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nintendofan
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23 Nov 2011, 5:26 am

i like rain , im scared of thunder and lightning


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23 Nov 2011, 9:25 am

I'm still a bit scared of thunderstorms. I think it's because when I was little a lightning bolt hit a house a few doors down from us and knocked the chimney off and our TV went out. After that whenever my mum told me that storms couldn't hurt me I knew she was lying. I'm ok with them if they're far off in the distance but if they get really close I get anxious and I don't like the very loud thunderclaps. I am usually quite relieved after a storm in the summertime though because it relieves the build-up of heat and humidity which always gives me a headache.



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23 Nov 2011, 10:40 am

I love storms of all kinds! I love the snow, it always seems to lift the winter gloom and lying in bed listening to rain batter against the window is always cool! Although I would happily substitute any storms for hot sunshine, I hate the cold! Sometimes I think I'm solar powered!



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23 Nov 2011, 12:37 pm

Love them!! !! Best high I can get!! !! !!

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23 Nov 2011, 12:42 pm

I love storms, especially when there is lots of lightening and heavy rain. But if I lived in a country that has proper storms I would probably hate them.



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23 Nov 2011, 12:46 pm

btbnnyr wrote:
My favorite type of storm is thundersnow.


I saw thundersnow in Missouri last winter. Wow. wtf? It was incredible.


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23 Nov 2011, 9:53 pm

> But if I lived in a country that has proper storms I would probably hate them.

Well, you can't *quite* relax. I might have misread the statistic, but AFAIK, Britain is kind of like Florida when it comes to tornadoes... it's not the first place that comes to mind when people hear about them, but apparently it has more per square mile than any country in Europe, and in fact has more per square mile than any state in the US besides Florida. It's just that (like Florida), most British tornadoes are short-lived EF0 or EF1 (with an occasional EF2, and an exceptionally rare EF3 once or twice per century), and strike at night (when they're unlikely to be seen, photographed, or caught on video).

I might be wrong, but I think I read somewhere that Britain gets lots of tornadoes for the same reason Florida does -- cold continental air colliding with warmer air above the Gulf Stream offshore (in contrast to the supercell-type storm systems that spawn monster tornadoes in the midwestern US).