I have a Distant Thunder disk by the Nature Company I used to go to sleep by. I have several others too, Gentle Ocean, a bubbling stream (forget the title), and a jungle disk. They are all amazing for transporting you someplace else.
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Who else is afraid of Lightning storms?
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I'm only afraid my equipment will get zapped if there's a surge... Other than that I never minded thunderstorms, my parents had a strange fear related to them however so as a kid I was always told to stay inside during a storm and avoid using the bath... I never figured out exactly why they had this fear.
I'm not afraid of them, but they are rare in California and when they happen outside of the normal rainy season, they can start wildfires (a rare summer lightning storm started over 300 fires in 2020). So I do not see them as a good thing.
Lightning fried our TV when I was a kid growing up.
But no not even remotely scared of lightning.
However my friend who died a week today (Covid) was petrified of it. She would go hide in the toilets if we had it at work as there were no windows there.
But no not even remotely scared of lightning.
However my friend who died a week today (Covid) was petrified of it. She would go hide in the toilets if we had it at work as there were no windows there.
As a Swede I know that Thor won't hurt me as long as a honor his day (Thursday) by eating copious amounts of pea soup, so I'm good.
I saw a bolt of lighting blow up a transformer on a power pole about 50’ away while driving the car. That gets your attention, and agree, flash, boom, boy is it loud.
The worst, prolonged storms I’ve experienced are in the Minneapolis suburbs, worse than Houston so far.
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When I was older kid(18) I got a job with my small town garage! They had me mowing Lawns in the four cemeteries they have! Once while in highest one on this little plateau with graves going back to beginning of the 20th Century! Well in my ice made valley in Summertime you can see storms coming down valley! Well while one storm was moving in my boss came up to get me because of the storm! While walking to the truck a Lightning strike hit a tree falling right across the bed if that small dump truck and made a very loud boom that made me ears to ring so I couldn’t hear!
We had to call another worker to bring up a chainsaw to get tree off his truck bed! It destroyed that tree!
We had to call another worker to bring up a chainsaw to get tree off his truck bed! It destroyed that tree!
When I lived in upstate NY in the Finger Lakes, we would sit out on the front porch and watch the distant storms, but when they got close, you had to respect them.
Living out here in the Bay Area of CA, we don't get thunder and lightning that often, but last fall a very intense storm moved in quickly. Normally you see the lightning then hear the thunder, this time the lightning was directly over head in the clouds, the thunder was instantaneous, it shook my place with out warning. It was stronger than the 4.5 earthquake we had earlier in the year. Never heard anything that loud before, except the Concord taking off at Dulles airport, the mother was loud.
Living out here in the Bay Area of CA, we don't get thunder and lightning that often, but last fall a very intense storm moved in quickly. Normally you see the lightning then hear the thunder, this time the lightning was directly over head in the clouds, the thunder was instantaneous, it shook my place with out warning. It was stronger than the 4.5 earthquake we had earlier in the year. Never heard anything that loud before, except the Concord taking off at Dulles airport, the mother was loud.
We had a lighting storm overhead last year, directly over our place (What are the chances...)
It took out 90% of our my modem/router, but luckily everyting else pluggin in on the same circuit survived.
we got a spare room with computer tech stuff in as well and was plugged in, that came out ok too