As afternoon rain returns to downtown St Augustine, we aren’t seeing the lightening that showed this morning, but there is a different hazard to avoid — pedestrians and cars that do not know where to turn.

At 10:08 a.m. the first bright flash of lightening and clap of thunder, separated by no more than one or two seconds, signaled that the downpour was imminent. And, it was. A sheeting rain, interrupted by occasional recurrence of nature’s light show, sent what few people who had been milling around on a search for cover.