What the F*CK was that?!??!

Wasn't it lightning?

i was half asleep when i heard that. it sure sounded like an explosion. but i think it was thunder though.

That was so scary! My poor dog almost had a heart attack.

Forget the dog, I almost had a heart attack! I'm in support of the direct hit theory. I was actually startled away by what seemed like an electric flash right in my bedroom. And then the two big booms. I was still breathing fast after I went to check the other windows.

The wife slept through it!

That WAS scary! Totally thought it was an explosion too, but the low rumble I heard after convinced me that it was a clap of thunder.

All was quiet in my house. But nothing short of a sonic boom will wake me.

apparently i'm the soundest sleeper EVER--on a weird, selective basis. i didn't hear any of this, and i sleep against an outside wall with my head between two windows that don't block out any sound at all. seriously, i can hear someone toss a bottle in the trash at the other end of the block when i'm awake. but two nights ago i shot up in bed because i heard my cat make her "i'm going to puke!" meow from the bathroom.

threecee, the bolt must have been really close to you for it to have been that horrifying.

The bolt actually "landed" in front of my house. It was so bright I could see the streak through my very sleeping eyelids and hear the crackle at the sametime. Not an igna second later........BOOM!

brokechick wrote: apparently i'm the soundest sleeper EVER--on a weird, selective basis. i didn't hear any of this, and i sleep against an outside wall with my head between two windows that don't block out any sound at all. seriously, i can hear someone toss a bottle in the trash at the other end of the block when i'm awake. but two nights ago i shot up in bed because i heard my cat make her "i'm going to puke!" meow from the bathroom.

threecee, the bolt must have been really close to you for it to have been that horrifying.

brokechick, no matter how hard i'm sleeping i can hear the cat honking noise.

i love thunderstorms, and the cat doesn't generally flip out over them. but she jumped high in the air at this thunderclap, yowza

caseopele wrote: [quote=brooklynpotter]brokechick, no matter how hard i'm sleeping i can hear the cat honking noise.

Oh yeah, nothing gets your ass out of bed faster than that noise.

i guess any good parent wakes up when the baby cries. O:) my girl is not afraid of thunder, but she waxes so dramatic about the hairballs you'd think she was a classically trained shakespearean hurler.

i love thunderstorms, too, especially with a lot of bright, sharp lightning. i have been known to pull my car over on the side of the road in the middle of them and gaze lovingly at the angry sky. but i would still be irked by one that woke me up in the middle of the night, so my sympathies to everyone who lost sleep to this one.