Tropical Storm Excitement!

This weekend, we had the first proper tropical storm since I moved here, Tropical Storm Lee. It rained harder than I ever imagined possible. A lot of low-lying suburbs and rural areas flooded, though mostly a non-life-threatening 2-4 feet. And in front of our house,  on Saturday morning, this happened:

That is a telephone/power pole that was struck by lightning around 7am, and crashed down, taking a bunch of power lines with it, which were live for about two hours. The Entergy guys (that's like PG&E here) fixed it impressively fast--there's only one picture because I didn't want to get in their way. There's an old folks home across the street that also lost power, so we got to piggyback on their "special priority" status. The storm moved up north on Sunday evening, and yesterday and today have been gorgeous.