It came down cats and dogs last night, a real humdinger of  a storm, hammer and tongs, thunder and lightning,  . What fun!

My vocabulary feels somewhat impoverished in the matter of adjectival phrases to describe the weather. Perhaps texting would be better:

OMG =8-0 g8 pimp (Oh my gosh, scary, great, cool - amusing that texting for "cool" (4 letters) is also 4 letters - must have something to do with being pimp)