Had the mother and father of all electrical storms last night

[MrsKP]

and have a small lake in the polythene which i quite cleverly put down yesterday over a bit of ground i want to dry out and level for the path.

it was quite exciting  ;D

did anyone else get it or just us weegies ?  ;D

[MrsKP]

[MattyJC]

I was up all night at work  :( and all we had was less than 5 mins of Little drizzle!
Shame really could do with the rain and I do love a good thunder storm.

Matt

[saddad]

Send some to Derby please, dry as a bone here...
8)

[weedbusta]

love thunder storms, wasn't it great! hubby boys and i wee watching out the windows but couldn't see much for houses so...... threw the weans in the car(jammies and all) and went for a drive up the hill to watch it. they're usualy in bed by half past eight and thought it was wicked!! phoned my mum who was sitting with the curtains drawn and the telly off, obviously don't get it from her side of the family!!

[MrsKP]

fantastic weedbusta .............. who was more excited ?  you or the kids ??

i was knackered and had gone to bed with harry (potter)  :P dead early, but had the curtains drawn so i could watch the flashes, and then kept jumping out to watch closer.

see the tower block that seemed to get hit at parkhead ??  there's a pic on the beeb if you want to see.

;D

[Hyacinth]

dead envious, me.... :'( :'(

When we had electrical storms when I was little, my Dad used to get us out of bed (not that they always happened at night, just that we always seemed to be in bed, like.. ::)).....and took us down to the shed in the garden....it's one of my earliest memories......and we watched the storm all around us.....magic it was. :) ..drank cocoa and counted the lapse between thunder and lightening....

Then, living in central Italy, when the weather broke about 15th August, when the storms would go on and on and on overhead for three solid days, was able to share the same magnificance of the elements with my little son...

Reckon it was one of the best things my Dad ever taught me to pass on :)  8)

[Robert_Brenchley]

There was one over Birmingham in about 90 or 91 that I'll never forget. I was woken up by a continuous roaring like a jet engine that went on and on and on. When I eventually woke up enough to stick my head out, I found it was about 2 am, and there was a constant bluish flickering light in the room. In the end I sat up, looked out of the window, and realised that it was continuous flashes of lighting on the other side of the block, towards the city centre, which was being reflected off the tower block opposite. I've never seen the like! I just wish the storm had been on my side.

[deboydoyd]

The lady across from our plot says that plant growth increases after an electrical storm---is that old wives tales or is she right??

[Mrs Ava]

I have heard that deboydoyd.  Something to do with the ozone gasses, or something sciency like that.... :-\

LOVE thunder storms with a passion.  As a girlie I had a huge bay window in my bedroom and if there was a storm I would climb out of bed and sit on the vast windowsill watching the storm for hours.  Now my children do the same, we all love a good storm!  Could do with the rain also please - looks like it is forecast to rain over the weekend here in sunny Essex.  Fingers crossed.

ooo, and I have a cousin who as a lad, many many years ago, was struck twice by lightening.  Rare to be struck once, but twice!!!!  :o

[MrsKP]

some superb pics here

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/4974998.stm

[weedbusta]

great pics. number 9's a five minute walk from my house. there were some really great bolts.  i think i was more excited than the boys! hopefully as alishka said they'll remember it forever. i luv the magic around weans.

[Mrs Ava]

Wow!  Amazing pics!

[greenstar]

Hi Mrs KP and Weedbusta - it was fantastic wasn't it?  3 yr old slept right through it, but the 7 yr old managed to totally overcome his fear of storms and stayed up for hours watching it.  I only got nervous and started unplugging everything at one point as I swear lightening struck  somewhere in Queens Park - about 500 yards from our flat!  And then yesterday was such a perfect after-storm day - all shiny and fresh and new.  Lovely!

[MrsKP]

absolutely, a lovely fresh clean sunny day .......... followed by not such a bad day today i suppose, but more rain than i would have liked seeing as i was out in it, but that's the levelling and barking of the paths 99.99% done.

i've been out there since 7am only popping in for the emergency cuppa. it's a good job we've got plenty of water, i've just spent an hour hosing down all the sh[te off the patio.......... (sorry for those of you that haven't got any water but we've got more than we could possibly even send down).

i'm filthy, bloody shattered (again) and having a beer and watching a pigeon perching precariously on the robin's feeder doing 360 degrees at speed. 

i love living up here  ;D

[lorna]

I love thunder storms but my poor old  Mum was terrified. We had to close all the curtains take the cutlery off the table and sit as far away from the windows as possible.
Last year my son was at a car auction in Southampton, he ran across the yard to get out of the rain, he felt  a pain in his leg and thought he was going to trip. His friend said he saw a flash from a manhole cover directed to John's leg. He had a very sore leg for a few days.