Oh fun! The Tornado Experience!

[Ironclad Alibi]

I suffered from a lightening strike once. It came in through the phone line and took out the phone, the modem and the serial card in my computer. Fortunately it stopped at the serial card.

[Food Lady]

I'm a bit terrified of lightning now. I didn't experience it much in the desert, but when I moved here and first heard the weather guy use the phrase "deadly lightning," I thought, "Is there any other kind?"

[greek_jester]

Quoth Food Lady

when I moved here and first heard the weather guy use the phrase "deadly lightning," I thought, "Is there any other kind?"

Actually, yes. My mum's dad used to work on the railways in the UK in a switching station - this was before tracks would automatically switch for trains.

He used to love thuderstorms, & would lean out of the window frame to get a good view. Unfortunately it was a metal window frame, in the metal wall of a building on metal stilts well away from any hills, trees, or other tall structures. You can see where this is going, can't you? Apparently his supervisors found him out cold on the floor of the hut, burns up both of his arms, after a train went up the wrong track & they couldn't reach him on the phone. He still loved thunderstorms, though

[hecubus]

My dad told me about a time when he was riding in the car with his parents during a thunderstorm. As they went over a hill, lightning struck the car! Luckily, none of them was touching any metal, so they stayed grounded.

He did say that they were all functionally deaf for about a hour afterwards.

[WhiteRose]

never got struck by lightning but i love watching thunder and lightning storms....i'd be happy eating candy and watching it in the dark with a BIG bay window...

[Food Lady]

Quoth WhiteRose

never got struck by lightning but i love watching thunder and lightning storms....i'd be happy eating candy and watching it in the dark with a BIG bay window...

Me, too, simply because CA doesn't get intense ones, mostly just rain that lasts for days. It puts me to sleep, the sound of thunder.

I used to work at a gas station that had gotten struck by lightning the year before I worked there. Apparently everyone in the building went deaf temporarily, so I guess that's to be expected. I just want to understand why that happens. All I know is that my former CW is still terrified of storms.

[smoorman76]

I live ten miles form Greensburg, KS and out here, tornados are SERIOUS business.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Quoth WhiteRose

never got struck by lightning but i love watching thunder and lightning storms....i'd be happy eating candy and watching it in the dark with a BIG bay window...

As long as the rain isn't blowing onto the front porch, that's where you'll find me in my rocking chair, watching.

Which is why I've not been on some evenings as of late . . . we've had thunderstorms pretty frequent over the past 3 weeks and I keep the laptop unplugged until the storms pass, which sometimes isn't until later in the evening (like after midnight.)

[RootedPhoenix]

Quoth DGoddessChardonnay

Which is why I've not been on some evenings as of late . . . we've had thunderstorms pretty frequent over the past 3 weeks and I keep the laptop unplugged until the storms pass, which sometimes isn't until later in the evening (like after midnight.)

I did the same thing with my electronics in the last lightning storm we had. Fried equipment is Not Good.

Although I was potting plants right up until I could tell the lightning was really close, so.... but I couldn't very well leave the roots bare either.. >_< (the storm came up kind of quickly).

[EricKei]

Quoth DGoddessChardonnay

As long as the rain isn't blowing onto the front porch, that's where you'll find me in my rocking chair, watching.

We used to do that when I was a kid. Mom in the rocker, covered in the biggest quilt we could find, my brother and I alternately running out into the rain and zipping back under cover when a bolt flashed, and Dad just kinda hanging out laughing at all of us ^_^ We called them "Thunderthtorm Parties"