Yep, that same long thunder roll gave me a lovely early start to the morning as well.  I'm up on the hill and it was shaking it up pretty good.

RS, there was one last night that almost sent ME scurrying under the table!  Even with earplugs in and the fan running, it woke me from a dead sleep.

Of course, when you live line-of-sight to the antenna farm, you get to see and hear some pretty spectacular lightning strikes.  (The TV reception isn't bad, either.)

Holy shit that was loud.  It felt like it exploded right as it came over the ridge by the radio towers.  I jumped 4 inches in the air from dead sleep, and then spent the next half hour reassuring children that it was "nothing to be afraid of."  The long rolling thunder was strange, too.  Could hear it all the way to Michigan. There was a split second as I was jarred awake where I thought "who the hell is responsible for this? ...  oh yeah, God."  Glad Lakeside is still there, but I swear Central H.S. is just going to get blown into oblivion sometime.

Is there a law or regulations that forbid super sonic jets to fly over cities at super sonic speeds? You'd think there would be, with all the broken windows and such.

I never wake up from anything. My alarm clock can't even wake me up some days, but I definitely woke up to the sound of thunder at 3:3- last night.

Also, I might be mistaken, but thunder is a sonic boom, is it not?

The sudden increase in pressure and temperature from lightning produces rapid expansion of the air surrounding and within a bolt of lightning. In turn, this expansion of air creates a sonic shock wave which produces the sound of thunder, often referred to as a clap, crack, or peal of thunder.

But why did that thunder roll on and on like a freight train going by?  It was the neatest thing here in Lakeside, I was at my window on the lakeside and the sound just kept going across the lake to Canada or WI.

Absolutely crazy loud scared the crap out of me! Ha