What rain in the night! The raindrops must have been a half inch apart and hurled at the ground with such velocity! And I haven’t heard thunder, or seen lightning like that since living in the midwest 40 years ago. I had my “tapparelle” – shutters – down, but my windows open so the freshening air rushed through the slats briskly.
My courtyard plants got their thirst quenched, but this morning my neighbor’s hydrangeas seem a bit battered from the pummeling. That was quite a storm.