Thank Ghu it's Over For Now

[figmo]

We had a thunderstorm tonight. We had hail. We had heavy rains.

I was stuck in the middle of it.

I find thunderstorms dreadfully frightening. I associate them with loss of electricity (especially after having spent my childhood in the 'burbs and in the middle of nowhere), vulnerability, getting burnt (my paternal grandfather was once struck by lightning and had 3rd degree burns from it), and other unpleasantries.

I totally do not understand all the people going "wow" and "oh what fun this is." I've been nothing but stressed out, worrying that my power could go out again, my house could catch fire, or a tree in my backyard could explode the way another in the neighborhood did when it was struck by lightning last year.

At least it's over -- for now.

Comments

[delennara.livejournal.com]

Nature really can be treatening, indeed...
I think thunder and lightning is like the sea, it is very frightening, and lots of people have lost their lives, butit is fascinating, too. Maybe danger is part of the fascination. But actually I spent thunderstorm night preferably in my bed in a lightning proof house, under the blanket, cuddled close to Pug...
It frightens me, too. But the picture of dancing between the cracking air, the flashlight and wind, to breath the energy, to surf on the storm clouds...
But that is a picture I prefer to paint while I am safe inside...
*hugs*

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

Mmm! Send all your thunderstorms this way! I love a good t-storm, love that bass rumble and roll echoing through my body, love the flash in the sky.

Free fireworks :)

[figmo.livejournal.com]

Would do so if I could. :-)

Part of it may be

[emberleo.livejournal.com]

That the *most* common consequence you listed doesn't bother me as much. I'm afraid of the dark, but I have candles up the wazoo, and a flashlight in my purse, so the power going out isn't a huge threat to me.

I can't say as I've ever worried the house would be struck, because I've never lived in a structure that was the tallest thing around.

And, like most dangerous things in nature, it's beautiful.

So it's hard not to admire Somebody's handiwork.

--Ember--

Re: Part of it may be

[figmo.livejournal.com]

I'm mostly afraid of having a tree explode and fall on my house and break it like one apparently did years ago (the stump is almost big enough to be a dance floor), and of downed power lines.

[mdlbear]

I've always loved thunderstorms, as long as I don't have to be out walking or driving in one. Like you, it's a matter of family attitude.

[figmo.livejournal.com]

Mom was pretty mellow about them. Her father taught her "thunder is God rolling barrels in Heaven."

Unfortunately, the reality of losing electricity in a less-than-safe neighborhood can be horrifying. I know about surge protectors and all that, but when you hear this big BANG! in your neighborhood and find out a large redwood tree, like the ones in your yard, was hit and exploded just a couple of blocks away, it's terrifying.

Apparently there used to be a huge redwood tree in my backyard that did get hit and explode years ago, crashing upon what is now my bedroom and destroying it (the stump would make an excellent dance floor).

[johno.livejournal.com]

It's an interesting split between those who love Thunder-boomers and those who don't.

Two stories illustrate the difference between chriso and I.

When visiting the mid-west, chriso was up most of the night scared of the storm, while I had the best night of sleep in a long time. Some part of me was saying "Home!"

As a company bonus we went to Club Med Sonora Bay. The final night there was "disco" night at the ocean side night club. Along about 11pm it started storming, but that didn't stop several of us from dancing on the patio. We kept waving the folks watching us to come out and join us. Those inside, kept waving us in. The dancers though they were missing out. The inside folks (according to chriso) bemoaned that their SOs were all crazy.