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glider18
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11 Jul 2011, 7:19 pm

I love thunderstorms. There is something about the coziness of one's home during a storm that feels good. My earliest memory is a storm. I was laying on the center section of our sectional couch---Mom was on one end and Dad on the other. It was late at night. The storm was terrible and the electric went out. It was pitch black except for the near constant lightning. The three of us slept the night on the couch. When I was a child I explained this memory to my parents, and they said there was only one time we slept on the couch---when I was around six months old during a terrible storm.

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11 Jul 2011, 7:38 pm

Thunderstorms allow the tension and humidity in the air to dissipate.
This is good for digestive release!
What I hate is the waiting.
Especially when the storm (in my colon?) doesn't break.

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11 Jul 2011, 10:10 pm

I love thunderstorms. I am quite annoyed that they rarely occur where I now live. I especially like to be in the eye of a hurricane.

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11 Jul 2011, 10:34 pm

I love thunderstorms.... you ought to experience one at 10,000 feet! Best one I ever enjoyed, was in the Snowy Range in WY. *WOW*, you could FEEL the reverberations and the air smelled so goood

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11 Jul 2011, 10:37 pm

OddFiction wrote:

Thunderstorms allow the tension and humidity in the air to dissipate.
This is good for digestive release!

What I hate is the waiting.
Especially when the storm (in my colon?) doesn't break.

What I like is the cool air that follows them.

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11 Jul 2011, 10:50 pm

It´s thundering right now, and I am going cycling! Gotta love it...

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11 Jul 2011, 11:46 pm

I used to be terrified to the point of shaking intensely. Now I comfort my girlfriend who is scared and take photos lol.

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12 Jul 2011, 12:04 am

People, this will scare the crap out of you. I wish i was there

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQS4gyipGLw&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

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12 Jul 2011, 12:07 am

I love storms! Have for most of my life. and I used to live for Severe Weather, too! :thumleft: :thumright:

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12 Jul 2011, 12:17 am

bucephalus wrote:

People, this will scare the crap out of you. I wish i was there

Lightning is weird when it strikes that close. It sounds less like lightning and more like a bomb going off.

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12 Jul 2011, 12:24 am

glider18 wrote:

Does that mean u remember something from when u were only 6 months old?? Fascinating!

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12 Jul 2011, 12:25 am

I love storms so much I've begun recording them on my new camera any time I can.

Here's a good storm I watched on the first day of summer this year while visiting my parents in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Be sure to turn up the volume ALL THE WAY and set to 720p HD full screen mode (if your connection speed will allow it). If the volume is up you can hear the distant thunder booming continuously over the noise of birds and traffic. This was a severe storm with rotation, damaging winds, and large hail. It weakened a lot before getting to my location though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL_jlkxGkao

Here is another stormy day on the road trip across the country. There was a really beautiful sunset directly through the base of a massive cumulonimbus cloud right in front of us on the highway. Spectacular. At the end I also captured the sound of rain and thunder later that night.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlJ1lxkBa3I

Again, turn up the volume and watch in 720p full screen mode for the full effect.

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12 Jul 2011, 1:08 am

bucephalus wrote:

People, this will scare the crap out of you. I wish i was there

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQS4gyipGLw&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

It's been pretty dry around here lately. I'm starting to forget what rain feels like.

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12 Jul 2011, 1:32 am

Marshall, excellent quality videos there, I like the one with the sunset

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12 Jul 2011, 1:40 am

bucephalus wrote:

Marshall, excellent quality videos there, I like the one with the sunset

Thanks. Glad you liked it. I've never seen lightning hitting the ground in front of the sunset like that before. It was a special moment to experience. I tried to capture some good thunder boomers as well.

I want to start a new storm appreciation thread where people can post videos and pictures of all kinds of weather. I'm too tired to do it at the moment though. Maybe tomorrow. I don't know if there's as big a weather geek as me on here.

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12 Jul 2011, 3:13 am

PaleBlueDotty wrote:

Arian wrote:

I absolutely love them! I actually get high watching them, (I assume from all the adreneline I'm generating

). But yes, ever since I was little, me and my mum have been watching storms together. Even though we live apart, we still phone each other when a storm's on, just to say how marvellous it is :lol:

Arian wrote:

Oh and... I go out and dance in the rain when the mood takes me. I'd prefer to do it naked, but I don't think my neighbours would like that . Must be an instinctive getting-back-to-nature thing

I understand where you are coming from

Glad to find a fellow spirit! :wink:

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