Thunderstorm

We had a crazy thunderstorm last week--the thunder was so loud it was rattling the dishes in the cabinets. These pictures are taken from our apartment windows. Fortunately, we didn't have to go anywhere, and we just stayed inside watching movies and drinking hot toddies. It stormed hard for about 3 hours, than rained the rest of the night. It seemed very intense, but later we found out it was just the edge of a bigger storm that caused wind damage throughout Mississippi and briefly flooded parts of uptown New Orleans. (It looks like there's a house on fire in the last picture, but there wasn't, I promise. It's just light-smear from the slow exposure I was using.)