The town is covered in a low blanket of fresh smoke. Everyone is out on their porches, but unusually quiet. Lots of farm utes out on the streets of town. The lightning is almost constant, but most of it is not directly over us.

Some fires still going but they're being managed quickly.

Looks like resources are stretched, they seem to be pulling back to only one vehicle per fire to hit all the new fires.

It's incredible how long and bright the lightning is. This lightning is not kidding.

This is the frequency of lighting if you look to the north. It's also like this in the south and east. It's like being a neighbour to three nightclubs with three different strobe effects going.

These are the jokes, people

It's been a wild day. Thanks for being here through the disaster live tooting.

Once again I cannot recommend enough just getting your most ordinary shit together when there's a disaster warning. Feed the dog, take your daily meds, charge your phone, put on boots, have a big cuppa.

This is not one storm. It looks like waves on the radar. Most of the fires came out of the first wave.

We're about to get the third. I was pretty pumped for the first two but I'm getting tired.

Woke up just to go to the loo, as I'm walking down the hallway I see a lighting strike hit ground on the hill behind the house. It doesn't catch fire but it wakes up everyone else.

We're just in time to watch a what looks like a supercell form over us, dump some light hail and move on.

It's nearly sunrise and we're out on the porch watching this one move on. Pets have decided to stay in bed.

Fires keep popping up and being managed. There's a bit of dampness about now, which really changes things. When that first storm came through, everything was crispy.

Went into town. They seem fine there, no damage, but there are workers installing metal roofing

In case you were wondering what stage of capitalism we're at, it's the [put guys on the metal roof before you've finished putting out the lightning fire] stage.

The next few days will be interesting.

The community is deeply traumatised by the aftermath of last year's supercell. Not the actual storm, but the loss of homes, businesses, vehicles, crops and gardens, and the ensuing abuse by insurance companies.

It's hard to know how people will react.

I'm now very motivated to study why supercells form where they do.

There's no way this is a coincidence. Watching warm wet air go over my region is like watching a shallow creek with a single pebble in it. The same one spot is a nucleation point for potential storms. I want to know why. It's not a tall mountain or a body of water, it's just an area.

[Edit: please #boost this, please #eli5yo how this works #InfoDump all over this]