The Boston Globe is really establishing itself as the place to go see powerful images of news events. These photos of the recent storms in the Southeast U.S. caught my eye, I had heard about some bad weather out that way, but nothing makes the point clearer than some good photos. Man, it was really raining!

Flooding in Vinings, Georgia

We don’t get very much lightning and thunder out here in northern California, but last weekend a powerful lightning storm passed through in the early morning, waking everyone I know up. Frank Fennema went out and took this spectacular photo of the Golden Gate bridge during the storm.

Lightning over Golden Gate bridge