Jeff told me this story ... it's just so unbelievably sad:

"Lightning kills 1 at rehearsal dinner" - Courier Post Online, 8/20/07

A Howell woman who was to serve as the matron of honor at her best friend's wedding last weekend was struck by lightning and killed during the rehearsal dinner on the eve of the ceremony.

Cindy Osler, 45, had gone outside with the best man just after 8 p.m. Friday to check their car windows because the weather became cloudy. She was soon hit by a swift stroke of lightning from the threatening sky.

"Everybody was so happy, and then it became a nightmare," Dave Tarnowski, the best man, said in published reports.

The picture above was taken that night, around 6:45, as we were at the Colts Neck Fair when the storm rolled in.