How do you deal with thunder and lightening?

I don't remember outdoors during thunder and lightening recently. I just enjoy them indoors.Usually I like violent incessant downpours. [b][i]I hear the rumble ringing through the night. I see the streak of flashing light. It makes the clouds glow all around As again I hear that rumbling sound The rain falls harsh and splashes high As once more the lightning lights up the sky. There are those who fear this cosmic charge The sound so loud and the lightning so large But I watch it as a little child with wondrous eye. [/i][/b] This is what I used to be since my childhood where I was in hill country in Sri Lanka.[b][/b]

Hello Rose. When it thunders and lightens, I try to avoid walking outside, but stay in the house. I feel scared about the sharp and violent lightening. I still remember there was one late afternoon when I was still a child, I happened to have experienced a loud and terrifying lightening dropping at the bottom of my feet, which was such a hazard to me. I was carrying s smaller boy on my back, who was my neighbor's son. Fortunately, we were out of the havoc. Later we stayed in a neighbor's house to wait for the end of the rain with the continuous terrible lightening. It was an experience that I will never forget and it is deeply impressed in my mind. Also when I was a kid, I used to hide under the big dinning table when it started with thunder and lightening. I have always considered it to be very dangerous to walk or to be outside during lightening and thundering moments. Better to stay inside than to walk out in this case. Thank you for the discussion and take care, friend.

LOL! My everyday life is not less than any thunder or lightening. I experience it quite often, albeit in a different manner. Jokes apart, when there is thunder and lightening our natural reaction is take shelter, wherever possible and to safeguard ourselves. We also fear that thunder or lightening may not cause any havoc. But it reminds me of a saying - "those who thunder, do not rain", so whenever such a situation is there, I recall that saying and feel alright. I suppose high rising buildings have device to neutral the lightening effect. How do you feel in such a situation?

Hi Dear Roseo8 Hope u must be doing well, What we can do in thunder and lighting, just carry on with regular work and Pray To Allah that we stay safe in this weather and it should be blessing for US. Many times i am on road during thunder and lighting and can seee Lighting on Sky and Lound thunder, its scary but as well as lovely tooo Wish u all the best Take care

I am not scared of thunder and lightening. It may be because I have not seen it creating any havoc. I have not experienced a storm either so I do not know how frightening the thunder and lightening could exactly be. May be I should come down south during the rains and see!!!

During outdoors, when i get symptons of Thunder or lighting , i just try to get a safe place say hotel/restratunt to keep me and my family protected and ifts indoor i just shut the doors and windows to avoid these dangerous natural harzdeous.

I really don't bother much with it. But I had an aunt and everytime we visited her and there would be thunder and lightening (and happened quite a lot in Malappuram)...she would make us sit on a wooden chair and keep our legs off the floor!! I found it very funny....she's no more....but I remember her with incidents like this.

thunder and lightning don't bother me actually. Usually i am inside the house reading some books or listening to the music.

If I am indoors, then I will unplug the TV and turn off my computer. Although I am unwilling to do so. But in order to avoid any accidents, I have to do so. If I am outdoors, I will be scared and perhaps try to enter to a building rather than stay outside for a long time. I love China

Hi Rose, For most of my life I've feared Thunder and lightening and it's only in recent years that I don't let it really bother me. I believe a fear of such things may come from a parents attitude towards it when one is quite young. Blessings.

Well if a storm comes up when I am outdoors, I try to seek shelter indoors. I don't like the idea of being outside in severe weather, but there have been times in the past when the types of work I did made it necessary. I never really got used to it, but I learned to put it in the back of my mind and do what I have to do. When I am indoors, I usually don't give it a second thought. I actually like to watch the lightning during a storm. My dogs hate the thunder, and they usually hide under the couch or under their blanket, but it doesn't usually bother me unless it is really loud, because I hate loud noises that remind me of gunshots...

Honestly am not scared to either of them, I mean they are natural phenomenom. When we were kids we usually crouched inside a blanket and laugh when there were thunders and lightnings and our grandma scolds us because it might made more of them in doing so (she was a little superstiteous). When I'll be indoor I will cover the big mirrors or glasses because it's a fact that these stuff might be broken when lightnings strike. If I'll be outdoors I'll probably look for shelters to avoid p;ossible damaged by it.

I'm actually not scared of thunder or lightning. Sometimes I actually sit outside on our veranda and watch the rain fall with thunder and lightning. If it was really really really etc. bad then I would stay in the house.

Im really afraid of thunders & lightning..i hate that loud sounds.its safe to be in doors only....well its good to go in rain but we cant tell when accidents happen ..id prefer to be indoors if its lightening...because once my dad had an accident ..it was heavily raining and a telephone pole hit his head ....that was too dangerous fortunately there were two students who took him to hosptal.

Hi Rose, It is a normal scene in our state. It is really dangerous also. Many got killed and many houses destroyed. Animals also got killed so everyone in the state is very scared about the same. I also scared the situation and if we are standing outside the house jumped into the house (think that we are safe inside house, but the truth is not like that). A lot to do at home also disconnect the telephone line, switching off the tv etc. I think this situation is mainly in our state. May be there are lot of trees (I don't know the exact reason). What about you? Do you have fear of the same?