Oh. My. Gosh.

The craziest thing happened to me tonight while I was driving to Burley for Jr. Miss practice. My friend Amber was in the passenger seat and Kate and Amber's daughter, Sadie were in the back seat. The weather turned nasty all of a sudden and a microburst blew through. We just happened to be on the highway between Rupert and Heyburn as it passed over us. The wind was blowing SO hard and giants sheets of rain completely obscured the road. We were kind of floating back and forth on these massive waves of water. It felt so strange. Then the lightening started -- GIANT, bright, and CLOSE. About 50 feet to the side of the highway we saw a huge flash of light, then the power pole to the side of us fell down over the train tracks! That started a little domino effect as 3 or 4 more power poles came down one after the other. Each topple was followed by a big splash of sparks and fire. It was so surreal that I couldn't do anything except say "Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh" every time another pole came down. I didn't even think about slowing down in case the poles kept falling and eventually crashed down on the road! I am ridiculous in an emergency. It honestly took me over a half an hour to process how weird and dangerous the whole situation was. Thankfully we're all safe and sound -- and one exciting story richer!