Of course I was asleep by the time the rain started. But I got to steal a moment from the other end at 1:00 a.m. A few diehard people were still shooting fireworks at that hour. Even though my jaw was still sore from the pry bar on Wednesday, I stood out on the landing and watched the lightning continuously light up the sky. By 2:00 a.m. the thunder rolled in with another crescendo of rain and gave me canopy lighting, as if the sky were a strobe light. The temperature dropped to 69° as the cool air hit me.

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