Had a relatively close strike happen during a thunderstorm, a thunderstorm that was intense enough that we had to stop the car entirely as you couldn't even see

Had a relatively close strike happen during a thunderstorm, a thunderstorm that was intense enough that we had to stop the car entirely as you couldn't even see the hood of the car through the waterfall like rain. When the lightning struck the thunder felt instant. It was however clear from the admittedly blinding flash that it was still a ways off. Probably some hundred meters. But as you said, the sound. In a car, in a torrent of rain, it was the loudest and sharpest sound I believe I have ever heard. By the sound of it I could have sworn it was inside the car as couldn't tell it had been muffled at all by either the torrent of rain, or the bodywork and careful sound dampening in any modern car. There had been lightning all around us for a while, but we barely heard the thunder of those strikes through the thunderous murmur of the sky falling down on us. The difference was truly astonishing!