Hmm. I must have slept through the 2012 event. This one definitely woke me up. I do remember a glorious ~2004-ish thunderstorm, right at dusk, rolling over t

Hmm. I must have slept through the 2012 event. This one definitely woke me up. I do remember a glorious ~2004-ish thunderstorm, right at dusk, rolling over the Santa Cruz mountains. So maybe a little more than once a decade or so for the big lightning events?