Just properly pissed it down here and I heard thunder. However it's not on my "forecast fox" so I'm torn between what to believe.
It looked like the lighting was gonna hit the houses across the street from me It must've been going for at least 40 minutes. My house was shaking from the thunder at one point. I opened my bliinds to look properly and it stopped
I never had to mop any water up. It never got wet enough to drip through. I've only ever had water coming out of my downstairs ceiling and that was cos of poor quality fittings my bathroom suite came with