storms storms storms

The weather here changes quickly and the last few days there have been some crazy thunder and lightning storms.  Probably the most intense I've ever been in.  Almost every flash of lightning you notice has a bolt that looks like it made it to the ground.  I'm assuming its the cold air from the nothern mountains meeting the warm air coming from Italy and it all settles around the Lake.  It is also cool to watch the little mountain stream outside my house turn into a raging brown river like in news footage of flash floods.

I just had to take a break from writing this because my coworker and I had to run to the window and take out the fan because .45 or so inch hail was coming in.