Why don't they listen??

[Velobambina]

I think you should have let them learn their lesson & get drenched.

[lph]

But this is lightning we're talking about, right? Lightning is downright dangerous, but rain is just rain. I'd be pretty darn p*ssed off if my dh came to fetch me just cos he saw rain coming in.

Nah, I wouldn't be, but I probably wouldn't get in the car

[sundial]

But this is lightning we're talking about, right?

Yes, it was a similar storm that hit us the night before--with lots of lightning. If it was just rain, I would have left them alone. But lightning out in the open farmlands--yikes!

Lightning does seem to follow me. It hit our house 2 years ago. It blew out the light fixture above my head as well as the coffee maker next to where I was standing. The gas logs started smelling funny (according to my gsd) and I called the fire department to come out and check things over.

[OakLeaf]

The gas logs started smelling funny (according to my gsd)

Good dog!

[OakLeaf]

I remembered this thread two nights ago when lightning struck VERY close while we were eating dinner. So close that we could smell the electrical burning smell, very strongly. Amazingly, it didn't hit our antenna tower and fry the brand new TV or the satellite receiver, but whatever it did hit was too close for comfort! Yes I WILL be more careful about going outside where there's lightning!

[littlegrasshopp]

when I was a child, my little brother and I were watching a storm from the front screen door. Lightning bounced off our cement steps and hit a tree across the street from us. The branches of the tree were on the roof of the house it stood by. I remember the loud noise it made and seeing all the shingles on my neighbor's house curled and My neighbor's dad running in circles with an apron. Mom told us that the house got a perm. It took her years to convince me and my brother that lightning is NOT funny.

[sundial]

Mom told us that the house got a perm.

LOL! That is so funny!

When I was a child, lightning hit an old oak tree just outside my bedroom window, blew a 4 ft x 4 ft hole in the bedroom, traveled through the wall, knocked sheetrock across the room over our heads and smashed it into the closet doors, bashing it to smithereens. The lightning traveled around my bedframe and zapped me. My mother walked into our bedroom with a flashlight and I could barely see the beam because of the dust. That was my first encounter with lightning. I thought it was pretty cool! My brother, on the other hand, was terrified of that room for months because it smelled like dynamite. We had to vacate the home for 3 months while repairs were being made. Needless to say we made the news.