big thunderboomers here

[MissMillie]

.... someone hold me

[KamaAina]

1. Doggone it

my arms aren't long enough. :(

[MiddleFingerMom]

2. LOVE thunderboomers... LOVE 'EM!!!!!

.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Have sometimes gone outside to be more at one with them. HIGH energy... exciting.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Boarded with a woman once with a little girl 4 and a little boy 8. She was so
TERRIFIED of thunderstorms that she would take them with her into a central
hallway to sleep on the floor, as if it were an approaching tornado.
.
Poor kids.
.
Probably 'inherited' her phobia.
.

[MissMillie]

3. I like 'em too

and I'm not really afraid, it's just that the lightning was close enough to be very loud... made me jump

[MiddleFingerMom]

4. I grew up with a collie who was an EXCELLENT thunderstorm forecaster...

.
...as her ears would go down and she'd start shaking uncontrollably -- a definitely
recognizable "approaching thunderstorm" state. When it began in earnest, she would
pee on the floor -- the ONLY time she would ever pee on the floor.
.
Except... if a stranger came in the front door, she would bark "ferociously" at
them -- all the while wagging her tail and peeing on the entranceway floor.
.
The entranceway had a slate floor.
.
GOOD doggie.
.
.
.
When I went into the Army at 17, I had long hair. I got a long weekend off and
came home as a surprise, letting myself in the front door when everyone was out
and about somewhere. With me now sporting a buzz haircut, Sandy (a Christmas
present to us kids, I won the naming contest with Sandy Claws) greeted me in
the same ferociously wetting-herself way... until she smelled me, at which point
she LEAPED up on me and licked away many weeks of military training abuse.
.
It was an awfully nice homecoming.
.