Thunderstorms - do you like them - or do you fear them?

[TheParser]

Some info:

Thunderstorm - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

(1) I fear them for one reason: electrical outages.

(2) No electricity for the refrigerator or computer or gas oven or our rooms.

(3) Here in the United States, many electrical wires are still above ground, so if a tree knocks them down, a part of the city is plunged into darkness.

 

[jc456]

I used to stand out in them.




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Me too, until I was outside during one and my hair raised on my arms right before a strike, I got under cover before it hit. Wow, what a feeling.

 

[Crick]

Some info:

Thunderstorm - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I like them. I grew up in Kansas and then moved to Florida, both thunderstorm capitols. It seems amazing that more people aren't struck. When the TV weathermen could map individual strikes on their maps, it got really impressive. I remember a weather guy showing how one stroke they detected traveled horizontally about 40 miles before hitting the ground in an area that would have had clear blue skies at the time. Wouldn't that make you just out of your shorts.

 

[jc456]

I like them. I grew up in Kansas and then moved to Florida, both thunderstorm capitols. It seems amazing that more people aren't struck. When the TV weathermen could map individual strikes on their maps, it got really impressive. I remember a weather guy showing how one stroke they detected traveled horizontally about 40 miles before hitting the ground in an area that would have had clear blue skies at the time. Wouldn't that make you just out of your shorts.

not every thunderbolt makes it to the ground. know something for fking once.

 

[Zebra]

we have one now

 

[The Irish Ram]

I used to stand out in electrical storms

My mother would have ripped your arm off to get you into her bedroom to hide until the lightening was over.

 

[The Irish Ram]

My Dad on the other hand, had just stepped out of his car when a bolt of lightening hit a cherry tree a foot away. I was watching him out of the picture window, and everything went pure white for a second. When I could see him again, he was brushing wood chips out of his hair. Nothing fazed him.

 

[Woodznutz]

I used to stand out in them.




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I went out into one once just to experience it. It was a rush. I think I was about 7 or 8.

 

[jc456]

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Me too! As I got older less. I did experience hair raising on my arms once and smelled an odd odor and I bolted. Scawwie

 

[Leo123]

Anvill lightning can travel dozens or even hundreds of miles away from a storm. It's traditionally described as a bolt 'out of the blue.'

 

[hjmick]

 

[ding]

Love watching them from a protected location. From an unprotected location, not so much.

 

[jc456]

Love watching them from a protected location. From an unprotected location, not so much.

I love the look out in the open.

 

[skye]

Both, like them... and fear them as mentioned above because of the electrical outages.

 

[toobfreak]

Thunderstorms - do you like them​

I do my best every chance I get to go out on my tall hill where I live and stand in the rain during thunderstorms holding a long metal rod up high to attract lightning.

I have a long heavy metal cable run over from my neighbor's house who is a big Biden supporter I tie it to. I figure it'll result in one of two possibilities:

1. Lightning will strike after the cable is connected burning his house down - a win/win for me.
2. Lightning will strike before the cable is connected electrocuting me - also a win/win for me as then I will no longer have to put up with democrats, leftists and progressives.

Either way I win.

 

[toobfreak]

My mother would have ripped your arm off to get you into her bedroom to hide until the lightening was over.

Here is another:

 

[toobfreak]

Me too! As I got older less. I did experience hair raising on my arms once and smelled an odd odor and I bolted. Scawwie

Good that you did. One of the signs that a lightning bolt is about to strike in your immediate area is a build-up of static charges which you can feel as it makes your arm hair stand on end.

That is a good time to pitch to the ground laying flat and pray you don't get hit.

Before lightning strikes, there is a build-up of a cloud of electrons (or electron holes) at either end of the points of greatest attraction as they seek to find a way of meeting in the middle, overcoming the intervening dielectric barrier of the atmosphere and completing the circuit.

It is like the inside of a giant diode.

 

[toobfreak]

Anvill lightning can travel dozens or even hundreds of miles away from a storm. It's traditionally described as a bolt 'out of the blue.'

Good point. As the storm moves across the land, it strips and accumulates charges from the ground. It is always a calculated risk depending on location and activity, but the general rule of thumb to remember is that if you can hear thunder, no matter how far away it sounds, you are already within the potential strike zone.

I was out once watching an electrical storm and though it was quiet and still with no wind, thunder nor rain, it was all cloud-to-cloud lightning. You could watch lights go across the sky from cloud to cloud to cloud. One cloud to cloud discharge would trigger another, and they traveled all about the sky dancing and flashing in rapid succession.

 

[jc456]

Good that you did. One of the signs that a lightning bolt is about to strike in your immediate area is a build-up of static charges which you can feel as it makes your arm hair stand on end.

That is a good time to pitch to the ground laying flat and pray you don't get hit.

Before lightning strikes, there is a build-up of a cloud of electrons (or electron holes) at either end of the points of greatest attraction as they seek to find a way of meeting in the middle, overcoming the intervening dielectric barrier of the atmosphere and completing the circuit.

It is like the inside of a giant diode.

Yep, I was at home and went inside

 

[Leo123]

Good that you did. One of the signs that a lightning bolt is about to strike in your immediate area is a build-up of static charges which you can feel as it makes your arm hair stand on end.

That is a good time to pitch to the ground laying flat and pray you don't get hit.

Before lightning strikes, there is a build-up of a cloud of electrons (or electron holes) at either end of the points of greatest attraction as they seek to find a way of meeting in the middle, overcoming the intervening dielectric barrier of the atmosphere and completing the circuit.

It is like the inside of a giant diode.

Yes, you could be in a charged area ready to connect to a streamer from the clouds to a ground charged 'shadow.' You can't see streamers though.