Absolutely love 'em. “Outside” is the porch, mind you.
We love them. We always go outside and watch. Our daughter and I usually come back in soaking wet from playing in the rain. That tends to take 40 years off my age.
Now, it’s a different situation when I’m in a moving vehicle. I’ve been in about 6 car accidents, and all of them were in the rain. I can be found in the passenger seat, grabbing the nearest “oh-shit-we’re-going-to-die” handhold until the rain is over.
Yeah, “outside” is the porch. The dog feels somewhat differently - he’s really more afraid of the rain than the thunder and such. We love 'em, though.
Yeah, I’ll concede the moving-vehicle exception. I hate driving in bad weather.
I usually find violent thunderstorms fairly exhilarating–if I am safely inside. If you can hear the thunder, you are within striking distance of lightning.
A good hurricane can also be enjoyable, even if there is not much thunder & lightning. (There is some.) Note: Never ride out a storm if you’re within range of storm surge…
I love them but the cats freak!
Love them. Love playing in the rain. My daughter and I used to pretend we were goddesses during storms. We’d hold our arms out, spin around and command the wind or sing for the rains to come. It was like magic when the drops started falling.
Love them—if I’m safe from them. Don’t like driving in heavy rain, for instance.
Big fan (tho I definitely like to hear my sump working.)
House got hit by lightning once. Not much damage other than a hole in the roof and a couple of fried TVs.
In college one summer I had a room on the top floor of a house, that was pretty much all windows on 3 sides. Used to LOVE it when a huge thunderboomer would hit…
I used to live in the Midwest, now I live near Seattle, where a “severe thunderstorm” might have a single lightning strike. I haven’t seen a real thunderstorm in years, and I miss them.
But not enough to return to Minnesota winters.
Trained WX spotter here.
Lightning and thunder - cool
Heavy rain - as long as the basement is dry, OK
Stong winds - I’m worried about trees /branches damaging the house
Hail (bigger than 1 cm) - start worrying about tornadoes
wall cloud - keep a lookout
rotating wall cloud - head for basement
Brian
LOVE them when I am on vacation in someone else’s house or an inn of some sort. Here at home the dog is afraid, the power invariably goes out and they can’t ever manage to get it back on for at least two hours, heavy limbs fall from our many trees onto things, and I worry that a whole tree will fall on the house. Thus, here at home I prefer my storms coming from my iTouch while I have the noise-canceling earbuds in as I fall asleep, putting me in the middle of it without it actually being a threat.
I used to love storms. The older I get, the more upsetting I find them. Now, all I can imagine is a tree falling, or the roof leaking, or something catching fire, or someone dying.
I always like a good storm at night. Of course, a good TStorm brings out the monsters that live in the couch, and so my dog has to go behind the couch and protect me from them…
I love them, and I go out in them. Ditto for hurricanes, though I do get back into a safety zone before the wind actually lifts me off my feet. Leaning forward and having it hold you up is way cool, however, and not worth missing.
I love them (when I am safe at home). But if they happen late at night I always sleep through them though - I am a heavy sleeper. Then I feel bad the next morning when everyone talks about the huge storm we had last night.
Age has convinced you that someday you will die. It did it to me as well. Stupid entropy. :mad:
Another SkyWarn spotter (and ham radio local net ops) checking in (heh). I love storms and go into full geek mode. I have custom web pages and Google Earth pulling radar data off of the NWS web site, radio on for taking reports and TweetDeck open for reports from places too distant for my radio.
Yeah. We’ll all die and all roofs leak eventually.
Stupid universe.
I know this is tongue-in-cheek, but it doesn’t seem like only young people love thunderstorms.
I’m still trying to understand why some people love thunderstorms. I spend the whole winter cowering. I’d love to learn how it’s done.