Today's excitement

We had some major storms today. While we were eating lunch we heard something like the lighting making a very loud noise. We both said "that hit something". Later we were going to go into town & sure enough the tree at the end of our drive way on the mail box side had a big side out of it & pieces all over the road & into the side of the road on the other side. The top picture shows a hole it the ground from the lighting we think going into the ground, it doesn't show up too good.