# The Thunder Storm Appreciation Thread. Poll **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 16, 2003, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thunder-storm-appreciation-thread-poll/188904 "2003-07-16T16:02:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thunder-storm-appreciation-thread-poll/188904/41 "2003-07-17T06:46:27Z")
Like most transplants from midwest US to northwest US, I miss thunderstorms almost as much as I miss autumn leaves and fresh-picked sweet corn. ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thunder-storm-appreciation-thread-poll/188904/42 "2003-07-17T07:15:16Z")
Wow, I’m surprised how many people like them. So I guess I’m not the only one who dresses in a cape and runs through the streets doing “Night on Bald Mountain” a cappella at the top of my lungs whenever thunder comes, am I? ---
**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thunder-storm-appreciation-thread-poll/188904/43 "2003-07-17T13:35:48Z")
Uhm… yeah, I think you might be, Achernar. 😉 But seriously, I love thunderstorms. Always have. My best friend when I was a kid hated them, so summers were always… Interresting. I sleep like a child when they happen, except one summer about 5 years ago. I was having an entire-season long case of insomnia, and would take night drives to get myself relaxed. There were a lot of thunderstorms that summer, and I took to ‘chasing’ them. Some of 'em were completely amazing. I finally stopped when one night I ended up in a -very- creepy rural town and had no idea where I was… But that’s off topic. Yes on the loving-of-thunderstorms! ---
**Author:** ![lachesis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@lachesis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lachesis)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thunder-storm-appreciation-thread-poll/188904/44 "2003-07-17T13:45:05Z")
**Achernar** , i prefer _Ride of the Valkyries_, myself. 😊 ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thunder-storm-appreciation-thread-poll/188904/45 "2003-07-17T13:50:23Z")
Another lover here, especially the thunder and pouring rain part. The lightning is pretty to watch, but only if I’m safely ensconced inside out of harm’s way. Needless to say, that’s why I have so many compilations of such on CD. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thunder-storm-appreciation-thread-poll/188904/46 "2003-07-17T13:57:29Z")
Absolutely love them. I’ll go stand in the open doorway whenever a thunderstorm hits. I remember doing so at work on September 10, 2001. Ever experience a stormstorm with thunder and lightning? That is awesome! ---
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thunder-storm-appreciation-thread-poll/188904/47 "2003-07-17T14:06:41Z")
Yep, all the time in Kingston when I was there for university. Very cool. K-town the land the weather gods hate. ---
**Author:** ![Antiquarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Antiquarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antiquarian)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thunder-storm-appreciation-thread-poll/188904/48 "2003-07-17T14:15:04Z")
When I was in Iowa on a dig with a national geological survey crew we had a women who had very long hair. She never did much with it except put it in a ponytail and out the back of a ball cap. One day I was looking at her from the bottom of a 10 foot deep ditch. It was begining to rain and we were calling it a day because of the big thunder claps we were seeing. We were out in the middle of a big plain. So anyway I was looking at her passing something up to her when the back of her long hair started to reach for the sky. The static electricity was raising a flag on her hair as a possible place for the lightning to strike. You know the whole “lightning strikes from the ground up thing”. And as she was grabing the shovel I pulled her down, she broke her wrist and the utility truck 20 feet away got struck by lightning. Yes I love storms as well. ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thunder-storm-appreciation-thread-poll/188904/49 "2003-07-17T14:26:09Z")
I love a good storm. I enjoy watching all the lightning and listening to the thunder as the winds whip up and the heavy rains come pouring down. I’ll drop whatever I’m doing (TV, Internet, even work) and go watch the storm. When I first got my video camera I’d take video of the nighttime storms (and then edit out all the blank spots). In the summer a good thunderstorm brings a welcome relief from the heat. We haven’t had too many storms this year, though. It’s been around 100 degrees each day for the past week and we’re overdue for a good storm. ---
**Author:** ![Bruce\_Daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Bruce\_Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Daddy)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thunder-storm-appreciation-thread-poll/188904/50 "2003-07-17T15:41:51Z")
:raises hand: I love the look my cat gives me when it thunders. It’s kind of like “Dude. What the hell was that?” and then he scampers off under the bed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thunder-storm-appreciation-thread-poll/188904.md?page=2)