Commuting through a storm

[Possegal]

THose of you who do this regularly, what do you do if your commute entails a thunder and lightening storm? Rain I can handle. And good thing as my ride home today had rain starting about 1 mile into it and the rain just kept coming down harder and harder as I rode. It was torrential by the time I rode up to my door.

But there lightening, that was not so enjoyable. I didn't think it was a short passing storm (and it wasn't), so stopping and waiting for it to pass didn't seem like a viable option. The folks I could call that wouldn't have to really go out of their way - none could have been called today for a lot of reasons.

On the plus side, I did see a lot of other folks riding home in the storm. So I knew I wasn't alone.

I figure it wasn't as bad as the day last summer when I was out riding with two friends from work and the last half mile before we get back to the office, I'm third in the line and I look up and then say so that at least the woman who was in front of me heard - "Is that a funnel up ahead?" She said "Yep, I'd start pedaling faster!"

Just curious what the rest of you do.

Edited because I said rain I CAN'T handle, and I can handle rain. It's the lightening that I wasn't a fan of. And luckily not a huge cross wind so I wasn't having any trouble with that.