Discuss...............

Very cool. Got the windows open here. :)

Can hear people "oooohing" downstairs each time the thunder rolls. :)

Rain sounds nice on my skylights sort of relaxing.

but i noticed its just stopped

Fantastic!!! My bedroom windows looks over Sheffield city centre and it's an amazing view of all the lightning!!!

HA HA!! Just been watching people running up and down West St getting soaked. Very funny! :D

Better not be like this saturday night....... :(

First time I've ever seen one of our cats, Kizy, really worried. She currently resides under the bed.

Jarvis, on the other hand, who came in like a bat out of hell, is doing the 'Hey, it's cool, I was just jogging and I am now having a wash. No worries....' act.

There was some spectacular sheet ligtning though - VERY bright and going by the speed of the thunder almost immediately overhead here in Walkley.

Don't think we'll be seeing many meteors, though.....

Joe

Originally posted by mr craig
HA HA!! Just been watching people running up and down West St getting soaked. Very funny! :D

Better not be like this saturday night....... :(

I'm about to pop down to Tesco. Take pity.

I've seen some amazing forks (of the lightening variety). Really fantastic. there seemed to be three separate storms going at once before. I also popped out to the spar (Ecclesall road) just before it all kicked off and got soaked on the way back. to upset me more, spar wasn't open due to a refurb. Bugger!

i've been drowning it out to the sweet sound of Fatboy Slim: Star 69

not having neighbours is good :D

I'm jealous, wish i had no neighbours. would love to ram my stereo right up sometimes and bounce around my lounge!

what storm! Damm i missed it listening to music and hovering. I had an attack of order! Arrrrrrrrgh

jephgh? how, but how did you miss that storm. it was like several gods wrestling. not that i know what that would be like, but it was big!

Originally posted by miniminch
what storm! Damm i missed it listening to music and hovering. I had an attack of order! Arrrrrrrrgh

Should that be "hoovering" or are you a member of the Natural Law Party :)

Well when I get paid I am definatly going storm-chasing again. I would have gone tonight but I doubt that 20 miles would have been much use - and that was out and back... :(

Should I win the lottery I would get a big van and fit it out with cameras, meteorology equipment, brew-stuff, comfy-stuff...

Lightning struck something very close to us in Crookes, people rushed out of the pub thinking there had been an accident the crash was so loud. everything ok when we got home though :)

Get a grip, you lot! At the time, I was walking from high storrs/greystones down to the Hunters Bar pubs for a pint or two.
(wearing a waxed hooded jacket and the biggest umbrella youv'e EVER seen) got int the brookie dry as a bone!)

Did worry about getting hit by lightening, though..

Did worry about getting hit by lightening, though..

Well as far as I can remember from the What to do in an emergency book part 2 with the stuff from RTA to labor et al...

If you have any metalic objects - I keep a key in my hand 100% of the time when in a storm - and you hear it buzz, vibrate, ANYTHING different/wrong I thinkg you dive down level (myself I would ditch the key faster than an emergency stop has saved MANY stupid lives thanks to a well trained river... On the prinipal that the key has a lower resisiatnce to earth but with the factor of traveling through the air...)

I remember I THINK that the beast position os on the balls (front part) of your feet, crouched down as if you are struck it comes down and does less injury - I'm not quoting direct, I have had a drink also and I would get sound advice from a profesional before putting myself infront of risk like this.

Ohh, wait, I'm wanting to get INTO an "asylum"...

Doh? :)

Bu**er!! I thought 'cos most things around me where higher -houses, trees outside the houses, the church by the pub, that they would be hit first:o I did check that the handle on my huge 'brolly was not of the conductive kind, of course hic.:loopy: ;)

The BEST thing to do is make sure either it is made of plasic or such OR run a multimeter through it and asked who could know to check whether it was a risk...


And no - lightning can take a detour - as you see in the sky every bolt - it detours for NO REASON AT ALL!!!!!!

Bear this in mind and ask when i go chasing why I wear a steal car around me 99% of the time... :D

It did strike in crookes, about 500m from me. gave me a heartattack. was on the fone looking out my window in the atic. i promptly went down stairs

hmmmm. great storm...........especially if your flyering for kingdom LOLOL. yay meant i could go straight back indoors :) i HATE flyering.

It looked good from Chesterfield, where it only rained about three spots. The lightning was filling the sky over here.

Didn't get a storm down South, had to watch meteors instead!

For some reason after a storm I always seem to have a great nights sleep.

that would be all those negative ions.

I always have to turn my PC off during thunder storms, cos I have a permanent BB connection which comes off a Satellite dish (Wireless BB) so if the thunder went down the dish, the BB connection would get fried, and the provider wouldn't do anything to repair it cos it was an "act of God" (damn you God you great bearded twit! :lol: )

Standing out in the storm is somet else.. Soooooooo relaxing..

Thunder, woaaaaaahh-ooooooooooah THUNDER! :D

I watched it all the way through, I love watching lightning storms. The dig joined me at the window to have a look, didn't seem to bother her either.

Oh it was thunder ... I thought it was the residents of Sheffield bringing all their wheelie bins in ....

woohoo! and another one!

Yep usual warning signs

Crackle on am radio

sky goes off

Hope its not as bad as Cornwall

:)

Seems to have fizzled out, i'm a bit disapointed really. :( The storm last week deserved a better sequel than that!!!

Blanket coverage of the cornwall storms on sky..................can't help but feel if it happened in the north it would not get the same coverage.

Unless it was Leeds of course.

Originally posted by alchresearch
Unless it was Leeds of course.

absolutely