BS: I love to hear thunder and rain

Subject: BS: I love to hear thunder and rain
From: Alice
Date: 13 Aug 09 - 08:48 PM

I'm listening to a rain storm starting, an August evening rain, the drum of raindrops on the roof, the rumble of thunder that grows louder.

It's a visceral feeling in response to the force of nature. It smells good, it feels good to be safe and warm while listing to the rain and thunder. I love it.

Subject: RE: BS: I love to hear thunder and rain
From: Ebbie
Date: 13 Aug 09 - 09:03 PM

Hmmmm. I like rain - but thunder, to me, means electric charges. Lightning frightens me.

Subject: RE: BS: I love to hear thunder and rain
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 13 Aug 09 - 09:13 PM

I like those storms, also. As long as I'm not caught out in them!

Subject: RE: BS: I love to hear thunder and rain
From: frogprince
Date: 13 Aug 09 - 09:14 PM

Don't mind some thunder, don't mind some rain; but it rained about 10 inches in a day here (Southeast Michigan) a couple of days ago. We just had a little extra wet in the funky old carpeting in our basement. But there are several roads washed out in our area, and the Amtrak can't run until they get stable fill in a sinkhole under the tracks just out of town.

Subject: RE: BS: I love to hear thunder and rain
From: Janie
Date: 13 Aug 09 - 10:27 PM

Would like some rain (not 10 inches, though.)   I like thunderstorms that are not dangerously close - but we can often get severe thunderstorms here with cloud-to-ground lightning. When one of those is sitting on top of the house, the heart rate can definitely accelerate.

(North Carolina currently ranks #4 among States for deaths and injuries caused by lightning.)

By-the-by, Dean, Michigan currently rates #2.

Subject: RE: BS: I love to hear thunder and rain
From: Alice
Date: 13 Aug 09 - 10:35 PM

Where is number one?

Subject: RE: BS: I love to hear thunder and rain
From: Alice
Date: 13 Aug 09 - 10:48 PM

Ah, found it, I think... Florida?

Subject: RE: BS: I love to hear thunder and rain
From: Peace
Date: 13 Aug 09 - 10:49 PM

Here ya go.

Subject: RE: BS: I love to hear thunder and rain
From: Peace
Date: 13 Aug 09 - 10:52 PM

Perhaps it's Florida. The data I posted is good to 2003.

Subject: RE: BS: I love to hear thunder and rain
From: Alice
Date: 13 Aug 09 - 10:55 PM

yup, that's the page I found, too.

Subject: RE: BS: I love to hear thunder and rain
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 13 Aug 09 - 11:03 PM

I have a dog that turns to jelly whenever a thunderstorm is within her ability to feel the charge or whatever, much farther than I can hear thunder or see flashes.
She sticks like a leech and trembles all over.

Subject: RE: BS: I love to hear thunder and rain
From: Peace
Date: 13 Aug 09 - 11:06 PM

Bravest dog I ever had did the same. Especially when the floor shook.

Subject: RE: BS: I love to hear thunder and rain
From: jacqui.c
Date: 14 Aug 09 - 05:10 AM

Seamus gets extremely nervous when there's a storm about. I sometimes end up sitting on the floor with him cuddling in.

Must admit, I agree with Alice. There is definitely a visceral pleasure in being indoors when the elements start. Less so if I'm out in it!

Subject: RE: BS: I love to hear thunder and rain
From: gnu
Date: 14 Aug 09 - 06:46 AM

On a warm day, I put on my old sneakers and divest myself of wallet and whatever else should not get wet and stand in the driveway so I can FEEL it too. And it's fun to watch the neighbours point and call to others to "come and see this."

Except the last one, which had pea size hail and an awesome cold wind.

Subject: RE: BS: I love to hear thunder and rain
From: catspaw49
Date: 14 Aug 09 - 08:01 AM

Love it too......One of my fondest memories is sitting on the porch with my Dad as it rained..........And I can think of dozens of other times where the rain has provided something special to a particular memory.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: I love to hear thunder and rain
From: Jeri
Date: 14 Aug 09 - 09:04 AM

I got in trouble once because of a hot spell in spring and a thunderstorm. I love to swim, and I miss it a lot. When this storm happened, I went out and got so drenched it felt like I was swimming in air. I didn't realize I wasn't immortal.

I also love to watch lightening and hear thunder from a safe place, preferably one that still has electricity. (I want to CHOOSE to turn the lights off!)

I get the same feeling when 'snowed in' in winter, but then I worry about what's going to fall off my house or just quit working. (Must remember to buy a generator.) None of that 'cozy-safe inside, fierce outside' feeling is as good without other people around.

Subject: RE: BS: I love to hear thunder and rain
From: frogprince
Date: 14 Aug 09 - 11:08 AM

Saturday night, July 11,2009: We drove the first leg of our journey to a little-known music fest somewhere in Quebec. Got to our motel in Whitby, Ontario, before too late. It was nice and sunny; we got our stuff into the motel, and set out for a walk. Got a few minutes on our way, and the sky started looking...different...; had just turned around when the fire hoses, and hail, hit us. I haven't been drowned like a rat like that for a bunch of years. That hail smarted; I wasn't sure for a bit that one stone hadn't cracked the knuckle of my thumb.
We survived, laughed, and enjoyed the heck out of the trip and the music fest.
                                 Dean

Subject: RE: BS: I love to hear thunder and rain
From: open mike
Date: 14 Aug 09 - 06:32 PM

lightning has a whole different meaning for fire fighters..
and for forest fire victims...it can mean summer work, (gain)
and it can mean extensive losses...

Subject: RE: BS: I love to hear thunder and rain
From: Alice
Date: 14 Aug 09 - 06:40 PM

Yes, I think of forest fires, too, Laurel.

We've been lucky with rain this year. It is the greenest, most humid summer I remember in all my life. The normally dry August tinder is not crispy. We do have pines dying from mountain pine beetle, so that adds to the fuel, but this year we've had rain, rain, rain and the lightning hasn't caused anything uncontrollable so far. Quite unusual.

Subject: RE: BS: I love to hear thunder and rain
From: Peace
Date: 14 Aug 09 - 06:45 PM

We have pine beetle here. too, Alice. Bad news.