Lightning! The Not-so-silent Killer! We've all been there... you're settling in to watch a movie with the family, or snuggling in to a warm bed and just shutting your eyes, when you hear it... That low throaty rumble in the distance. You sometimes think, "Nah, it's just a passing truck or something." But then a few seconds later, you see a flash of light and then another small boom in the distance... Rats! it's about to storm. Now most people in Texas, particularly along a corridor stretching from the pan-handle and following along the Red River into Northeast and east Texas, fear the dreaded severe weather because of the other things that these storm bring with them, hail, high winds, torrential rains, and Tornadoes. We normally think that lightning is just a beautiful light show and a bit of diversion from the real dangerous parts of the weather. oh, how wrong we are... Sometimes we take the dangers of lightning for granted. We sprint across ou