A mess every ten years

Last Tuesday a huge thunderstorm hit my town. Howling wind up to 120km/h, heavy rain as if a bucket had been turned over, lightning and thunder like a heavy metal show!

It lasted about 20 minutes and managed to completely destroy my neighbors' front yard. Two massive trees were cut at the base by lightning (there actually is a point to that "do not hide under a tree during a storm"!) and one of them uprooted 2 others when it fell. With leaves and branches everywhere my street looked like mother nature's war zone!
I uploaded some pics I took right after the storm...

Someone must have put in a good word for us to the ol' mom though cause none of our trees were damaged! Not even one broken branch! And we got electricity back after 2 days, unlike some in St-Hilaire who stayed in the dark for 4-5...

It's a bit weird though, in 87 we had a massive flood, in 98 the ice storm and in 2008 this apocalyptic thunderstorm with hail the size of tennis balls... is it the new pattern for Montreal? One big crap every ten years?