Sitting here minding our own business, and a flash and immediate very loud kaboom announced a lightning strike close to the house. It was close enough that it sounded like something large landed on the house. A few minutes later we had another one, louder and longer thunder, and then it got quiet. Mostly. More thunder while I was writing.
Until Dan noticed smoke on the hill directly across from us, like just a couple of minutes after the thunder. So we got in the car and went to look and sure enough, a lightning strike caused a fire.
As the crow flies this is less than a mile from our house, but fires like this will burn up the hill first. Fortunately that isn’t the hill we’re on, but it would come this way very quickly if the wind comes up.
We called 9-1-1 and reported it, and hopefully soon DNR will show up and put it out. It’s still growing. It’s really dry over there, a lot of open grass so it will go fast if they don’t get a move on.
Just when we thought we weren’t going to have to worry about fires this year. Bleah.