Storm clouds explode from the surface of Lake Maracaibo in Northern Venezuela marking the onset of the nightly metamorphosis from a tropical paradise to the center of earth's most raging lightning alley. The Catatumbo Lightning is born again, bound to transform the black night sky into the greatest heavenly firework one can imagine. Silence yields to the distant rumbling of thunder, vibrations travel like seismic shockwaves through the ground below our feet.