Lightning strike

So the lightning strike is the talk of the neighborhood!
Seems it landed somewhere in the trees or garden of the house right next to us as it blew out their phone line and computer access!
I'm blaming the people on the other side of us for attracting the lightning some how as they have both had experience of this before!! The wife was in the kitchen of a previous home when it was hit by lightning blowing a hole in the roof and the husband's car was hit while driving to work!
I have heard very loud thunder before but this lightning actually striking right outside our house was like nothing else I've ever heard. I can only imagine it's what a bomb going off sounds like...
Several more storms forecast.....we'll be heading for the basement!