The raining spitfire

I suddenly heard the heavens open with buckets of water splintering the roof at lightning speed.I lay in bed listening to hundreds of air gliders pounding against all ends of my house. It mysteriously stopped, but only to awaken me again with the dreadful scream of  THUNDER!!! The sound took my breathe away for what felt like a milestone! I finally got used to the shouting cry, so I slowly but surely drifted back to sleep.