When it rains, it pours!

At some time in the middle of the night, I was woken up by this *noise*.  What the heck?  It took me a moment to realize it was rain!  Now, obviously, we are no strangers to rain around here, but I have never been woken up by it before.  However, this was no typical rainy night.  It was downright POURING!  It sounded like someone was power washing our roof!  And then, even though our blinds were closed, the room would light up with the lightening and even though the lightening was several miles away, it felt like the house was shaking from the thunder.  I was worried it would all wake up Rori, but thankfully it didn't.  It did wake up Ryan though.  Too bad it all happened so late (or was it early?) because it would have been an awesome storm to watch.