Hate it when the power goes out, but I love storms and have since I was little. My parents always read to us at night, but if there was ever a thunderstorm around bedtime, they skipped the story and instead cracked open the kitchen windows, turned out the lights, and lifted us both up on the counter so we could watch out the front of the house. I still run to the window of my apartment every 5 minutes to gawk at torrential downpours.
I’ve got way too good an imagination; they scare me badly.
Where I live now, we don’t the big bad ones. They call it a thunderstorm if there’s one or two lightning strikes. Of course, now I worry about those strikes starting a wildfire. Happened right when I moved here three years ago, I nearly had to turn around and leave about a week after I arrived.
Fun is thundersnow. That’s some weird shit right there.
Thundersnow - that truly is weird. I think we’ve had it twice in the 20 years I’ve been here. It takes some bizarre weather conditions to get that, if I understand correctly.
To quote one of the Mrs. Ws, rainy days are my glory. More precisely, windy days are my glory, but you usually don’t get that kind of wind without rain. Occasionally, though, around here (about once a year), you will get a dry windstorm, and those I absolutely love: I’ll go outside and just stand in it and revel in it.
I checked off “go outside” in the poll, but by that I mean on the porch (except for the afore-mentioned dry storms). It has to be awfully hot out for me to appreciate getting soaked (though that happens occasionally, too).
I love em. I go stand outside. And I mean way out in the yard sometimes, not just the porch.
Thats one advantage of living in the deep south. If you love weather disaster porn like thunderstorms, floods and hurricanes its the place be.
My brother actually got struck by lighting. Well, pretty close anyway. Got knocked unconsious and had to be taken to the hospital. No apparent long term harm though. Interesting enough it was one of those “where is the lighting and clouds and storm?” scenarios.
Our dog hates any bad weather. I call him our “storm alert shitzhu”. A cloud can pass over the sun, darkening the yard a bit and you’ll see him perk up and look out the window with concern.
I voted “Love them but stay inside”, but actually I hate them, at least near my house.
I’m a Ham radio Operator and have a 70’ tower with antennas mounted. I had a strike on the tower a few years ago and am not anxious for another.
There’s one going on right now, and there was a lightning strike so nearby that I almost thought it was in my front yard.
I’m enjoying it.
I used to love them until they started hurling trees and things at my house and vehicles. Now they make me nervous, they seem to be getting more violent.
Back in Illinois and even in Berlin and in Lugano, Switzerland - we used to get them all the time and I loved them.
Now, living in Las Vegas - well - it is a big deal to get rain, let alone a thunderstorm.
As I mentioned in another thread recently, last time we had a storm and it started to rain, I had to stop my class as the (college) students all got up and went to the window to look at the rain in awe. That should give you an idea of how often it rains here.
Struck by lighting in 59 and 77
Blown away by a tornado in 74 while my 2 kids and I were in the closet, the smell of natural gas leaking gave me enough adrenaline to smash a way out afterwords.
70 -73 many times when flying off shore a wall of storms would move south across the Louisiana delta and if I wanted to not go swimming I had to punch those lines to get to an airport.
My aircraft has been stuck several times in the air.
Never been in an earthquake big enough to notice.
Body surfed off the coast of Florida while an hurricane passed off shore… Got my ass pounded, almost broke my neck getting hammered into the bottom sand head first and came close to drowning. That was in the first 5 minutes so when I was finally able, I got out of there. ( Not one of my smarter days. ) Had a tree get hit and explode about 100 feet from where I was once.
Now a close lightning strike will make me jump no matter how hard I try not to.
Been in some rough weather in sailboats both in the ocean and on lakes. Out in the ocean with no chance of help really tunes up your willingness to prepare before you go out there. Still an attention getting situation…
Lived in Oklahoma for about 54 years and now Arkansas for about 12 so I see and am in a lot of thunder storms.
They are the devil I know. Fun stuff until it isn’t.
A 15-yr-old girl was killed by lightning near here the other day, while swimming at Lake Guntersville.
We spend most of every spring under a tornado watch, but these sudden thunderstorms that pop up in the summer have given me more scares. When there’s a big front moving through, you can see the line of storms on radar well ahead of time and plan to be indoors. But in the summer you’re likely to be out and about and get caught in a very scary storm.
I was at the air show here two summers ago, waiting to see the Blue Angels fly, when a storm blew up and a microburst hit the field and flung some tents around, killing a little boy.
I’m another person with a large tree near the house who half expects it to crash down during the big storms. Also, I live in an area where you can track the path, lot by lot, of the last major tornado by whether the houses are 1968 single-level ranches or two-level homes built in 1990-1991 (Plainfield/Joliet for you local folks).
Despite this, I still love them. From indoors.
I love them but stay inside. I’ll go out in a blizzard or a nor’easter and enjoy the blow, but I get scared of lightning.
Speaking of hail I was at a Grateful Dead concert at Red Rocks in the '80s and one of those summertime Front Range thunderstorms formed over the foothills and came through. The hail was marble-sized and gave us a good knock on the head. We were in the middle of the place and there was nowhere to go so we just covered up however we could and took it. The thunderhead moved over the plains with the setting sun lighting it up. It was awesome. Unfortunately the hail had grown to damaging size by the time the storm got out to the Denver 'burbs.
Just pretend I posted exactly this and we’ll all save some time. 
I love them! They are ‘Nature’s Fireworks’. Oh, to have a garden apartment on top of a hill again and to just open the blinds to the picture windows, with good company, and to just watch lightning strikes off in the distance…
FTR, they are even better at sea. When the Disney Magic barelled thru Hurricane Erin in 2001, it was Mundo Cool!!!
Love them. For some reason, they turn me on. My husband has come to love them when they roll through in the evening, because he almost always gets a piece when they’re raging.
However, earlier this summer our sump pump failed and now there’s this sneaking feeling that my basement is going to flood (we got a new sump pump and it works just fine).