Oh My Stars and Garters

[dancinghorse]

Just a little bit ago, as I was contemplating the Wrath of Moi, we had a brief instance of the Wrath of God. Blinding actinic flash. Clap of thunder so loud and close it felt like a bomb going off. Dogs freaked. Cats disappeared. Horses, being Warhorses, didn't seem to mind too much.

I still have a headache from it. And no, there aren't any flames or any signs of emergency action, which there would be if, say, somebody's propane tank had blown up. This was good old hot air meets cold air go boom.

YOW.

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[windrose.livejournal.com]

Gracious! When I was a kid, I had a thunderboomer like that go off right above my head. The skies were overcast and threatening rain. My mom and I were hurrying from the grocery store to the car when this big BOOM went off. It was so loud we wound up on our knees with our hands over our heads, and so did everyone else in the parking lot. It sounded--and felt--like a bomb had exploded. I'll never forget it.

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

All's quiet now. In spite of downpours, we didn't get that much rain. Horses seem content; nobody's wet or cold. Dogs are in (as they've been for most of the evening), which makes them happy.

It's been A Day. In a way I feel as if that clap of thunder got rid of bad stuff. I fell over for a while, and woke up in a much calmer mood.

[smoemeth.livejournal.com]

Yow!!!

That happened to us once, shortly after we moved into this apartment. It was about 3:30 in the morning, and suddenly out of nowhere there was a wall-rattling *BOOM*!!! Both Rob and I jumped out of bed and I ripped our bedroom door open to face Tamar running out of her room, and at the same time all three of us said, "What the f___ was that?!?"

It wasn't even raining, but it was clear that lightning had just hit the courtyard. Needless to say, we didn't get much more sleep that night...

[writerkatie.livejournal.com]

Yowza! We got a brief thunder-bumper, but nothing came close, thank heavens.

I'll always remember the time lightning struck our next door neighbors' when I was a kid. It was the middle of the night, and I think we all woke up in mid-air, shocked right out of sleep and bed.

Glad you and the herd are all right!

Katie

[larryhammer]

Lightning struck the telephone pole that feeds us power last summer. Pure luck on my part that I was looking right at it. Curiously, lightning at 15 yards away is nowhere near as dramatic as from 150 yards. Too intense to really register? Under the directed cylinder of sound? Not sure. Certainly I missed most of the brightness because it was cut off by the eave.

---L.

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

Lightning once struck outside the room my mom and I were sitting in, hit the tv in front of the window, then arced through the room and blew out the lamp on the table between us.

Maine has dramatic lightning, though it's not known for it. My dad has even seen ball lightning on the lake in the summer.

I never did find a sign of the lightning strike, so it must have hit somewhere south of here. Sure was loud.

[sfmarty.livejournal.com]

And the newspapers go hysterical if lightening and thunder comes within hearing distance here. I do remember some spectacular shows in New York tho.