Holy Thunder and Lightning

Last night (around 1:30am) I think lightning came closer to my house than I have EVER seen before. I woke up from sleeping to an enormous crack while my whole room lit up simultaneously. I thought it might have hit my backyard umbrella. I'm still convinced it hit SOMETHING either in or very near my yard. I heard the people above me run to the window to look as well.

Scary, scary.

Anybody else wake up with this storm?

(p.s. am in WT/S. Slope)

i've been told that i woke up and said, "what the fuck was that!"; i don't remember this happening. but the BF said it kept him awake.

Minxie and I woke up from the loud thunder as well. It was very close on my patio as well. Thought it had hit someone's grill or patio furniture, but didn't see anything.

I stayed up with Minxie until close to 2:30am since she was a bit hyper after that.

Hope Stella and Jackson were okay.

Crap - I DO sleep like a dead person. I never heard a thing.

i would not have remembered waking up if i hadn't been told i did not. generally, i sleep like the dead.

Yeah I heard it in North Slope. It passed right above me and lit up my room. It quickly passed by though. I got up and checked on the stray cat we're trying to adopt out and he was all, "yeah, whatever. Feed me." :roll: damn kitties.

Holy craps- I didn't remember the storm until reading this. I woke up after hearing "the BIG one," but it sounded like an explosion to me in my sleepy head. BF had to tell me it was thunder. I SO didn't believe him.

I think I'm slightly insane when I'm sleeping....

Oh yeah i woke up first to the thunder and lightening and then realizing that the rain was spewing in the window. It was all so loud I couldn't get back to sleep for awhile too!

I was woken up right around 1:45 by it. I remember seeing a really bright flash that lit my entire room like a searchlight, followed by a near-immediate clap that shook the apt. Crazy! I talked to my roommate this morning about it, and he said he never ever woke up, didn't hear a thing, at which point I stared at him in confusion and left for work.

Jackson was hiding in his box (Jack in the Box), but Stella leaped off of the bed and then ran under it.

There have been times I have slept through storms, but not this one (although I kind of wish I had....it was scary).

I had to keep repeating my mantra ..."this house has been standing for over 100 years"

Awwwwwwwww! My house is brick and I'm glad we know no bad wolf storm can blow it down! Althought it would have been nice to have a big fluffly black lab to cuddle!

Yep, same here. Ive never heard it that close before (Im in WT). Sounded like it was coming from the edge of the park but maybe it was in a closer backyard?

Whatchuwant wrote:
I think I'm slightly insane when I'm sleeping....

This might be my new tagline, except I think I'm slightly insane when awake too

Flexichick wrote: [quote=Whatchuwant]
I think I'm slightly insane when I'm sleeping....

This might be my new tagline, except I think I'm slightly insane when awake too

yea, that's a given.

A few months ago, the lightning was so bad in Queens that it passed through my mom's living room window and knocked a lamp of hers off the coffee table to the floor, and shattered into several pieces (without leaving a hole on the window itself). Luckily she was asleep in the other room, or she might have gotten hit...

This article discusses how lightning can actually pass through windows...it might be a good idea to hide under the bed the next bad thunderstorm!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_lightning

Subject: That wasn't thunder

That wasn't thunder you were hearing. It was Sarah Palin bombing miserably in her debate tomorrow night. That's right...she bombed so badly it broke through the space time continuum.

Subject: Re: That wasn't thunder

bradedward wrote: That wasn't thunder you were hearing. It was Sarah Palin bombing miserably in her debate tomorrow night. That's right...she bombed so badly it broke through the space time continuum.

space time continue-whattie?
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