It's easy to understand how the ancients considered such earth-shattering sounds in the sky to be the voice of God.

Our family was all tumbling into bed after staying up too late watching telly when the magnificent lightening show started.

Yasinta ran downstairs concerned that there had been some kind of electrical explosion on the roof outside her bathroom - she was kind of right.

Squeals of disbelief followed with 'oohs' and 'ahhs' as dramatic fork lightning strikes unfolded around us and sharp cracks of thunder overwhelmed the airwaves, enveloped our home, shook it then rumbled off into the distance.

We were all a bit bleary-eyed the next morning after our late-night show, but we stumbled off to our classes and workplaces to keep calm and carry-on.

Only that evening as I stood looking at a massive school hall filled with 10,000 neatly displayed books ready for a fundraising event, that had just been cancelled by a five-day snap lockdown, did I consider that maybe I should have listened more closely to that thunder and heard it as an ominous warning!

I'd worked alongside community volunteers and sixty fantastic hard-working students and school staff throughout the day to set-up the Horsham College Chaplaincy Book Fair on Thursday, planning for a Friday opening.

Then a snap lockdown was announced.

How does one proceed?

The thousands of books took hours to put in place and those books must go to new homes.

The community need those inexpensive books to read.

The housebound, elderly and families with young children need affordable reading material to escape into and study.

The Horsham College Chaplaincy Committee need the funds from the sale of those books to survive.

The 1000 strong school needs to use the hall for other bookings and classes; dance, physical education and drama production rehearsals.

The books cannot be moved without the help of many community volunteers and students.

I'm trying to find my way out of this loop of requirements that doesn't just involve the whole set-up process in reverse but I'm feeling a bit stuck.

We all feel a little lost at present, treading water rather than moving forward.

At least there's plenty of water to tread after last week's thunderstorm.