[Thunder Storms]   Northern California was and is being hit by a solid storm system. It hit us on Friday evening and dumped some serious rain up to early Sunday morning. We had two thunder hits on Sunday morning about 6am-ish. They were loud! I almost took a shit right in bed! That was the loudest thunder I have heard in years. And those were years from living back in Jersey! Car alarms were set off all around the neighborhood. My girlfriend thought the first one was a jet but I thought it was an earthquake. When the second one hit.... oh thank goodness I was already on the toilet! :O LOL That second hit about 5 or 10 minutes after the first and it opened with two large SNAPS! I expected to see Batman fight scene cartoon ballons exclaiming that word. The cumulonimbus cloud formation seen on Sunday was just spectacular! Within the Valley one could view these vertical formations rising from either the Santa Cruz mountain range or the Fremont and San Jose east hills. At the Fremont section I saw a vertical tower that must have been 3k or 4k feet tall!! It took me back to the memories of driving through Colorado or Nebraka and seeing thier large Cumulus cloud formations. Well, it's Monday and we are back to sunny skies with a few cloud sections sweeping over the Valley. I hope we have a nice wet winter. Looking forward to more movies in front of the fireplace with some of my great friends during those rainy downpours!