The heavens were angry when I left work this afternoon.

At 3:07 p.m., I was moving from the RT level at Kennedy station to the bus level, with the subway level as my ultimate destination.

There's a huge flash and a simultaneous, artillery-like "CRACK!!" that made pretty much everyone jump. This tells me the lightning strike was extremely close to the station.

The subway, however, just sat there. Even the crews didn't know what was what. Finally, at 3:22 p.m., the TTC told us the Kennedy subways weren't going anywhere due to "signalling" problems.

I wanted to get home, so I zoomed upstairs and left the station to catch a cab to Warden station. At the Kennedy/Eglinton intersection, the traffic lights were out, so it wasn't just the TTC experiencing "signalling" problems.

The cab cost $9.25, but at 3:54 p.m., the TTC finally announced the subways were rolling again out of Kennedy. I was at Castle Frank when I heard that.

I hate rotting in subway stations.