Zounds!

There was just a mother thunder and lightning storm over here -- complete with power outage. Back where I'm from we don't really have thunder and lightning like it is over here. Here it's lightning every eight seconds or so, there it's like two cracks of thunder for a whole 15-minute storm. I wonder why that is...maybe it's too dry in southern California for the amount of cloud needed to create sufficient friction? Anybody know?