A perfectly phantasmagorical thunderstorm, unpredicted and unexpected. The whole house lit up by continuous, strobe-like lightning, brighter and brighter, with a slowly increasing, steady rumble, like a heavy freight train coming at you.
I unplugged the computer.
But then the rumble faded and the pulsing diminished.
Only to come back an hour later, this time with wind and rain. Quite a bit of rain, I think.
And so a light-show broke the drought.