Scariest storm ever.

Practice got cut short yesterday, due to a mega-threatening storm. We barely made if off the water as the lightning started dancing and the skies opened up. Since we'd planned on being there for a second late practice as well, we decided to go out to dinner and make a fun night of it. We sat inside while the rain continued.. and passed. A couple of drinks, amazing fried calamari, big plates of sumptious pasta, double espressos and much good conversation and laughter later.. we hit the road home. Just across the border we found ourselves barreling into the biggest, craziest lightshow we'd seen in a while. The lightning lit everything up better than a nightgame at a ballpark... the rain was torrential... the thunder just BOOMED. It was pretty scary at times. Then G's hubby calls. Tells us it's dangerous to drive in it. That we shouldn't use our phones. That we could basically die tonight. Grrreat. Pretty much exactly what we needed to hear at that moment!

ME: "Nah, the car is the safest place to be. Rubber tires!"
G: "Get on your phone and Google it."
ME: (looking, accessing all kinds of advice, contradictory and consistent alike). "Well, it's fairly  safe to keep driving. But it looks like if lightning strikes us, it won't be THAT that kills us, it'll be YOU that does it."
G: "Huh?"
ME: "Think about it... the lightning hits, we'll be ok, but you'll lose control of the car, and bang into the ditch/tree/whatever..."
G: (laughing and getting a teensy bit of a hysterical note in her voice) "Oh GREAT. NO PRESSURE THERE!!"
ME (ever so helpful as always): "Just be careful. Don't touch anything metal."
G collapses in a fit of giggles: "Just be careful? Is your phone metal? What's metal in here? My steering wheel is fine right?"
We're yelling at each other at this point, the noise from the rain and thunder is so loud. We turn the cabin light on and look for any and all metal parts. The shaft of the shift. The 4-wheel drive switch. That's about it..the rest is leather or plastic, we think.
ME: "Yeah, you're fine."

It lasted about 30 minutes... we had to slow it down to 40mph in parts, but overall it wasn't so bad. And we didn't die. Instead we started planning how we're gonna make the cut for Team USA next year. HA!