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To hate thunder and lightning

84 replies

CharlesLeeRay · 24/07/2019 01:16

We have it quite bad here, I hate it and can't sleep!

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Greeborising · 24/07/2019 01:20

It doesn’t frighten me but I can understand why it could.
I love snuggling up in bed when there’s a storm. Listening while you’re safe and cosy

WonkoTheSane42 · 24/07/2019 01:21

Mama Mia.

CharlesLeeRay · 24/07/2019 01:22

@Greeborising it's not that I'm frightened of it as such it's just loud and bright! I feel quite safe. But it's very close to us here, never seen it this close before!

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CharlesLeeRay · 24/07/2019 01:23

Oh and I can't snuggle in this heat!

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CrispbuttyNo1 · 24/07/2019 01:26

I've been watching it for the last hour. From the safety of my bed.

VenusTiger · 24/07/2019 01:33

It’s just starting here.

DontCallMeShitley · 24/07/2019 01:36

It has just moved on, and not a drop of rain.

I enjoy a good storm. This wasn't a good one, just a little tease.

PonderingPanda · 24/07/2019 01:38

My sister has just messaged me to say she'd got a storm. She's in Gloucester. I currently have nothing...Sad

HelpMeHelpMeINeedARemedy · 24/07/2019 01:40

I'm in my 30s and I get scared!

MissBehaves · 24/07/2019 01:45

It was amazing!! Only a bit of rain & so much lightening- the thunder was ridiculous!

It could do with a downpour too if I was being fussy, but it’s an almost totally clear sky now here in S.Herefordshire.

CardinalBurns · 24/07/2019 01:46

Wish we had one here! It's fucking unbearable 😨

MissBehaves · 24/07/2019 01:49

Spoke too soon - just double checked and can’t see any stars now but there’s still quite a lot of lightening.

Daffodils07 · 24/07/2019 01:50

Wiltshire here and the thunder has been loud, it made me jump.
I dont normally mind it but it's been really bad tonight.

AgnesNaismith · 24/07/2019 01:50

I wanted it and now it’s here I’m scared Blush from the looks of lightning maps it’s not going away for a while!

Pieceofpurplesky · 24/07/2019 01:50

It's crazy here - trying to sleep but it's a right battle. Loving twitter and it's Boris apocalypse theory.
I love a storm and it's made it loads cooler

NeckPainChairSearch · 24/07/2019 01:50

I really love thunder and lightning, but YANBU to NOT like it!

RogueV · 24/07/2019 01:51

I really love it!
Just starting here

YouWhoNeverArrived · 24/07/2019 01:53

It's just woken me up. It's very loud here (Midlands)! Suspect I'll struggle to get back off to sleep until the weather settles down a bit.

TheJoxter · 24/07/2019 01:53

I’m fairly near Gloucester and the thunder and lightning has been constant for almost 2 hours now! Loving it

Barchester · 24/07/2019 02:00

It is God's wrath on the election of Boris Johnson as Prime Minister.

I am not being facetious but I remember very well, perhaps others do too, being woken by very severe thunder and lightning at about 4am on the morning of 23 June 2016, the dreaded referendum day. As I listened to the terrible thunder that morning, I felt that God was warning the country that it was so wrong to be having the referendum. Whatever anyone thinks of Brexit, they will agree that since that day the country has been so divided, which should never have happened.

It is more than a coincidence that there is thunder yet again on the morning of the day when Boris will become PM.

skybluee · 24/07/2019 02:03

I don't like it either :/
It's tipping it down here (black country).

NellyTimes · 24/07/2019 02:04

I hate it too OP, am cowering under my duvet, boiling hot and hoping the kids don't wake up.

cheeseislife8 · 24/07/2019 02:05

I love a thunderstorm! But my dog is terrified them, so on balance I'd rather not. Anything to break this ridiculous heat though!

MissBehaves · 24/07/2019 02:05

And the rain finally!!! Storm back in epic way 😬👍