Steven Helmer Publications

We ended up getting a somewhat nasty storm during the night last night (lots of lightning and rain) but, fortunately, didn't suffer any damage as a result of it. I was able to capture a video of the lightning as the storm approached. Sorry about the voices in the background. Someone was apparently throwing a party up the street from me and, even though they were a block away, they were loud to the point it sounded like they were standing right next to me.

I had to run some errands before coming into the office this morning and barely made it back to my car before it started to downpour outside. We are under a flash flood watch pretty much all day today because they are expecting periods of intense rain. I believe it. I could barely see the road when driving to the office after running my errands.

It went through about 10:30, starting first with the usual thunder and lightning but, eventually, that wind picked up to the point it sounded like all Hell was breaking loose outside. The way our trees were swaying out front, I thought one (or both) were going to end up breaking in half and ended up watching out the windows out of fear of our cars or house getting damaged. Fortunately, as it turns out, the worst damage we ended up having last night was a few branches on our sidewalk (a picture of the pile is above). It looks like some of my neighbors also lost some tree limbs but I don't see any damage to any of the houses/cars on the street. I'm not sure if that was the case everywhere, however, because I did hear plenty of sirens during and after the storm.