Trigger warning (and spoiler alert): Death and dismemberment

It had already been a long morning here at the house. A storm system moved through around 4 a.m., the sort of thing fit for an old-fashioned Hollywood horror movie. I’ve lived through numerous hurricanes and other storms and I don’t know if I’ve ever seen that much lightning. It looked like someone had turned on the world’s biggest strobe light. And the thunder at 8,500 feet is always something, but this was extra.

And then R...