Bonus Photos of the Day: Awesome Purple Lightning Flashes

I was just looking out the garage door tonight. Nothing abnormal. 

Then, for a second, there's a huge flash of light. 

Then it's gone. Then there's another, smaller one. 

The flashing is still going on, and its been several minutes. There hasn't been any as bright as the one I managed to catch above, but its still going, really consistently. 

All of it is up in that one section of the sky, the entire horizon shown in the picture. 

Most of the smaller flashes only fill half of the horizon, but then the next second, it will fill the other half. 

Yes, I know it's lightning, not something supernatural. In fact, some of the flashes peak above the clouds and you can actually see the lightning bolts reaching across the sky. 

But my point in this whole thing isn't that its supernatural, its that its awesome.

Update: Here's some kind of blurry video, but it helps give you the general idea. Just watch the video and imagine it that way, but more epic. 

Update: Here's another video that catches some of the bigger flashes. Still pretty blurry, but I just love it. And apparently it's called "Sheet Lightning." 

Sheet lightning is an informal name for cloud-to-cloud lightning that exhibits a diffuse brightening of the surface of a cloud, caused by the actual discharge path being hidden or too far away. The lightning itself cannot be seen by the spectator, so it appears as only a flash, or a sheet of light. The lightning may be too far away to discern individual flashes.