Wow, excellent discription of a storm...loved it. I am glad you dusted it off to repost ... by the way, I love watching a real thunderstorm...

 

Mariaxx

Luckily they say lightning never strikes in the same place twice.

Hi Maria,

 

I like watching thunderstorms too. Ironically, I was watching a thunderstorm when I wrote this poem. It was six in the evening, yet the sky was as black as midnight. I wish I'd had a camera back then. I could have taken some pictures. It was such a magnificent thunderstorm and a pleasure to watch.

 

 

Poetess

xx

Lightning always seems to strike me twice. Oops! There it goes again.

Watch out, Steve. I'm on top form again tonight.

Loved this, Poetess, I do like storms and all that goes with them,

until the lightning gets too close....

then I do not, well captured in words, thanks for reposting, Zy

 

and Peter...you brought a lump to my throat with what you said in those last few moments about moi...thank you, and I meant what I said in my reply in that (almost last) moment of that board. We have had some grand times, haven't we, lol.

Thanks for the link, I cannot get out of my own thread when I have gone back in, Zy x

Hi Philip,

 

I don't know what lightning does for us either (apart from providing us with a spectacular display, of course). However, I found this article, which may be of some interest:

 

 

I'll post this link in the Podium thread too as I think that it might be a good topic for a debate.

 

Poetess

xx

Hi Peter,

 

I used the link...

...before I remembered that I'd kept mine active too (doh!).

I just have so many memories from the old Beeb board! I can't believe that I was only there for a couple of months. Thanks for that!

 

Poetess

xx

Hi Zy,

 

I love watching storms too. Thunderstorms, snowstorms... I love them.

I just don't like going out in them.

 

Poetess

xx

What a great description of a storm!  Since being on the 7th floor and having long windows both in the living room and the kitchen; I tend to hide when the lightning comes for fear it will come thru the windows lol.  I have tried taking pictures thru the glass and it doesn't work.  My windows slide halfway open and are too high to take pics on the outside.

 

Steve if you think lightning doesn't strike twice, you need to see "War of the Worlds" with Tom Cruise lol.  Sorry that I cannot access that link for never belonged to the Beeb board.  Maybe someone could copy and paste it in here so I could?