It was around that year that lightning hit my neighbours roof, I was upstairs at the time and the sound was a deafening crack, lightening travelled down the neighbours aerial lead and surged out their lounge socket set fire to their sofa, travelled down our aerial also, blew the sockets off the wall in the lounge, surged through the electric sockets, blew up my computer mother board. Nowadays I have a PC with power and phone line to router running through a surge protector but after that experience, I often still turn off the computer during big storms.. just in case.
Now looking at radar and there's a nice line of showers coming this way but looks like it might head slightly west of here.