Rewrite "It was a dark and stormy night"

So I did the one minute writer thing again and I think I messed it up. Rewrite this sentence in a way that is more interesting and less cliche: It was a dark and stormy night. This is what I did.

I could not tell if it was day or not. I could tell that it was raining very hard outside. The rain smacking my windows making a PING PING PING noise. There were thunderous claps that made me jump when I first heard them. I didn't see it coming. I couldn't . I was in an accident that left me sightless. So for all I knew the sun had been out before the storm came.