Not to my wife is too scared of it but when a lightning and thunder storm passes through (as one is now in San Diego), my wife really does not like it as; she will hide in the house with the curtains drawn and music up louder than she typically appreciates. (Right now she's concerned about driving home from work in the storm.)

If a storm like this passes through at night, while we're in bed, she's usually waking me up to let me know the storm is happening.

Anyone else in this boat (or are you the one who is scared/does not like them)?

Yes, my wife doesn't like them. While she won't exactly hide from them, she likes to seek shelter right beside me. Makes me appreciate thunderstorms more than I already did!

Nope. We both like to go out and sit on the front porch or back patio and watch them roll through. We both love the smell of the ozone during and after a thunder storm.

Jim

My father, a been there, done that WWII combat vet always went out and sat in our garage during violent thunderstorms. I thought it was a reaction to the noise of war he experienced.
Nope.
As a child, he was sitting on a front porch watching a thunderstorm when a bolt of lightening struck the porch and destroyed it around him.
Why he felt our garage was safer than our house, was not explained to me.

My wife doesn't care for thunder storms at all. She had rules for our kids, no using the phone (landline), no taking a bath or shower etc... hell she made me paranoid at times.

I grew up not caring about the weather. Then I went through a real hurricane. Now when the wind blows at night, I can't sleep and I worry all night long.

I get where she's coming from.

Love a good thunderstorm. At one time I had a digitally recorded sound track of thunderstorms rolling through the Rockie Mountains. I love to get out and watch them, from cover of course. My wife doesn’t mind them, but won’t go watch them with me. We had a Doberman who hated them, but Azul has gone over the bridge now and probably isn’t bothered by them any longer. I miss that dog.

Wife is not the issue, it’s furry critter we have.

LS1 that’s not bad, it could be worse she could be in the closet on the floor rocking back and forth.

Thunderstorms don't bother either of us, we somewhat enjoy the loud booms and heavy rain. It just seem's so clean and fresh afterwards.

Could be genuine fear of the lightening, could be something else.

Fireworks get me.

The Mrs. went thru a tornado. She gets "tense" when the black clouds roll in.

I always made it a point to check cattle a-horseback in the mornings and do other work in the summer afternoons. It's common up here for storms to roll in during the PM and I've skinned enough brands off lightening-killed cows not to fool around with it.

One afternoon a thunder storm rolled over the ridge where me and another fellow were checking on a herd in a five or six section pasture. We turned toward the truck and trailer as it was a nasty one that we couldn't see until it got right on top of us, but we held it to a trot for four miles or so. Once we hit the ridge we had to go over, the other guy kicked it into a run when it started hitting real close and all I could say was "Boy am I glad you did that-I wasn't going to be the first to fold".

I've heard of guys who threw off their spurs and any other metal on them and then crawl under their saddles when caught out.

I am not ashamed to admit it scares the bejabbers out of me.

Doesn’t really bother either one of us when we’re home. Really enjoyed a great light show in the area for a while a few years ago.

Now when we’re in the airplane, it’s a whole ‘nother story. Last time I was near one in the air I told the controller I was deviating south about twenty degrees for weather. (It was big black bugger with the anvil pointed generally my way.) The controller responded that it was thirty miles away. My response, “That’s almost far enough.”

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Originally posted by Ozarkwoods:
LS1 that’s not bad, it could be worse she could be in the closet on the floor rocking back and forth.

I think she may actually do that, with two Alaskan Shepards at her side, when I'm not home. Lol

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Yes, San Diego had a couple of large lightning strikes with very loud thunder claps today.

I enjoy lightning, probably because I grew up in San Diego and have seen so little of it in my lifetime.

To help you help your wife over the weekend as more heavy rain is expected, try having this up on your computer for your wife:

https://www.LightningMaps.org/...dc=0;dn=1;ra=1;ts=0;

Lightning Maps integrates Doppler Radar with maps to display lightning strikes.

I hope that as your wife hears the thunder, the map will show her exactly where the lightning is located. Maybe her seeing it is located further away than it sounds will reduce her anxiety. Maybe her seeing it has passed and is heading further away will help too.

If might not help her, you are the best judge on sharing it with her or not.

In the upper right corner of the map are several icons. The round gear looking icon is for settings. Play with the rain radar, I usually have it off in order to see the lighting strikes better. But the rain radar is great to watch the storm approach.

When you do play with Lighting Maps, make sure you zoom out to see the rest of the world and where all the big storms are at that exact moment in time!

Not my significant other and I’m certain other dog owners will chime in as well. I like thunderstorms in general and get a kick out of their light displays but my Golden Retrievers, one & all, can’t stsnd them. I usually have a 60-70 lb shaking ball of fur in my lap during t-storms so my enjoyment of them has decreased significantly and forget about sleeping through one.

No she has one though in me.

I have NOOOO problem with a good thunder storm. They are pretty cool. I take issue with the wrath of God bullshit we see in the South. Thunder and lightning is quaint. Greenish yellow skies that hang 12 feet above your head and sound like a freight train and knock houses over......not so much. God damn rolling thunder here has set car alarms off for miles!!!

Several years ago I was driving home.....road sign tore off in front of me, truck started to lift on its suspension........FUCK THAT NOISE.

Thunder storms in San Diego........that’s cute.

Seriously though I do understand. Where I grew up weather meant dressing differently, it didn’t mean air raid sirens and sheltering in place. I lived down the road from a fire tower that would get struck by lightning all the time and that was a holy shit moment but nothing like here. So I get the fear. It is a fear of a low probability high impact event and it sucks. Just tell her where you live it’s a light show and a power outage, where other folks live it’s a community being forceably relocated to the next county.

....and sue me I am a pussy since my daughter came along. Stuff I don’t have at least some perceived control over bugs the hell out of me whether that perception is valid or not. I am a Boy Scout be prepared guy and the crazy shit that you have NO control perceived or otherwise over scares the bejezzus out of me especially since I am on duty to protect and shelter this little human from the worlds bullshit for at least a couple decades.

Lighting in San Diego.

Now I will give you guys earthquakes, mudslides, fires, civil unrest and possibly an OJ sighting but storms......psssshhhhwwww.

I am just ribbing you. Fear is irrational yet can be paralyzing no matter if it’s flying, storms, spiders, OJ, lightning etc. we all have something and in most cases that something embarrasses us because we know it’s largely bullshit and normal humans have no issues with it so why do we? Just humor your wife and “protect” her however she needs, as irrational as her fear or mine might be it is DEFCON 4 REAL to her and it’s worth being sensitive to. I mean you probably have your fears. Be honest if the “Burger King KING” showed up outside your window there would be poo and 12 gauge involved no???

My wife sleeps right thru them, we once had a major power transmission line arc together, I'm talking the big ones on the steel towers, it lit the inside of our house up like a huge arc welder and my wife never woke up I damn near hit the ceiling.

No. We have lots of them here on the Gulf Coast. They don't bother us any.