Storms... I Love Em

i dont know about anybody else but i love a good storm......

i cant think of a better way to spend an evening watching natures lightshow, mmmmm perhaps a beer or (insert politically correct number here), and soaking up the vibe

anybodybody else?

i'm watching oneright now......nothing better than heaps of lightning flashing out over the sea..
BRING IT ON!!!!!

yeah!!
the best storm ive ever seen was sitting on west beach looking out over the sea
was all around us........

awesome

Well I just walked home from North Adelaide, and as I was coming down Torrens Road there was a mega light display....love lightning....so preeeettttttyyyyy

best one i saw was up in yepoon FNQ, on timothy leary's choice when i was 18, watching the islands light up, whilst listening to fairburn1..great memories.

off topic too, but i love the name yepoon..... heard dave callan on jjj the other evening speaking to a girl from yepoon, asking her "tell us about ye poon? whats in ye poon?"
and she answered " a statue"
he said "do you have a boyfriend?"
she answered "yes"
he said "is he in ye poon too?"
she said "yes"
he said "so there is a statue and your boyfriend in ye poon!!!"

PURE GOLD!!!!!

BACK TO THE LIGHTNING...................

i love storms to wicked to watch with the kids as they get all fired up it great just waiting fro that next big bang or light display

Being in the Grampians we get some pretty awsome storms here, because we are in the middle of the mountains the thunder just echoes( so loud ) on thursday night i saw 6 or 7 forks of lightning come down at once. it looks great but i think thats what has started the bushfires

love them specially summer storms so much lightning!

really charges me up!!

Love storms as well, nothing beats watrching so many lightning bolts in the sky..its amazing!! but not so amazing when your in a plane and lightning hits it its like a ball of fire!!!

Storms are by far one of my favorite things that I can't watch/do on cue - which makes them all the more sweeter when they happen.

Falling asleep while there's a storm going - or actually sitting outside under our pergola and watching it are top notch

I love them too! Nothing beeds a dusk storm on the murray. Lightning over sandy red cliffs and water on sunset has to be one of the most beautiful sites electricty can produce!

Rain and storms tend to help me sleep better actually. Not sure why.

thats cuz its so relaxing listening to the rain fall on the roof, i enjoy them as well, especially curled up in bed with company

I remember growing up in the N.T. I used to live with my grandma in a place called 'Humpty Doo' and in the wet season you would get storms that would blow your socks off. So much lightning and thunder, and rain that you just had to run out and play in

Also remember flying up to Darwin once and seeing a storm from above. Massive clouds and streaks of lightning flashing all through them...that was pretty unforgettable.

that would have been way cool....seeing it happening from a different perspective...nice

Storms storms glorious storms
Theres nothing quite like watching a storm


MMMMM BIg flashy things in the sky
ARGGHHHH what was that noise

EEEK...........

electrical storms rock!

but I must admit I get nervous if I am out in the open

would be just my luck!

Storms are awesome i used to be soo scared when i was really small of them.

anything with multifork lightning and foul claps of thunder do me well

saw a lightning bolt hit my clothes line once that was bery cool

scared the crappage out of me though

any have any photos that theyve taken of lightning?

post them here

sailing a 125 ( 2 person dingy) had the kite up, my crew out on trap pushing 35-50knott wind speeds (125s are wind rated to 20-25) Australia day race in port lincoln few(many) yrs ago we had a storm hit badly, thunder and lightning when u have an 18foot peice of aluminium stuck in the sky and steel cables all around you.. FUN FUN FUN!

we had a lightnig strike about 2 boat lenghts in front of us, the static electricity snapped my battons( figerglass strips in the sails to stiffen them) straight thru my sails and shreaded my main sail.

awesome power of nature. it went from dead calm to 35-50 knotts in a matter of minutes. that storm also traveled across the gulf ot devestate adelaide with in an hr of hitting port lincoln whiping out the Heron ( another msall class of yatch) Nationals.

being in the middle of that storm was an awe inspiring feeling, the buzz around you and the hype.

love a storm!

I would have had to change my jocks!

i was in a wet suit.. so anything that required a change of jocks would of been rather messy!

but it was so much fun. we sailed my yatch straight up the beach then bailed back out on a rescue boat to help out. diving of the rescue boat to grab the kiddies from their smaller yatchs and then sail the smaller boats into shore. we had a Mosquito (catermaran) out fo control and wedge itsself under the wharf.

there was 3 boats lost and not found in adelaide from the storm.

such sheer power and ferocity is nothing short of amazing.

but in reailty... its nothing compared to the sydney to hobart races and larger yatch races face.

the storm we hit in the middle of spencer gulf on the Prawn trawler that had us nearly airborn off the lips of waves and then almost submerged when dropping down the face of the waves into the troughs would have to be the most fearful moment of my life. strapped to the deck with saftey harnes's and vomiting from fear/sea sickness in monster seas and storms..

the next day.. dead calm not a cloud in the sky or a breaze in the air..

i think nature just likes to show us who is boss at times..

I've been out trawling in tassie waters...fuck me! I only did it once to see what my dad does and my god, the waves were literally like what DeL was saying...only it lasted most of the frigging trip hahaha anyone up for sea sickness?

whats a yatch? is that a bit like a hatch?

i think ive asked you that before.........

pronounced 'yot' for you CrIs P


mmm, yeah must say I was nervous walking through North Adelaide golf course at 2am this morning....surrunded by lightning rods dressed up as big trees

I love storms...

I remember (probably about 10 years back) that massive storm that wrecked most of the jetties along the coastline... I was standing at the end of the Henley jetty and the crest of the waves were almost the same height as it...

I love watching the sea during a storm!!

Yes sir 2 years back was drivig through the blue mountains, lightning lit up the gullies and the cliffs like pure day light ..man what a sight..........

was also some great flashes last night on the way back from the bay at 3am woo!

storms are awesome

there should be an awesome storm tonite and tomorrow

Lights camera action

depends on the storm. i have never been in a REAL bad one... but yeah i love em 2... i keep trying to take a good photo of lightening but not been able to yet :-(

ahh Lightning.... one of the most powerful, and beautiful forms of nature.

I love when you out laying on a nice falt field of grass, the time is around the 9- 10 mark, so its getting/is very dark. and then you see a brilliant fork of thunder in the background. then hearing the boom a few seconds after reminds you it was there, and how powerful it was.

no....... yatch is pronounced yatch

yacht is pronounced yot

smart arse

wacht?

oh nevermind, i forgacht.


Im doing a raindance for a storm tonight!

Is it working old skoolie

http://www.bom.gov.au/gms/IDE00005.200601221030.shtml

nope

i remember driving out to the middle of one of our really open paddocks that was a little way up a hill... parking with the nose of the car pointed towards the mount, and lying on the mattress in the tray of the ute, and just watching the show in 240* vision... was the nicest and most awesome nights - it wasnt cold and it wasnt hot, you didnt need a jumper and it didnt rain... just a nice dry storm - which actually are the more fearsome ones...

infact... that paddock got quite a workout when it was a bright quiet night and you just wanted to get away from the house and star gaze....

... now i want to go back to the farm...
*packs her things*

dont pick on me for my spelling... u all know how bad i am.. my dyslexia should be exscused by now!

yatch yacht yot or yawt... same dif to me!

finally my power is back on.. been out since 7pm last night

have fun!

Storms are AWSOME if they happen during the hot weather! The perfect day: Hot all day, 5-6 starts raining just before sun goes down mad storms happen

my dog freaks out during thunderstorms its so cute. she will jump on you and cuddle while shaking. aawww.

I love storms i remember watching one over lake alexandrina a few years back- sitting outside dads place wrapping in my sleeping bag- i was so cosy and it was so pretty.
storms scare my dogs though- its very hard enjoying a storm when youve got 3 dogs that the vet makes you give valium to during storms- stress heads try chasing a terrorfied dog around and sticking something down its throat- not so easy. theyre still cute though

storms are great, especially with really heavy rain on a tin roof... so soothing!

I remember years ago (when i was a kid) getting chairs and sitting under the verandah in an electrical storm and just watching it. it was beautiful, especially because it was in summer and it was lovely and warm.

i love queensland for that reason
when i was over there a few years back there was a storm every night

There's no better storm in Australia than in the tropics...FNQ is pretty good (haven't seen too many in Cairns yet) but Darwin has some kick A**E storms.

Hence the song "This is Australian" something about when thunder and lightening crack over cane fields...

and gave me a vegemite.......sandwich..........

love that song!!

off topic? who cares, my thread............

cris... wrong song! the one your singing is "Land Down Under" by "Men at Work"!

taz... "This is Australia" by "Midnight Oil" !!

no not wrong

the line crack over cane fields comes from the men at work song.............

wanna fight??



i dont.................. *runs away screaming*

i beg to differ!!

Men at Work mention thunder, but no carcking of it over cane fields!... we should stop this... i don't want to embarasse you!

ok you win i embarrass myself bad enough withou the help of others...........

the cracking over cane fields lyric was by o group called ganggajang (sounds of then) this is australia

we were both wrong

love storms.. especially summer ones

and vegemite sandwiches.. not just in summer... all the time. I had one for dinner last night in fact... no storm to go with it tho.