Coming home from work tonight I saw lightning strike not too far in the distance. A few minutes later, I drove past this:
A few miles later I turned onto the road to my house. This is about ten miles from us. It was blowing up before my eyes, gained about a quarter mile in the time it took me to drive past. The storm started at least two fires according to our local facebook group. The storm is still howling with high winds and lots of lightning and almost no rain. Could be a long night...