EatingPoetry
Velociraptor
Joined: 28 Jun 2007
Age: 57
Gender: Female
Posts: 407
Location: Inside me 'ead, all alone.
20 Aug 2007, 1:56 pm
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20 Aug 2007, 4:19 pm
I've been struck twice by lightning, so I get a little nervous like one of those hyper small dogs when a storm is approaching. I constantly peep out the window to see what it's doing out there. A couple weeks ago I had just stepped out on the porch when a bolt of lightning struck in the woods in front of my place. Not only did it scare me, but I had this strange pain behind my hearing aid where it touches against the skull. So I think I picked up a little voltage. Last summer a bolt of lightning came through the curtained window, right by me and struck the fuse box. At this point I'm beginning to think God is after me! Oh! Also a couple weeks ago I saw my first ever sighting of what is called Ball Lightning.
Yep, it scared me good!Bloody hell Ticker I'd be mentally scarred for life.
20 Aug 2007, 4:27 pm
I feel a little out of place here being terrified of storms... 
They really do scare the hell out of me... my achilles heel if you will... lol
I don't feel ashamed of my intense fear of them because everyone has a big fear of something... 
except perhaps explorers...
EatingPoetry
Velociraptor
Joined: 28 Jun 2007
Age: 57
Gender: Female
Posts: 407
Location: Inside me 'ead, all alone.
20 Aug 2007, 4:37 pm
They really do scare the hell out of me... my achilles heel if you will... lol
I don't feel ashamed of my intense fear of them because everyone has a big fear of something...
except perhaps explorers...Don't feel weird! It's natural to be afraid of thunderstorms. Lightning can KILL you. They say if you can even hear thunder, even if you don't see lightning, you better get inside, because you're in danger.
I myself like thunderstorms from a healthy distance, like inside my house, away from an open window. Lightning is nothing to play around with. Ma Nature gave us fear for a good reason. Your fear is good judgement!
20 Aug 2007, 5:02 pm
Anie
Yellow-bellied Woodpecker
Joined: 11 Apr 2007
Gender: Female
Posts: 57
Location: NYC metro, a majickal place
20 Aug 2007, 10:43 pm
Absolutely. I get all kinds of high in the presence of that kind of power.
One of my goals in life is to see a tornado.
20 Aug 2007, 10:56 pm
21 Aug 2007, 1:07 am
Thunderstorms are my version of crack 
. Frequent close lightning where you hear the sizzle gives me happy vibes. Too bad thunderstorms are pathetic in Seattle. Cold ocean makes the air too stable for those highly electrified storms you get east of the Rockies. I've been in thunderstorm withdrawal for almost a year now.
I'm left to watch weather porn on youtube 
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(Warning! - some bad language possible)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpHUBcUrR30[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn65RFvJKnk&mode=related&search=[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdp8oOQTrxw[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rfh_PpBut9s[/youtube]
21 Aug 2007, 5:29 am
lol even watching storms on the computer makes me nervous... what the hell!? My fear reaches illogical status. It can't kill me if it's on youtube.
21 Aug 2007, 5:36 am
Thunderstorms are sexy 
Sadly, we rarely get them here.
21 Aug 2007, 12:02 pm
Perhaps I fear the 'attacking approach play' of lightning. It doesn't defend it's an all out attack thing... I'm the opposite I'm 'defensive patient...' in my own subtle way this conjurs up an attack that I use after a carefully planned strategy, so I'm not all about defending.
lol or perhaps not... :/
21 Aug 2007, 8:33 pm
It can't kill me if it's on youtube. Sorry about that. I should have put a warning on the second one. At least to turn the volume down before you watch it.
Just watch the last video. It's not scary. No close thunder, just interesting clouds and mostly distant lightning... and hilarious dialog. Part of the fun of watching amateur storm chase videos on youtube is the ridiculous dialog.
"ooooooohh look at that... loooook at that... omg its rotating... see that rotation... oooohhh"
That's why I call it weather porn.
23 Aug 2007, 11:42 am
It can't kill me if it's on youtube. Sorry about that. I should have put a warning on the second one. At least to turn the volume down before you watch it.
Just watch the last video. It's not scary. No close thunder, just interesting clouds and mostly distant lightning... and hilarious dialog. Part of the fun of watching amateur storm chase videos on youtube is the ridiculous dialog.
"ooooooohh look at that... loooook at that... omg its rotating... see that rotation... oooohhh"
That's why I call it weather porn.
lol don't be sorry it ain't your fault I'm a bloody coward when it comes to storms.
It's very strange how this stuff makes me shake in fear yet tricky unpredictable social stuff I take head on even if it feels like I'm being impaled on a bloody great spear, and yet even when it's that tricky I still come out alive with some dignity intact... yet storms... ha! Scare the hell outta me.
21 Dec 2008, 1:34 am
SG bumps another thread.
I love thunderstorms. They used to scare me because they were so loud but then I got used to them and now I love them.
