Feel Better:Complain About Anything, page-107012

Lightning -> the sooner the thunder follows, that tells you how close the lightning is to you.

One time at our other place in the night, there was lightning and immediately followed by a huge crack of thunder.
Near the house around 40' away was a big redgum with 4 main leading trunks and around 2 odd weeks later, 1 or 2 of them died, so I'll assume that that is where the lightning hit.

Doing ones own repairs -> fortunately, there is not a lot I can't do.

As for the rain, yes it is good as that is our only water supply.