[bloodrayne]

Originally Posted by Ash's_evil_hand

I envy you the storms Rayne. Lightning storms have to be my favourite type of weather - ever since I was a kid, as soon as a storm starts you can guarantee I've got my nose pressed against the window pane searching for lightning strikes.

Unfortunately where we live we only get maybe half a dozen storms a year. We don't get a lot of extremes which has its advantages but it's just so BORING!

Actually, now that you mention it, I guess I should gratefully accept this, because if the weather WAS more 'normal' here, we most likely wouldn't get all of our storms, and I would miss them terribly...So, I guess I have to accept it as "You take the good, you take the bad..."...I just REALLY hate the freaking snow

I was discussing this with a friend who just moved here from only 20 miles away...It was a couple nights ago...We were sitting in a Chinese restaurant, it had been hot and sunny when we walked in...Then, it started storming, MAJORLY...We were sitting next to a wall that was all window, and I was watching the storm (hoping that the kids had rolled their windows up), when she commented on how odd it was...Then she brought up a couple weeks ago when it had been VERY hot as she left her house, but while she was driving about an hour later it started raining...Then came the sleet...and THEN, dime-sized balls of hail were pelting her car...lol...She made me aware of how odd the weather really is here, when I had always just been used to it...

An outsider's view can really open your eyes...Just as you did when you mentioned that you rarely have storms

And when it storms HERE, we're either sitting on the front porch, or sitting in the parlor with the front door wide open :)