I just got back to town after a three day visit to go see my dad and my sister. Both are dying of cancer, and both within the next six months to a year. Either way, the night before we left Lubbock to go to central Texas for the visit we had an extremely severe thunderstorm come in. It was tornado warned on two difference occasions, and I was able to photograph the storm around 10:30 PM during the first tornado warning. There was never a touch down but the storm structure was incredible.
After the storm cycled down the first time the lightning got pretty intense. I managed to get out ahead of it long enough to get this lightning picture. It hit about a mile and a half north of my location and the report from the lightning convinced me it was probably a good time to leave.