Perps are lucky. My wife and I BOTH are awake whenever a thunderstorm is coming through. Won't tell you why, but we are, every time. Lucky we weren't living next door.
Ditto on being awake during thunderstorms. I wake up to keep up with the weather. It’s been pounded into my consciousness over decades of severe Texas weather: thunderstorms can and do produce tornadoes with little or no advance warning. I hope someone saw something and contacts law enforcement. This kind of sh*t is not supposed to happen in Kaufman County. Good grief! People pull off on the shoulders of the farm-to-market roads to chit chat with friends and neighbors. When you go to the local cafe and someone you know walks in, you invite them to sit down with you. You meet neighbors at the store and stop to talk and gossip.
Sorry to ramble, but this happened in my county, my backyard. I am taking this personally.