I felt like Chicken Little !

[KICKSTART]

Snoozing away last night , dog either side of the bed when ...........BANG almighty ! I sat up ..was i dreaming? No the loudest thunder storm ever ! One of my dogs did his best Scooby- Doo impersonation and nearly ended up sat on top of my head , quaking away ..he hates thunder. Looked at the time  4.05am ! another two loud crashes ,had the dog trying to get under my duvet ..bless him . The other still fast asleep (nothing bothers her).Then the rain started . So i decided to get up and make a cuppa, might as well till it passed. Now am i a freak or does anyone else like standing outside in the rain on a humid night? I got my cup of tea, the thunder had stopped and i went and stood outside. It was heaven , so cooling ! I ended up not going back to bed , a D day anyway ! I wish i had im shattered now ! On the up side both dogs are snoring away !!!!

[texasstyle]

We have had a couple of good thunderstorms here too. (PA, USA) Just the other night there were 7o mile an hour winds that came in with a storm along with buckets of rain. Like a hurricane! We were watching the baseball game when it hit. The dugout filled with a few inches of rain in just a few minutes. They put a giant tarp on the field to protect and the wind blew the tarp off along with the golf cart-jeep thingy that  was holding it down. Thw weather sure has been crazy across the planet. HHmmm.... lol

[jbeany]

Some of my best memories of my grandfather are sitting with him on his huge covered porch, swaying in the porch swing and watching the thunderheads rolling in from the distant Great Lakes.  The lightening was better than fireworks any day. Sometimes the rain poured down so hard it would bounce back up onto the porch, wetting us from the bottom up.

I remember sitting with him watching for a funnel cloud during a tornado warning, but my spoil-sport mother dragged me down to the basement, even if she couldn't get my grandfather to go, too!

[natnnnat]

There is no doubt at all that standing in rain is utterly delightful, if its not cold.  I remember in Darwin, when the monsoon came after months of humidity, how utterly delightful that was.  Once Christmas when we were kids, I remember the rain belting and bucketing down, flooding the streets... sitting in the gutters with my brother and feeling the water pulling our legs with the current.  They were clean gutters, okay.  And I also remember as a young adult, going to parties in Darwin in the wet season, with armchairs and chairs out under the trees, lights strung in the branches of a huge old fig, and the rain coming on and off during the night.  We stayed sitting in the rain, waving our booze and cigarettes about (that was back when we all seemed to smoke) and ranting about poetry and politics. 

[kitkatz]

I laughed at your description of the dog until I cried!   Lordy, I have had dogs like that!

[Jean]

Theres not a whole lot of things better than being the only person awake in the world, a hot cup of tea, and the rain pouring down outside. The thunder and lighteneing are an added bonus. I miss those days. Here in Ca, the rain is kind of on the wimpy side.

[jennyc]

Love it. ESP when the rain Patters on a tin roof (or drums hard)

[AIRon]

I wish it rained like that here, California weather is very mild compared to the rest of the country. Monsoon season in the ROK is very impressive, it rained like hell for days at a time and it came down hard.

[Poppylicious]

We haven't had a single thunderstorm this year in East Anglia.  It's quite annoying; Blokey loves them and I tolerate them (don't like the thunder, love the lightning ... for some reason my pretty little head thinks that the thunder is more dangerous).  Our first night here, sleeping on the living room floor five years ago, we had a really impressive thunder and lightning storm with lashings of rain.  I'd really like a storm; it might clear the air.