last year coming home from a faire I was driving into the teeth of a storm so big the white clouds were swirling and we watched miles ahead of us an all out electrical parade of bolts and light flashes as wide as cars and as we continued heading into it we realized we were no match for its power as cars were pulled over to the side, I just kept on barreling through it and one bolt as big as a bus cracked down on the freeway between us and the sloping green belt to the side and lit the entire area and I swear it was like (and so loud) being in the middle of an atomic explosion. The radio went off and the lights flickerd and away and gone we got through. Really scary though glad we were spared the grief of any emergency services.