Loud Lightening????

[susandennis]

We rarely get thunderstorms here in Seattle. I mean I probably don't need both hands to count the number of times I have heard thunder in the 12 years I have lived here. But, when we do, it's hilarious. Today, apparently, we had some electrical stuff going on. The local NBC evening news anchor just announced:

"The lightening was so loud that some people apparently dived under desks when they heard it."

Those are some good ears on those folks!

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[pheon.livejournal.com]

One of my wife's major complaints about living in the Northwest --- one of her few --- is that there are so few thunderstorms. She grew up in Ohio and loves thunderstorms. She wants her thunder and lightning.

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[susandennis]

I am totally with her on this... I can't even hear the rain in my house most of the time. I do have a CD of rain and thunder (I suspect it may have lightening on it, too but I can't hear that...) I play when I get desperate.

I lived places in the South that had a good thunderstorm every single night in the summer at dusk. You could set your clock by it. Lasted about a half hour.

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[pheon.livejournal.com]

Our previous roof was galvanized metal and we could really hear the rain. Now that we have a new roof, we often don't even know it's raining. Not acceptable. Our current plan is to hang a pie plate outside under the eaves to catch the sound.

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[minimac.livejournal.com]

Yep...love those summer afternoon thunderstorms!

[mostcurious.livejournal.com]

Those folks do have awfully good hearing! How funny!

[dlanor.livejournal.com]

Media people who talk like that drive me crazy. They are supposed to know better, but most do not.