in person. It lasted for hours and hours. I stood out in it for a bit and it only took about five minutes for me to be soaked through. The lightning was so bright that it lit up my room even through closed blinds. I took some video of it for you. It can hardly convey the actual experience, but you can let your imagination help out.

I wouldn't have thought that the storm could do any real damage, unless lightning hit something, but one of my students said a college student drowned last night because she was swept away by one of the rivers the rain formed. I'm a little skeptical of that story, and I wasn't able to find anything about it in a cursory google search, so maybe he got some false information. Or he's a LIAR.

In any case, today the day started off with a bright sun and almost no puddles. You'd never know.