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The storm on Tuesday passed over Dan Grenfell in Amersham, giving him and his friends quite a show.

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The flood water was too deep to risk driving through on the A40 so BBC News online reader, Peter Bouckley, was left stranded.

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Simon Biggs took this pink-tinged fork of lightning using his mobile phone.

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This was the scene at Victoria Road in North Acton, London. Locals told photographer Timothy Evans that earlier the flood water had risen over the windscreen.

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This was one of 150 exposures that James Davis took, and the only one he felt managed to really capture the force of the lightning.