OMG!!! I don't remember such a storm in my life!!

I do remember some very bad storms as a child but I do not know if it seemed more dangerous because I was so young. However, here in the tropics I have lived through many hurricanes and that has been awful. right now, I have a big list of things or get in case there is a hurricane. They can be very scary but we have been lucky in so far as we have tended to have them in the day and not the night. At night, the damage would be a lot worse. Just remember that the lightning you see has already gone and will not hurt you. I must admit that I am scared of lightning too and will dive under anything big enough to hold me! I am not scared of thunder though although I am scared of thunderbolts.

JerZ, I woke up to the same storm this morning in PA. Hail smashing down on the roof like a freight train. My dogs were trying to hide....what a morning! the worst storm I ever experienced was in the south west of Texas, three kids and one adult out in the middle of pasture land... we were told to lay flat and grab a yucca to anchor onto. Other than that I love a good light show courtesy of atmospheric nature. Theres another band moving in now...batten down the hatches!

I was in a high rise dorm at college and the first time I was awaken by a lighten strike, was pretty scary. Because the dorm I was in and the one next to it were, at that time, the tallest buildings in the area, the lightening rods were fequently hit. I remember one storm I woke up 6" off the bed and the sky was light from the lightening for about 10 minutes pretty much non-stop. I, on the other hand, just lay there and enjoyed it.

it's been rainy here off and on all month..surprisingly no thunder though.. um..the worst thunderstorm i recall was sometime in 1980..the space between flashes was almost non-existant..just one after another. i had a friend that was sleeping over at the time (we were kids)and she was terrified. but then there was one about 15 years ago,that barely had any thunder,and lightning took out the tree on the corner.caught it on fire,too. it was weird,relatively quiet storm,and then ZOT.

I'm sorry you've had to endure this thunderstorm ordeal. It surely must have been a frightening experience. Just listening to the continuous lightning and thunder would be intimidating enough, not to mention the driving rain, flooding and uprooting of trees and shrubs. I saw the report and video from your link, and I am amazed to learn that there were more than 1,700 lightning strikes within the first hour of the storm. That's an amazing number of strikes...no wonder you said there was no break in the lightning and thunder. Luckily for me here in Asia, I don't have to encounter such terrible weather. We do have lightning and thunder occasionally, some bad ones too that can scare us, but not as bad as what you went through. Hope you don't have to go through such a scary thunderstorm ordeal again.

I have been through some pretty cool storms. One time a tornado was heading straight for our home and my dad could only stand and watch from the back of the farm. Suddenly when the twister came to our house, it lifted and went over the house. I was in the house with my mother and sisters. We did not even know of this until my father came running in the house and told us. Another time I was home with my child, mentally retarded sister, and our cat. I just settled down to read a book after a rain. Suddenly I could not see anything out the window. I heard some loud bangs and the house shook. A locked outside door flew open. I headed straight to the basement. The windows were bending in. As quickly as it came up, it was gone. This wind or storm or whatever it was picked up a large tree and slammed into the roof of the house two to three times and then laid it in the front yard. Come to find out later, my mother had been praying for a new roof and to have that tree removed. Guess what she got...a new roof and the tree chopped up. I told her that I wanted to know the next time she prayed for something so that I would also be prepared for the answer given. Are my stories scaring you. I would hope not! If you are praying to God, you should know that there is a Bible verse that says "God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and a sound mind. We should use wisdom in bad weather, but we should not be fearful. Look at how Jesus spoke to the weather and it obeyed. I wonder where this fear first had an open door to enter into your heart. I pray that God will set you free from all of this and you will have peace indeed. Oh, and one more story. My parents bought a farm when I was about ten years old. They had a large mortgage to pay and my father was very frightened that he would not be able to do it. This was his fear, the fear of lack. That first year we had a drought and the crops were burning up in the field. I remember daddy crying over all of this. My mother gently told my dad that they would pray about it and God would send the rain. The next day, we woke up to a farm that had been rained on and all the crops were standing up straight and tall. It's funny, though, no other properties were rained on that night but ours. Hmmmm, I wonder who is in charge of the weather.

Did someone mention my name? Well unlike you, I've never been afraid of thunderstorms, but OMG last night's storm or I should say early morning was terrible. Like you where I am lightening was flashing non-stop. lighting the sky as if it were daylight and LOUD claps of thunder...in fact some of the lightening bolts were so low I honestly thought they were going to come into the apt. Right now though all is calm and quiet..though I think we're to be hit with more storms tomorrow There was one storm about two years ago though, I NEVER saw wind as strong as that in my life...I later heard that the Brooklyn area of NY was getting hit by of all things a tornado..and the wind we felt was it's outreaching effects

i got the same thunderstorm this morning! it woke me and my cat Sadie up at 7 in the morning. i live in NY. it was pretty bad. i enjoy the rain , but not when i have to commute. often times my friends and i run in the rain. this morning i was too tired to have fun in the rain, and i was glad i didn't have to commute, it was dangerous. i thought Sadie would be frightened, but she was curious. she looked out the window.

We did not storm here