Lightning storm...

This evening we drove 15 miles to a 50 acre ranch for a cook-out at the girl-friend of one of Charlie's co-workers, Terry. She was cute and nice, a divorcee raising a 3rd grader and a 6th grader and today was their last day of school. The food was standard but good, hamburgers with accompaniments and chips and dips. It was spitting a few raindrops so Terry cooked outside and we ate inside.
She has lived here 17 years and is from Nova Scotia. Apparently her husband abruptly left her with the two kids and went off with another woman. She is a registered nurse.
After eating, we all went outside and sat and stood around and watched the lightning. Here the lightning puts on quite a show, it streaks all across the sky over and over again with only sometimes a bit of thunder. There might be one giant streak of lightning running from the top of the sky to the horizon, or it may light up in a giant web across the sky. We saw the lightning when we were driving there and it was still going on as we drove home.
Yes, the lightning could have been dangerous. I think, though, that it was pretty safe since it looked far away out toward the horizon, this may have been an illusion. There were metal chairs to sit on inside a metal shed. We didn't stay long outside and were the first to leave. Two of the guys kept spitting and I thought they were feeling brave to be in danger.