Thunderstorms

[RCMerchant]

I love thunderstorms!
I love when the wind starts going crazy, and the cat starts yowling. And CRACK! Lighting lights up the sky, and it starts raining like p**s out of a boot! I was an a***ole one night and a storm was boiling up, and I went outside to watch it. BANG! Lighting hit the tree right in across the road from me.
I ran in the house and Tiana, who had told me to stay in the house, said- "See?". Jeff, my neighbor, was getting out of his car when it happened! Scared the s**t out of him, too!

[ER]

A good storm is a lovely thing.

[Trevor]

Pretoria is pretty bad for thunderstorms: in 2015, a lightning bolt hit a house not too far from me and burnt it down within an hour. It was a thatched roof house with several lightning conductors but it still burned down. It hasn't been rebuilt since.

[retrorussell]

Had a doozy recently this year when the summer weather came very late-- took till early July to arrive!  It was near the start of my 2-week vacation in June and we were still way overcast.  The thunder and lightning started hitting like crazy around 6AM or so.  It was hitting right outside my house!  I could hear the sizzle of lightning right by my window as I tried to sleep-- TZZZT-- and I knew a few seconds later a big ol' POW would erupt in the air and shake the hell out of my house!  And it did!  Then around 6:30AM the power was OUT.  I did not get power back on until way later that night.  During the day when I got up I'd see electric company vehicles all over the place, and my street was blocked off all day.  Turns out the lightning DID strike just outside my house and DESTROYED a phone pole.  They had to bring in a whole new one and hook it up!  Went to see a movie that night around 8:30 or so with the power still out, and when I got back at 11:30PM or so they had fixed it.  That was by far the closest I'd been to actual lightning strikes!

[Alex]

Had one the last time I was down at my mums. It was about 2am and me and  Kristi lay awake watching it. Lossiemouth gets very few thunderstorms though. I think in the 17 years I have been here I've seen 5. One was a cracker and there was a lightning strike just outside my window. I saw the flash and it was a few days before I stopped seeing flashing lights in front of my eyes.

[Trevor]

The Film Archives admin building is 126 years old so strange things happen here - e.g. you don't want to be here late at night, I promise you. The strangest thing that's ever happened to me is that ball lightning once nearly hit me after passing straight through a window. 

[RCMerchant]

The Film Archives admin building is 126 years old so strange things happen here - e.g. you don't want to be here late at night, I promise you. The strangest thing that's ever happened to me is that ball lightning once nearly hit me after passing straight through a window. 

Lotsa folks don't believe in ball lightning. It's a real thing! Our neighbors the Stermers had ball  lightning come into there house and explode in the living room!

[Trevor]

The Film Archives admin building is 126 years old so strange things happen here - e.g. you don't want to be here late at night, I promise you. The strangest thing that's ever happened to me is that ball lightning once nearly hit me after passing straight through a window. 

Lotsa folks don't believe in ball lightning. It's a real thing! Our neighbors the Stermers had ball  lightning come into there house and explode in the living room!

People working here with me then said I could have qualified for the high jump in Olympics as I jumped so high when it exploded. 

[RCMerchant]

We got a storm going on right now. It's not violent, but the thunder is rumbling. 

[ER]

Lossiemouth gets very few thunderstorms though. I think in the 17 years I have been here I've seen 5.

That blows my mind. This time of year we can easily get seventeen thunderstorms in a month, the majority of them qualifying as severe. Hail is relatively uncommon but tornadoes are a hazard of life, with the reality being that maybe half a dozen times a year they'll threaten to touch down someplace in the city. A man I used to know in Tulsa said we had worse weather than he did. Local weathercasters sum it up by saying, "Widespread regional tornado threat today." Ghastly things tornadoes.

My relatives across the ocean really don't know why I live here in the Midwestern hill country but I tell them I can't leave, it's home.

[Svengoolie 3]

What I'm  concerned about is now we're getting thubnerstorms in winter.  That did not happen when I was a kid.

But hey,  man made climate change is just a Chinese plot to hurt American business.  After all American politicians owned by big business tell us so.

[Trevor]

We got a storm going on right now. It's not violent, but the thunder is rumbling. 

That's not thunder you hear: that's my stomach rumbling. 

[FatFreddysCat]

I love 'em (as long as I'm indoors when the storm hits so I can watch it safely).

...My dog hates'em.

[claws]

As a kid I used to be scared of thunderstorms. Like, I would actually hide underneath my bed. Lost my fear when I was caught in a storm riding my bicycle back home from a swimming pond out in the sticks.

We had a pretty good storm two weeks ago. We spend the day at my niece's house, just hanging out and chilling in her backyard. Late in the afternoon the sky was slowly turning dark blue / black, then came the wind. We retreated and seeked shelter in her garden / wild wine pavilion when we heard thunder approaching. Soon enough we spotted the first lightning and shortly after it was like we were sitting under a waterfall. My niece's pavilion is "water proof" so we didn't get wet. We just sat there enjoying the storm. It had been hellish 90F all day so we really appreciated the cooling down. It was still storming when we left around 1130 pm, so we had to make a run to our car even though I didn't mind getting soaked.

So yeah, always love a good thunderstorm.

[Svengoolie 3]

I just want to make sure Victory,  my own home built PC,  is unplugged during them.