veryLOUD!
By ingrid
@ridingbet (66854)
Philippines
June 11, 2018 6:32am CST
Good Monday evening to all. It has not yet rained for today but it is drizzling now.
About 2 hours ago, the sun was still shining to the west. Then there was a very loud BANG. I thought somebody fired an RPG because it was so deafening.
Then my sister called all the dogs inside because all of them were playing in the lawn. “Inside”, she said and all dogs went in.
Then I realized. It was not the sound of an RPG. It was a very loud thunder. My son and sister agreed with me. No, there was no lightning preceding the thunder.
But now, there is no more thunder roaring in the skies. Just that one.
Are you scared of the loud sound of thunder? I am not, even our dogs are not.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
12 Jun 18
we usually expect thunder and lightning if the hot temperature clashes with the cool temperature in the atmosphere. i dread if a person's life is taken by a bolt of lightning in an open field.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
12 Jun 18
@rakski that is why when there are thunderstorms here, we would close our windows and door and not bring out our mobile phones.
and not wear red. hahaha
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@LadyDuck (472004)
• Switzerland
12 Jun 18
@ridingbet A lightning entered in my granny house through the fireplace and came out through the side door. We got a big scare.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
12 Jun 18
i recall lightning hitting a tree in front of our house, and another one, a flash of lightning that entered our house when we were still renting in the city. good thing we had no electricity that time.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
12 Jun 18
@LadyDuck that is so scary. seeing what seemed to be a fireball is frightening.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
12 Jun 18
there is a barracks about a kilometer from our house.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
13 Jun 18
@id_peace yes, and when you are near the barracks, you can hear shots fired when the soldiers target shooting.
@cherigucchi (14876)
• Philippines
12 Jun 18
Sometimes I do get scared of course.
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@cherigucchi (14876)
• Philippines
12 Jun 18
@ridingbet True. I guess no matter how old I get I will always be scared of thunder and lightning.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
13 Jun 18
@cherigucchi i am scared if i am in an open field. when inside the house, i just close the windows and door, and switch off or hide, any electrical instruments so the lightning won't go down and hit us.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
12 Jun 18
and it is more scary when lightning goes down from the clouds and hit a tree. then the thunder follows.
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@simplfred (20641)
• Philippines
11 Jun 18
Yeah, sometimes when it's really loud. But thunder will not hurt us, the one that will electricute us is the lightings.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
12 Jun 18
yes, thunder won't harm us but not for those who have weak heart. a loud sound may induce seizures or cardiac arrest.
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@simplfred (20641)
• Philippines
12 Jun 18
@ridingbet You sure are right my friend.
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@SiddharthV (925)
• India
13 Jun 18
I am not sacred of loud sounds, but I am definitely scared of thunder.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
14 Jun 18
oh, you mean scared? me too, i am not scared of lightning and thunder.
but thunder is also a loud sound, so are there any loud sound that you are not scared of?
@just4him (317249)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
11 Jun 18
There was only one time in my life when thunder scared me, and that was when I was living on Guam. It was as loud as you described and scared me, but not a second time, because I knew what to expect, still it did make me jump when it was so loud. If it happened at night, it was the only sound to wake me. I'm normally a very hard sleeper and nothing wakes me, but that did.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
12 Jun 18
true, a very loud sound, if unknown to us, can easily scare us away. that was what i thought of when i heard the loud bang. i thought maybe a blast from an RPG did that.
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