Boomers.

  Sound a sleep and suddenly a tremendously loud drawn out booom.Our building though old did not shake from the strike that must have been out on the water and close.
   Thunderstorms have been rare this spring and summer.Thunder in the distance has been heard a few times
rumbling like a heavily laden semi.
    I looked at the bedside clock and sighed its 2:20 am.More flashes and more booms close together then a muted howl of the winds just as the clouds let loose their burdens of water in a loud torrent of rain.
    Incongruously the below ground sprinklers added their contributions at the same time.
     "Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleeve of care" was not to be mine for the remainder  of the night.