To be scared of a thunderstorm

[yummymummy1920]

Down in the north west we've got a very heavy and loud thunderstorm.. But it's literally the first one in my whole life I've ever been on my own through and I'm shaking ..
Sky has gone down and I can't get a signal for the digital tv either so I'm sat in silence.. Can all you lovely people give me a distraction please?

North West here too and last night's storm was almost biblical!!

I don't mind storms (so long as I am not walking through a forest at the time, and that has happened on several occasions) but I used to be friends with an elderly lady who was. In every other way she was totally down to earth and thoroughly sensible; however her mother had been afraid of storms and whenever there was one she went and hid in a cupboard and took her DD (my friend) with her. For a while I lived with this friend and whenever there was a storm she took a chair and sat in the cupboard under the stairs and I used to sit on the other side of the door and talk to her to keep her company.

For those who asked .. I don't know what it was about last nights I have never been bothered by them before but I have always been in the house with someone else .. It was probably panic in case something happened or we got flooded (living in a ditch at the bottom of a hill happens a lot)

I don't like them when I am at home because there is a row of trees next to my house and I'm not keen on the idea that one could get struck my lightning and hit the house. For the same reason, I don't like high winds. Sitting in the car would not help that although of course if the car itself got struck it would be fine (if somewhat loud!)

However, where I live there seems to be a bit of a "thunderstorm bypass" and they seem to go to the side of us rather than directly overhead. It has been about a decade since we had a really bad storm here.

I don't mind storms if I am elsewhere eg in the office or at someone else's house. I've been in a plane that was struck my lightning on its approach to land. Everything was fine.

BIWI - oh dear, sorry, I didn't mean to make it sound like I thought you thought people who were scared were being unreasonable (& here we have the makings of an excellent early C20 farce: I move that it involve comedy facial hair, mostly because there was a man in my ballet class today who seemed to be trying to channel his inner 1940s fighter pilot via the medium of a dubious moustache... mind you, he'd apparently also regressed to Infant School vest+pants PE kit [even grimmer than how my body responds to storms, desperately need some brainbleach] AND was trying out a pseudo-Rambo!headband look with a bandana ). My leaps are truly impressive though. I should probably try to film myself through a few storms, edit it all together, then claim it is Art. Might need to tidy my bedroom first though...

Still no storm lurking in this corner of SE London. Cats are in a serious grump as they're too hot. I have Spoiled My Tea by getting vegan frozen yoghurt on the way home from ballet... Tut.