Excellent! Thunderstorms!

[Ratzy]

I love thunderstorms, and from what I can smell, there is going to be one on in 30 minutes to 2 hours ( weird, I can smell them coming )! Just saw some lightning and heard some thunder so......

 

[Chaos_1.0]

I know what you mean.The weather here in Texas is so much different from home in California. Here it is obvious when it is going to rain cause it gets cloudy and really windy. At home it just randomly with rain and not very hard. Here it rains super hard and then stops. I also really like thunder and lightning.

 

[antoinette]

I love it when it rains here, we also have big heavy thunder storms, with lots of thunder and lightening.

Mishka gets a little confused, I taught her to say, mommy the boom booms are gone.
When she hears the thunder starting she says, the boom booms are gone. I am now teaching her to say the boom booms are coming now now.
I wonder if she will get it in the right order one day........you never know

 

[Von1983]

I love thunder and lightening too!

Thankfully none of my brood bother a jot!

Except Boots the dog.....

The second it starts up she paws to get out.

You will see her through the window prancing into the middle of the garden, stopping, looking at the sky, barking the bark she uses when Olly the other dog is annoying her to tell the sky to BE QUIET! Waits for the rumble to go away and then pads in, satisfied!

Next round of thunder, we repeat the process.....

lol!

 

[Ratzy]

The storm finished last night . Good while it lasted. The budgies are fine with it and I went on a creature hunt. Found a tree-frog in the toilet and finally discovered what makes the webs on the windows.
I have an emergency now! Scary Hairy has escaped.
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He found his way into the shower room and dropped onto my towel!!! BTW, he's about the size of my dad's hand!!

 

[antoinette]

The storm finished last night . Good while it lasted. The budgies are fine with it and I went on a creature hunt. Found a tree-frog in the toilet and finally discovered what makes the webs on the windows.
I have an emergency now! Scary Hairy has escaped.
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He found his way into the shower room and dropped onto my towel!!! BTW, he's about the size of my dad's hand!!

Happy the storm is over and "everyone" is fine
Sorry but Ratzy I don't think I will visit you in the near future
Scary Hairy has escaped

 

[Ratzy]

Awwww . Why not? Honestly, the only things I have in my room now are my pet stick insects, because Scary Hairy escaped and the chicks I'm raising are outside now. Apart from the odd white-tail and red-back, of course, but I've only ever kept one of them as a pet.

 

[bogo1]

Glad you enjoyed the storm.I don't think I could handle a "scary Harry" or "hairy ". I am a wimp, Ratzy! I run into those big camel spiders sometimes and one of my assistant claims I turn white and green simultaneously which clearly can't be right! And Von, when it thunders one of my dogs slinks into our bed and shakes and whimpers. Can Boots do a mental health house call?

 

[Chris Winkler]

Thunder was the first time Echo said anything to me in content! He was about 10 months old and after several cracks of thunder he said "what was that" I almost fell out of my chair... :bigeyes: So I said thunder after a few of the cracks and ever since when there is a storm he will tell me it's thunder! :umbrella:

 

[nofearengineer]

I used to love storms too. Then two things happened.

While delivering pizzas one night (back in college) I got caught dead center in an F2 tornado. I truly thought that was going to be the end of me. While I grabbed the seat of my truck for about 90 seconds (seemed more like hours), the wind ripped my headliner out. (it's the fabric on the underside of your car top...both of my windows were down...no A/C in my ol' beater truck.) The truck tried to tip over several times, but thankfully...did not.

The other thing is, I became a homeowner. Now all I see when I look at a storm cloud is repair bills and insurance claims. It really changes your perspective on things.

 

[lisamarie973]

ACCKKK!!! I'm terrified of spiders AND I'm even MORE terrified of thunder storms (go figure, I live in Florida, the lightening capital of the WORLD) I never used to be scared, however, when I was a child, my father drilled into my head how DANGEROUS lightening was and don't wash your hands right now and don't put that umbrella up in this storm and so on and so forth. Then one time I was outside my home, planting flowers, it was just barely drizzling, but it WAS lightening out (very common) while crouched down burying a potted flower lightening struck SO close to where I was that the area that I had JUST planted caught fire (small area) that never seemed to turn orange or red, it was BLUE flames coming up off the ground. SCARED the heebie jeebies outta me! Ever since then, I have been completely terrified and in fact run for cover every time. If I'm driving, I pull over and CRY with my arms up and over my ducking head until it's over. If I'm outside, I wait till it's in between strikes and RUN into the house, but before grabbing the METAL doorknob, check to be sure another isn't about to strike, then curl up in a ball on the couch until it's over!!!

 

[Pheonix Rising]

Lisa I'm glad I'm not the only one who hates it it totally freaks me out which is hard when your trying to tell your kids not to worry about it lol

As for spiders well ratzy your ever so welcome to keep him over there and well away from me horrible things they are yuck yuck yuck