On Bombs and Bolts

Last night, it rained so heavily, the skies were overcast, the clouds had a fury... And the thunder, o my God, I woke up in the middle of the night, somewhere fell a thunderbolt, with such surging power, so loud, deafening, it shook the earth... I shivered, I didn't think of it being mere thunder even in my wildest dreams...
I was convinced that a bomb fell over Manhattan!! Just the other day, alert citizens & police had foiled an attempted bombing... I was still in that mood, reading the papers, watching TV, all the media coverage on the plot...
So no wonder, when I hear such a deafening boom (BOOMm actually) in the middle of the night, jolted out of sleep, I thought it was a bomb!!!
I felt bad for all the people who have to live through bombs... How must life be for innocent civilians who live in areas ridden with conflict... Perhaps they wake up every night with such noises, only that it is really bombs dropping from the sky.. Perhaps this is how it was during World War II...
For me, apart from the few seconds of worry, it turned out okay, it was just a thunder storm..

Digressing from the topic (as usual), the word "Bomb" actually comes from the root word in Sanskrit, बम्बका, 'Bambaká', which means something that has a very huge impact/noise.
Probably some ancient Indian heard such a thunderbolt like I did last night, and came up with this word! Or the weapons of warfare described in ancient India inspired the word...
 But in Kali kaalam, Bombs are planted by unethical faceless coward enemies who want to paralyze society with fear... That's why the word "Terrorism"... Terrorism has no aim/goal, it's ultimate goal is to just create terror, terrorize, it's sadism, it is the means as well as the end. Hopefully, it doesn't end society, society will end it.