My wife hated thunderstorms. If one started at night I’d wake up half strangled. She’d wrap herself around me like the antibodies wrapped Raquel in Fantastic Voyage.
About eight years ago, a good friend got struck dead by lightning when walking on his farm. I will always remember him every time I hear thunder. Steve was really nice person.
Many years ago the local newspaper, the Arizona Daily Sun, ran a feature of past news from 50/75/100 years ago. One of them was of a man who was recovering from smallpox in what is now the downtown Flagstaff area when he sat up in his cot and was killed by lightning. “I gotta go….”
I OTOH enjoy a good light show with sound effects. A good Thunder and Lightning show will get me up to sit in the dark in front of our glass doors with beer and popcorn. My wife thinks I’m nutz, but she gets up and sits with me.
Hubby and our granddaughter, who was three or four at the time, were sitting on the front porch watching a storm. Lightning hit a tree at the top of the drive, with an incredible noise and sending pieces of wood all over the place. Amanda slid down off his lap and announced “I’m going inside now , pam-pop”. He was right behind her.
“Hubbyman, who can change the course of leaky faucets, bend licorice sticks in his bare hands. And who, disguised as Arlo, mild-mannered character for a great metropolitan comic strip, fights a never-ending battle for hugs, whoopee, and the annoyable bath…”
I hate thunderstorms shudder The only time I’ve slept through them was when I was on heavy pain meds.
Not too fond of mine blasts either, ever since that one “blast” turned out to be a 5.2 quake! We live in a town with the biggest open pit gold mine in Australia. Ever since then a lot of us ask “What that a blast or a quake” if one goes off unexpectedly!
Thunderstorms are my favorite weather. I sit on our front porch everytime we get one (well, except for those bizarre winter thunderstorms in Michigan) and just enjoy the smells, the air and the seeming calm besides the storm.
When I was still working I didn’t like having to drive to work or back home in a thunderstorm. Now I just turn off my tv and watch the light show and listen to the rumbling. Hope no one loses power, but that is what usually happens.
ah, there is something to be said about thunderstorms. Ever watch one in the distance with the lightning going off everywhere and hear the thunder rumbles in the distance. kinda cool when you look at it.
HUBBYyyyyyyMANnnnnn! Squasher of Spiders! Fearless Noise-In-The-Night Slayer! Crusher of Leg Crasps! Scratcher of Unreachable Itches (among others) ! Able to hang glass shelving in a single afternoon!
David Huie Green AmericaIsGreatItHasUs about 5 years ago
Break out the cape only when necessary.
(That’s why I never have so far.)
Charliegirl Premium Member about 5 years ago
But, where’s Luddy? Oh, that’s right, he’s under the bed.
hawgowar about 5 years ago
My wife hated thunderstorms. If one started at night I’d wake up half strangled. She’d wrap herself around me like the antibodies wrapped Raquel in Fantastic Voyage.
HappyDog/ᵀʳʸ ᴮᵒᶻᵒ ⁴ ᵗʰᵉ ᶠᵘⁿ ᵒᶠ ᶦᵗ Premium Member about 5 years ago
I love thunderstorms, especially in the middle of the night.
Little Caesar about 5 years ago
“Toxic masculinity….”
Egrayjames about 5 years ago
About eight years ago, a good friend got struck dead by lightning when walking on his farm. I will always remember him every time I hear thunder. Steve was really nice person.
louchivegas about 5 years ago
LUCKU MAN
flagmichael about 5 years ago
Many years ago the local newspaper, the Arizona Daily Sun, ran a feature of past news from 50/75/100 years ago. One of them was of a man who was recovering from smallpox in what is now the downtown Flagstaff area when he sat up in his cot and was killed by lightning. “I gotta go….”
Vangoghdog01 about 5 years ago
I OTOH enjoy a good light show with sound effects. A good Thunder and Lightning show will get me up to sit in the dark in front of our glass doors with beer and popcorn. My wife thinks I’m nutz, but she gets up and sits with me.
cwarre about 5 years ago
If Janis came running for me… I’d already be under the couch, unfortunately
Dani Rice about 5 years ago
Hubby and our granddaughter, who was three or four at the time, were sitting on the front porch watching a storm. Lightning hit a tree at the top of the drive, with an incredible noise and sending pieces of wood all over the place. Amanda slid down off his lap and announced “I’m going inside now , pam-pop”. He was right behind her.
nosirrom about 5 years ago
Hubbyman’s super power is the “Hug of Security”
Dirty Dragon about 5 years ago
Sometimes, a husband can be as comfortable as a pair of old shoes, an accessory dangling off a wife’s arm, or even a beard.
Arlo is a thundershirt.
ChessPirate about 5 years ago
“Hubbyman, who can change the course of leaky faucets, bend licorice sticks in his bare hands. And who, disguised as Arlo, mild-mannered character for a great metropolitan comic strip, fights a never-ending battle for hugs, whoopee, and the annoyable bath…”
trainnut1956 about 5 years ago
Must be a female thing. When we get a thunderstorm I sometimes go sit out on the porch to watch the electrical mayhem.
PammWhittaker about 5 years ago
I hate thunderstorms shudder The only time I’ve slept through them was when I was on heavy pain meds.
Not too fond of mine blasts either, ever since that one “blast” turned out to be a 5.2 quake! We live in a town with the biggest open pit gold mine in Australia. Ever since then a lot of us ask “What that a blast or a quake” if one goes off unexpectedly!
banjinshiju about 5 years ago
This aspect of Hubbyman shows up in my home whenever I get home from work. I love hugging my wife.
Flatlander, purveyor of fine covfefe about 5 years ago
I sleep through most of our prairie storms. She hates when I ask in the morning Did it rain last night?
Petemejia77 about 5 years ago
Thunder buddy!
Back to Big Mike about 5 years ago
Thunderstorms are my favorite weather. I sit on our front porch everytime we get one (well, except for those bizarre winter thunderstorms in Michigan) and just enjoy the smells, the air and the seeming calm besides the storm.
sjsczurek about 5 years ago
When I was a kid, I loved thunderstorms.
samfran6-0 about 5 years ago
When I was still working I didn’t like having to drive to work or back home in a thunderstorm. Now I just turn off my tv and watch the light show and listen to the rumbling. Hope no one loses power, but that is what usually happens.
i_am_the_jam about 5 years ago
Snakes, spiders, now thunderstorms? Doesn’t Janis have a backbone?
majobis. about 5 years ago
ah, there is something to be said about thunderstorms. Ever watch one in the distance with the lightning going off everywhere and hear the thunder rumbles in the distance. kinda cool when you look at it.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] about 5 years ago
Thunder was the voice of the Gods for many of them are Thunder gods.
Tyge about 5 years ago
HUBBYyyyyyyMANnnnnn! Squasher of Spiders! Fearless Noise-In-The-Night Slayer! Crusher of Leg Crasps! Scratcher of Unreachable Itches (among others) ! Able to hang glass shelving in a single afternoon!
Look! Up on the ladder…
LexSiehler about 5 years ago
Uh, anyone notice that Janice doesn’t seem to have any undies on? Or were y’all too polite to mention it…
Ceeg22 Premium Member about 5 years ago
I love thunderstorms