Thunderstorm

We had the mother of all thunderstorms last week. It was a Monday evening and the electricity went off at about 6 pm after the most terrific clap of thunder with lightening a split second before. We had no electricity until 1 pm and no telephone until the next afternoon. I found out that lightening had struck a telegraph pole putting the phones out of action. Lightening also struck the surgery next door and was conducted along a metal fence narrowly missing a health visitor. A neighbour went out to the main road in the middle of it and could not see the road. Water was up to the windows of a car stuck on the bend going into Fryston. There was a mini tornado reported 1 mile away and there was photo of this in the local paper. I have never seen such heavy rain and hail. Wow.