There's no place like home....

I was watching a re-run of the X files.
The curtains, a couple of minutes before, gently wafting in the breeze were now almost horizonal.
A bright flash of light.
And just for a nano second I thought - Mulder was right and the aliens are here to abduct me.
The loud *CRACK* was not the UFO landing though, it was the branches of the very large and very old tree across the road being ripped off.
The shower of sparks was not some fireworks either. That was the power line coming down.
Out on the street there is stuff flying everywhere, branches and bits of paper and some of the dozens of orange traffic cones...
One intrepid neighbour has picked up some of the cones and blocked the road off so that no one will drive over the live power line lying across the road.
One news guy said something about Tornado cells.
Eh? What the....?

I got this picture from Google, my street is nothing like this and whatever it was, didn't quite look like this but it was a very strange and interesting half hour.
I doubt the police officers who had to stop people walking over the power line for the rest of the night thought it was very interesting.