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Who else is afraid of Lightning storms?

tristangage said:
I love thunderstorms. I wish we had them more regularly.
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We had a pretty epic one a few weeks ago up in north-east Manchester. We were just hit by a truckload of hail and lightning instantly. Was beautiful too! A friend who sleeps in an attic with a skylight window thought the world was ending :D.
Lovely stuff.
 
I love thunderstorms, complete with lightening.

My son looks at me like I'm crazy every time he hears me say, "Cool. A thunderstorm! Let's go outside." :p

When I was a kid (a very long time ago :eek:), my dad's TV antenna was struck by lightning. The TV literally blew up. It was great! I was eating popcorn and threw it into the air. It's a great memory. My dad didn't take the enjoyment from it that I did, however.

Now, I DON'T like the storms that knock the power out for days. Once my UPS is drained, I start stressing. And cranking up the generator is no fun.
 
I love thunderstorms. I have happy memories of my parents waking me and my brother up in the middle of the night to go sit on the back porch and watch a storm roll in over the hills way off behind our house. Cool times :)

The bigger, louder, raunchier the storm the better.
 
I had an unfortunate experience with lightning about 6 years ago. Lightning either hit, or hit near a phone line in front of my house and took out 3 Tivo modems, my fax machine and my telephone system, a couple of my neighbors had similar failures as well.
 
I am a fan of catastrophic electrostatic dielectric breakdown. Alas, it does not happen often in the LA area.
 
When I was younger I hated thunderstorms, now I can't wait for them to happen. In fact I became a weather spotter so I can track them.:p
 
I love thunderstorms. LOVE them. My wife is TERRIFIED of lightning and thunder. We live in an area with a lot of thunderstorms during the summer. But oddly enough, we seem to sit in a specific spot that the storms go around regularly.

Look at the attached image (and try to ignore the damn Holiday Inn logos). This was a massive storm that came through Atlanta just the other day. It covered the entire city (I watched the map the whole time as it passed through), as it moved straight south-east. It barely rained enough at our house to wet the pavement. Our house is around the star in the image. And this happens on a very regular basis. Big storms roll through and almost alway either dissipate just before they hit us, or split and go right around us. Either nature hates me, or likes her.
 

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Same with me. Absolutely love thunderstorms. I'll grab a beer and sit in the back yard out of the rain and watch them happily for as long as they last....except when funnel clouds start showing up, then I have to go calm the wife and kids down even more.
 
waloshin said:
My place getting hit and lightning seeping through tiny cracks near the window.
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That's... really not how lightning works. I'd suggest reading all about electrical conductivity. It might just put your mind at ease.

I love electrical storms. We get some killers here in the tropics. I've witnessed thunderclaps so loud that it has sent British backpackers diving under benches.

Silly gits.
 
samiwas said:
I love thunderstorms. LOVE them. My wife is TERRIFIED of lightning and thunder. We live in an area with a lot of thunderstorms during the summer. But oddly enough, we seem to sit in a specific spot that the storms go around regularly.

Look at the attached image (and try to ignore the damn Holiday Inn logos). This was a massive storm that came through Atlanta just the other day. It covered the entire city (I watched the map the whole time as it passed through), as it moved straight south-east. It barely rained enough at our house to wet the pavement. Our house is around the star in the image. And this happens on a very regular basis. Big storms roll through and almost alway either dissipate just before they hit us, or split and go right around us. Either nature hates me, or likes her.
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I see Snellville there. I grew up there!
 
I'm afraid. My neighbors house got struck. burned part of the home down, and fried all the electronics. Then a tree got struck, and fell on another house causing severe damage to the roof. A new roof was needed.
 
waloshin said:
I am petrified of lightning, I hate driving in it.........
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yg17 said:
It's the driving in storms part that I hate.
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Actually your car is probably one of the safest places to be during a lightning storm, and it has nothing to do with the tires like some people think. The Metal frame, and shell of the car act as a Faraday Cage, and divert the electricity around the occupants. Just make sure your not touching anything metal in the car that might be connected to the frame.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage

leekohler said:
I have never driven or slept in lightning. I imagine that would be fairly uncomfortable. ;) :D

Sitting on the toilet in lightning must really suck. :)
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ROTFLOL :)



As for storms, I LOVE them! Thunderstorms, Blizzards, Tornados etc... the bigger the better. I remember being down the shore, and sitting on the balcony of the hotel and watching lightning strike over the ocean, it was awesome. I love watching Storm Chasers on Discovery.... It sucks that Hurricanes, and Tornados kill people, and damage buildings, but they are still amazing natural phenomenon.
 
todd2000 said:
As for storms, I LOVE them! Thunderstorms, Blizzards, Tornados etc... the bigger the better. I remember being down the shore, and sitting on the balcony of the hotel and watching lightning strike over the ocean, it was awesome. I love watching Storm Chasers on Discovery.... It sucks that Hurricanes, and Tornados kill people, and damage buildings, but they are still amazing natural phenomenon.
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I agree completely! I've always loved thunderstorms and found weather fascinating. I just love it when we have storms, and it was really cool when we got hit with 3 feet of snow this winter.
 
I love storms, we've had rain and thunder here for the past week and its a great sound for me to fall asleep to.

I love lighting storms even more, not sure why.
 
todd2000 said:
Actually your car is probably one of the safest places to be during a lightning storm, and it has nothing to do with the tires like some people think. The Metal frame, and shell of the car act as a Faraday Cage, and divert the electricity around the occupants. Just make sure your not touching anything metal in the car that might be connected to the frame.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage
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In a similar vein, Top Gear put Richard Hammond in a Golf once and struck it with lightning: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve6XGKZxYxA :)

Last summer we had an all-night epic thunderstorm. Normally we just get the odd '5-minuter' but this was a couple of hours of sustained sky-rock! :D

I was sat in the window-sill with my camcorder and a couple of cans of Pepsi. Great entertainment!!! :cool:
 
I absolutely HATE lightning due to the Toonami TIE "Countdown," where Sara (TOM's female AI companion) gets struck by lightning in a nebula and becomes evil. That scene absolutely scares the CRAP out of me and to this day I refuse to watch the event anymore (funny thing is, I was fine with it when I first saw it) and what's worse is, they completely forget she was struck by lightning and instead say an "alien intelligence" made her become evil. IT WAS LIGHTNING. I HATE LIGHTNING NOW BECAUSE OF YOU. I created an account here just to post this. If it were TOM who was being struck by lightning on the other hand, it wouldn't have been as scary, because I'm used to seeing bad stuff happen to TOM. Also, the prospect of evil TOM is hot.

Strangely enough, my favorite Super Friends character is Black Vulcan, though that's because he's a sexy black man.
 
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