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We have hail and lighting and Thunder outside right now . It is a work of God. So a question, what is your favorite Thunder Storm Experince

― anthony, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Big fat globules of rain huge fork lightniong every second. Booms and cracks of thunder, french acordian dance band in the background.

― Ed, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

When I was little, lightning struck the house across the street. It hit the antenna, lots of sparks, explosion, and the thing fell off the house.

― tOM p, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Muggy summers in upstate New York, heat lightning and stuff like that. Very enjoyable. Always seemed like a great setting for a Ray Bradbury story, that weather.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Desert lightning storms while visiting Arizona = classic. Thunderstorm near home so bad we were forced to stop the car on the side of the road (the car then started rocking back and forth from the winds) = classic.

― Josh, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Musical inspiration. Thunder heard walking in a valley somewhere in Central Otago when I was 16(?) - *there* is yr tomtom sound. (how? E- Z - no bottom skin, & tune the top one as loose as you poss. can & still have the stick bounce back)

― duane, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

(i apologise for the dorky "gearhead" nature of that post BTW)

― duane, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

During one fabulous night thunderstorm, sitting on the window ledge of my second story bedroom with my legs hanging out, wind blowing my hair around my head, watching lightning flashes going off across the surrounding hills. Beautiful.

― Kim, Saturday, 14 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Camping out when young with boy scouts. We are on a military base at night swinging on this huge swingset , the kind that come in playgrounds. Very safe in a lightning storm. Suddenly its bright as day for liike 4 seconds. We ran quickly away. THank GOd we weren't fried. Later, we use wooden Katana blades to cause vandalism.

― Mike Hanley, Saturday, 14 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

All thunderstorms are cool, but I always put my DMs on when they are happening, as this would save me from being electrocuted.

― james e l, Saturday, 14 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

A big old storm is brewwing up something wonderful here.

― Ed, Saturday, 14 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Watching the incredible fork lightning from the window of my aunt's old house near Brussels. The power cut in Arran. Oh, and shagging during one.

― Ally C, Sunday, 15 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Thunder storms are brilliant if you do not have to accomplish anything during them... if you can just enjoy them as an awesome and awe-inspiring fit of fury on the part of nature...

I had to drive from NYC to New Haven during the worst of Hurricane Floyd, it was not fun at all.

But last year, in about August, the hot and muggy weather of weeks was finally broken by a thunderstorm. We were at a house party in Essex at the time, and ever so slightly drunk. I was so overjoyed at the prospect of no longer being hot and sticky that I ran out into the rain and danced around the garden to the beat of the thunder for nearly half an hour. My friends all thought I'd lost it, but then again, they frequently think that.

― masonic boom, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

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