Stormy weather, loud thunder, I cannot sleep

BlunderWoman

BlunderWoman

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The thunder is so loud & lightning keeps flashing. It's kinda scary. I was wishing someone was here. Then I thought how horrible I must be for wanting someone else to be here when I myself am a little scared LOL.gif
 

I'm in that dark red zone between Cleburne and Arlington. Where are ya'll?
 

I really love thunderstorms.
OK, so they can be a little scary at times, but the sheer power of them makes me feel a little humble.

We had a tree, not six feet from our home in Florida, that was hit by lightening.
... It went straight through the tree, then through the roots.
It killed that tree as dead as a dodo.

There was a 90-year old lady just next door, and her house was hit.
It blew all of the electrics to smithereens.

Now, that must have been very frightening for her.
 
Hanfonius said:
I really love thunderstorms.
OK, so they can be a little scary at times, but the sheer power of them makes me feel a little humble.

We had a tree, not six feet from our home in Florida, that was hit by lightening.
... It went straight through the tree, then through the roots.
It killed that tree as dead as a dodo.

There was a 90-year old lady just next door, and her house was hit.
It blew all of the electrics to smithereens.

Now, that must have been very frightening for her.
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Well around here they are often accompanied by tornadoes & flash floods so your house splinters into bits or floats away
 
I have had a fear of storms since being stopped on the road with the storm wreaking havoc all around. Lighting shook the car as it touched across the road and you could feel the force even inside the vehicle. Two people died in that storm that day.
 
The news reports about the Houston indicate the worst flood damage in that area's history....as much as 17" of rain in the past couple of days. It will take years to recover from such an event...much like New Orleans is still feeling the effects of Katrina.
 
I love a good lightning show and feel very safe watching from my apartment window - we have some real doozies here, especially in the summer. Of course we are informed that something is on the way and I don't go outside at that time.
 
Houston has had several deaths from this rain. One of them a young 25 year old girl who accidentally drove into 30 foot deep water. A worker saw it and tried to get to her in time but couldn't. Very sad. So many homes destroyed from water. In Dallas the lake came up and over the roads. Several major freeways closed no one could be sure where it was safe to drive. One police officer said he was only going 20 mph when he hit mud that was totally covering a service road and lost complete control of his car. Overturned 18 wheelers. It was flash flooding all over the place out here. I feel sorry for anyone who might have been needing an ambulance quickly. It's supposed to rain even more late tonight /early morning. No..rain is not fun to watch when it gets deadly and dangerous. This is a video of a guy driving during the same kind of rains only 2 miles from my house last year. This is how it gets when it's raining heavy like this. The video pauses..so you have to wait a little for it to show all of it..

 
I used to feel the same way living in a house without a basement, but surrounded by trees, in Tornado Alley.

Now I may just have an apartment in a HUD building but I get to sit by the window with the lights off at night and watch lightning during nighttime thunderstorms, and on the rare occasion when a tornado warning is on I sit and watch it tracked on TV, while the lights and cable stay on, and this huge building stands sturdy and secure. Even if a tornado came down my street and took the windows out, I could be in an interior closet within seconds (might take longer to round up the cats).
 
Guitarist said:
I used to feel the same way living in a house without a basement, but surrounded by trees, in Tornado Alley.
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Yes the tornadoes aren't funny especially when it's pitch black outside & you are receiving alerts on your phone telling you to seek shelter at a safe place but you can't because you are also getting flash flood warnings telling you not to drive at the very same time.
 
Redd said:
I have had a fear of storms since being stopped on the road with the storm wreaking havoc all around. Lighting shook the car as it touched across the road and you could feel the force even inside the vehicle. Two people died in that storm that day.
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That must have been very scary Redd
 
So far we've only had rain, no serious storms, which is unusual for Oklahoma. My back yard resembles a lake. In fact, some long legged lake birds have landed to try out the fishing. We got it coming again late tonight, mild thunderstorms with rain. You guys in north Texas stay safe.
 
drifter said:
So far we've only had rain, no serious storms, which is unusual for Oklahoma. My back yard resembles a lake. In fact, some long legged lake birds have landed to try out the fishing. We got it coming again late tonight, mild thunderstorms with rain. You guys in north Texas stay safe.
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You take care too drifter. I'm glad to hear you haven't had any twisters. Oklahoma & north Texas both get so many. We didn't get any this time either..knock wood. One year I watched one down the road. It scared the dickens out of me, then it went another way. I felt like Dorothy :D The rain is supposed to start up again at 5 am.
 

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