While not a good thing there is a good chance its not a house but street lamps or transformers.In flatbush the whole night fire trucks have been racing to lamps and transformers it reeks of smoke. If you see a bright blue light it is not lightning but a power transformer or a street light bursting.
May Hashem guard us and help all of us get through this.Aside from the actual storm the after effects for everyone on the east coast are monumental.
May Hashem have Rachmonus on all those directly and indirectly effected bodily and materially.