occupational hazard

i nearly died today. i was standing in the water at the edge of the ocean with sharayna, one of my students, when a bolt of lightning jolted down from the sky, very close to us. we screamed bloody murder, jumped out of the water, and then it started pouring down rain like a deluge. everybody was yelling and running up to the boardwalk, and the lifeguards were blowing their whistles and hauling people out of the water, and the wind was howling and the thunder crashed and it was amazing. so we went to visit another student at work on the boardwalk and had lunch at his restaurant under an umbrella. and nobody died. the end.