The only reason I was outside was that I was a Sophomore in College and I wasn’t allowed a car on campus yet.
I had to walk everywhere.
(I got that remedied with an old Cadillac Sedan a short time later.)
The bright side of having to walk everywhere back then was that you got to see the lights more than once. :-)
I didn’t know we even had a chance to see them here that night until they mentioned it on the Nashville evening news. I bundled up and ran outside to watch, putting off supper until I couldn’t stand shivering any more.
That’s the only time I’ve had the good fortune to see them and envy people living farther north who get to see the spectacular auroras. It must be mind-blowing.