# Thunder? Earthquake? Plane Crash? I just woke up! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 2, 2002, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thunder-earthquake-plane-crash-i-just-woke-up/121994 "2002-08-02T09:39:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![d12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/71c47a/32.png) [@d12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/d12)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thunder-earthquake-plane-crash-i-just-woke-up/121994/1 "2002-08-02T09:39:43Z")
:eek: Help! 8 minutes ago, I was sleeping. 7 minutes ago, I nearly pissed myself. _rumble_ _roar_ I could have sworn a plane was about to crash right by my house. I felt the vibrations from a very close and very loud rumble. The vibrations felt like a minor earthqauke… the rumble like a B52 just did a fly-by withthin 2 feet of my window… Double:eek: I’m usually not scared but I just saw LOTS of lightning out my window… but that rumble, it was just so, unrealistic. It lasted a good 10 seconds too. Oh great, now I’m getting goosebumps. The strangest part is, seems nobody else around here woke up. Am I going crazy? _finishes his iced cappucino and heads back to bed._ _quickly looks under the bed and in the closet_ You can’t rule out tummyaches for the monsters hiding there 😛 Noooo more lightning :eek: ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thunder-earthquake-plane-crash-i-just-woke-up/121994/2 "2002-08-02T09:47:49Z")
Iced cappucino before bed? What the heck do you drink to wake up, then? Petrol? ---
**Author:** ![d12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/71c47a/32.png) [@d12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/d12)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thunder-earthquake-plane-crash-i-just-woke-up/121994/3 "2002-08-02T14:31:01Z")
Pepsi 😃 Now I figure that it was just tunder… None of my windows were open but that was really really scared. I sometimes watch lightning for the hell of it. It has an erie beauty. Last night was just scary though. ---
**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thunder-earthquake-plane-crash-i-just-woke-up/121994/4 "2002-08-02T15:22:50Z")
I love thunderstorms… Two of my favorite memories are: 1. Watching a thunderstorm with my dad on our balcony in Heidelberg, Germany (circa 1986 - we lived there for six years) while drinking delicious Heidelberger Schlossquell Bier and eating saltines with smoked oysters and Tabasco. 2. El Hubbo and I watching a thunderstorm roll from west to east out our living room window with the Minneapolis skyline in the background. Classical music in the background, snuggling… ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thunder-earthquake-plane-crash-i-just-woke-up/121994/5 "2002-08-02T15:49:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by d12 \* > \*\*Help! 8 minutes ago, I was sleeping. 7 minutes ago, I nearly pissed myself. _rumble_ _roar_ I could have sworn a plane was about to crash right by my house. \*\* I once awoke to a similar noise when I was staying in a homless shelter. Took me a while to realize it was just one of the other guys snoring. ---
**Author:** ![Peach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/67e7ee/32.png) [@Peach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peach)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thunder-earthquake-plane-crash-i-just-woke-up/121994/6 "2002-08-02T22:20:35Z")
OMG i had a similar problem not too long ago and I have never been so terrified. I was sleeping (soundly) and b/f was watching the boob tube when i was awakened by the LOUDEST bang and rumble I have ever heard in my life! I jumped up like a scared cat and grabbed my boyfriends arm and screamed. He tells me to calm down, “its just thunder!” Want to know what I thought it was? a nuclear bomb. and being that i was half asleep, I thought my face was melting. It was THE most scary feeling. My first thought was, “they got us” It was awful.