thunder storm?

[Brucelles]

I am in Tanzania at the moment and it's the rainy season. Yesterday the weather forecast was for Thunderstorms 100%, and it was pretty accurate. I am working in a modern concrete, steel and glass building on the 8th floor and yesterday at about midday a storm started with a bang that I seriously thought was a bomb. The floor shook, the windows rattled and there was a blinding flash. If I hadn't already been empty I would have filled my pants. No-one else even looked up.

[format]

up in glasgow atm and its very noisy
few flickers from my tv and speakers have got me worried

Same, was really really loud and had to skip over large puddles and streams coming onto byres road
Was on my way to play football and it stopped

[MaddAussie]

In South Australia (where I'm originally from) we used to get some doozies, I used to sit on the back step and watch them roll over the Adelaide plains. I remember one night when we had a thunderstorm and a small earth tremor that was interesting

[Blitzen]

I was driving up the A1 to Yorkshire a few years back and a lightning bolt hit a puddle on the road in front of me.

[Brucelles]

Another interesting thing. I have a mate in Luxembourg (where Dog Soldiers was filmed) whose brand new (well, 2 months old) Audi A6 was hit by lightning and completely written off. Audi reckoned that the wiring loom is so much a part of the car that it wasn't worth repairing, and gave him a replacement.

[PsychoChimp]

I've not seen a good storm in ages

All we get in Manchester is RAIN!

Chimp