As I type this there's just been a FLASH!...1...2...3...4...5.BANG!RUMBLERUMBLE of an electrical storm about 1 mile away. The weird thing is that electrical storms are almost always exactly about 1 mile away from me. Unless they're hundreds of miles away, obviously, but you know what I mean.
Only once ever have I been closer than that and that was in Bucharest the night of the total eclipse in '99 (there was one small cloud in the Bucharest sky as totality hit - guess where it was relative to us and the sun/moon). Having been underwhelmed by the experience of the eclipse I was shown natures true mighty might when the mother of all storms broke directly overhead. I got woken up by the noise (n.b. I am a heavy sleeper and slept through the demolition of our garden gate directly below my bedroom window in teh 87 hurricane) and went to have a look at the flashing and a listen to the banging. As I opened the balcony door the block next to ours got hit by lightning and it was honestly the closest I have ever come to shitting myself since I was about 6 years old.
Oh, and I'd always thought you wouldn't hear lightning if it struck that close as all the sounds waves would be going away from you. What a load of cock. Mind-biggeringly loud, that's how loud it was.
What's the closest you've ever come to being struck by lightning?
Only once ever have I been closer than that and that was in Bucharest the night of the total eclipse in '99 (there was one small cloud in the Bucharest sky as totality hit - guess where it was relative to us and the sun/moon). Having been underwhelmed by the experience of the eclipse I was shown natures true mighty might when the mother of all storms broke directly overhead. I got woken up by the noise (n.b. I am a heavy sleeper and slept through the demolition of our garden gate directly below my bedroom window in teh 87 hurricane) and went to have a look at the flashing and a listen to the banging. As I opened the balcony door the block next to ours got hit by lightning and it was honestly the closest I have ever come to shitting myself since I was about 6 years old.
Oh, and I'd always thought you wouldn't hear lightning if it struck that close as all the sounds waves would be going away from you. What a load of cock. Mind-biggeringly loud, that's how loud it was.
What's the closest you've ever come to being struck by lightning?
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