Poll: Do you like or dislike thunderstorms?

Question

and why!
I love them, especially the strong winds, loud thunder and streaks of lightening. It's amazing.

Answer 1

Like them A LOT! For the reasons you do, plus, my Dad and I used to watch them together when I was little. So I still love to watch and listen to them today.

Answer 2

I love thunderstorms! Sometimes they are so hard and fierce that they knock out all the power, which is fun. I am usually ridiculously afraid of the dark, but the dark doesn't seem so menancing during a thunderstorm, because I open the curtains and watch the lightening streak across the sky, and I am a little less scared. It makes it fun and sort of calming to listen to a thunderstorm in the dark...

Answer 3

I used to love them. Now however, I know the damage they do (the wind and rain and lightening) and get a little scared when we have thunderstorms, cower and cross my fingers that nothing bad will happen. We don't get a lot of true thunderstorms where I live but when we do, trees come toppling over crushing houses and cars, fences get blown away and go crashing through someone's windows, roof tiles go flying, places flood, hillsides and the houses on them go mudsliding down, the lightening starts fires that burn up miles and miles and miles of forests and homes and things. Electric wires come down so things in the frig and freezer go bad, can't watch tv or use the computer (if you have an electric stove and heater, then you can't even heat up anything). But I used to love them intensely.

Answer 4

I dislike them! They spawn Tornado's, set homes on fire, kill people that walk barefoot outside in a storm, and the last thunderstorm we had, it blew my internet card out and I had to buy and install a new one.

I live at the top of a rise,(hill), on 90 acres of land. In 18 years that I have lived here, I can't count on my hands and feet, how many times it struck here. I lost Pecan trees & Oak trees, almost got hit 5 times, and had several sheets of the tin roofs blow off.

You can have all of the thunderstorms you want. I'll give them to you free!

Answer 5

I BEEN caught in most of them
the novelty has worn a bit thin for me now

i dont like wind
i hate wind
i dont like walking around in the wind
nor the depressing howling sound of wind
and the never ending miniscule bits of street grit blown into the eyes by the wind
well!.....that annoys me to a point of complete distraction

Answer 6

I quite like them. I feel like that slightly scared exciting feeling. Before they start the atmosphere has that creepiness about it .When they get going they are quite exciting to watch the lightening, thunder and pouring rain. They leave that nice fresh smell afterwards as well.

Answer 7

Awesome display of power!
which I do love about them,but the
lightining I fear! I have had two close
with nearly being struck by it,and I
figure strike three I'm out!! so I would
have to say both(although hate is a
little strong).

Answer 8

Love them, especially when at the beach (inside of course) over the water they are really beautiful and the thunder even more intense

Answer 9

When I was a kid, I liked them because they scared my old maid aunt who lived at our house. She used to sit in a kitchen chair, rock back & forth while she hugged herself tightly. She was a mean old woman. Not patience with us kids at all, always yelling at us.
One day, a huge branch of this big old willow tree crashed onto the roof, practically over her head. Oh my! That was something, watching her!
Later in my life, we went thru a bad storm and the edge of a tornado, in a mobile home. And I got scared of storms then. Had a phobia, had a hard time for years.
Probably payback time for laughing at my aunt.

Answer 10

In bed with a storm outside - nothing like it - apart from crashing waves.

Outside in one; getting soaked and the feel of the air afterwards. Makes it feel good to be alive.

Driving in one when all the traffic crawls along because there's a bit of rain - hate that...