Thunderstruck:

At about 5am this morning, I was awakened by the single loudest thunderclap I’ve *ever* heard. If you told me that it struck ten feet from the house, I wouldn’t be surprised at all. It was like you could hear the contours of the Earth as the boom moved away from us in all directions. Unbelievable. I expect that I was actually awakened by the lightning flash, then heard the thunderclap in its entirety. There were a few more after that, but because I genuinely wasn’t sure whether or not the house next door, say, wasn’t on fire (based on the insanity of the sound), I got up, wandered around, checked the windows, etc. In the three or four minutes I was awake, I can say with some certainty that I doubt if I’ve ever seen more rain fall out of the sky at a faster rate than I did for those few minutes. Utter madness.

I got up a few minutes ago because there was a drip from the bedroom window (surprise surprise), and I put up some tape to keep the water running down the window, rather than dripping on the sill. Whee. It does give credence to the roof leak theory, rather than the improper window installation, because this window’s leaking, and neither of the other two are – those leak under longer, more constant rain. This one seems to leak at a particular volume of water.

We’ll see.