Violent lightning storms, one of the joys of living in Florida

[steve2470]

I was asleep this morning, and was quite pleasantly awakened by a lightning bolt that probably alighted on some hapless tree a few yards from my residence. Probably about 50 more of these gems happened within a 15 minute period thereafter. Lots of rain. The frogs were choking and sending up the white flag. The driest frogs were manning the lifeboats!

Ah, next time I'll go outside with a golf club raised high above my head!


Seriously, they are kinda fun until one hits 10 feet from your house.


eta: Because I am feeling very "random", a nice pic of mama polar bear and her two cubs in Greenland

[Liberal Jesus Freak]

1. Ah, Florida...

My brother-in-law and I were on the screened porch during a thunderstorm when lightning struck a tree about ten feet from us. I'm not sure our feet hit the ground on our way back into the house I miss Florida

[steve2470]

2. oh I can relate, I levitated off my bed this AM lol nt

[chillfactor]

3. I love thunderstorms....

I have never been afraid of them but I do jump a bit when the lighting is close....

[Kaleva]

4. I sleep well during a thunderstorm.

[A HERETIC I AM]

5. Make sure it's a One Iron

Because as Lee Trevino famously said, "Not even God can hit a one iron"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Trevino#Humor

[steve2470]

9. funny anecdote, thanks! nt

[left-of-center2012]

6. Best (or worse) thunderstorm I experienced

One night thirteen years ago in Rio Rancho, N.M. when it thundered all night long,
setting off multiple car alarms.

[Raissa]

7. After 10 years they still make me nervous!

I live in the Bay Area and the storms are insane. I've had lightning strike a tree in my yard, but the craziest was when it struck my pool cage. I don't think it was a primary strike, but my whole cage lit up and there was the craziest metallic snapping noise. My mother was in the house with me and both our jaws just dropped.

Just yesterday I was driving back from Tallahassee and watching the lightning strike on both sides of the interstate for a 45 minute stretch. It's just crazy to witness.

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. Poor me, a transplant to Fla. from a place where lightening kept its distance.

Almost every afternoon in the summer like clockwork the storms would hit. I have NEVER seen lightening like that, and it was "normal".
No bad results from it, but have sat thru 3 lightening storms here in Ala. that lifted the hair on my head, one direct strike to a tree outside the house, which also fried our telephone wires, including the connection in the wall inside.
Luckily I had unplugged the computer and other important things, because there was ample weather report warnings.
same storm managed to make a direct hit on the front of the road of the house across from me, and blew apart the water meter in the ground, left a wide hole, city had to patch it.
that sharp zzzzzzzzzizzle noise is very memorable.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

10. You're feeling very "random"?

Are you, by any chance, owed beer and travel money, and many experiences?

[steve2470]

11. no LOL

He was an interesting fellow, to be sure.

[cwydro]

12. When I lived in Key West, during one of the hurricanes

I saw blue lightning. It was the strangest sight I've ever seen.

Quite pretty if I hadn't been so terrified at the time.

[Homer Wells]

13. Oh, yes indeed

Tampa thunderstorms were a true joy during the time I grew up there in the 50's and 60's.
I do very much miss the old Florida

[Dulcinea]

14. We get them in GA, too.

A few years ago, a bunch of my friends & I were at a party on Lake Lanier, north of Atlanta, when a lightning bolt struck & split a tree in half about 10 feet from us! Fortunately, no one was hurt. I'm sure they could have heard us screaming back in the city, though!