Thunder & Screaming Children

[martinastro]

Here's a video clip I took on Aug 24th of several rumbles of thunder over Maghera. Check out the screaming of the Children lol.

[Big Dipper]

Very entertaining clip Martin - loved it!

The screaming kids were the icing on the cake! Perhaps their parents never told them that thunder is only the Angels moving furniture! 

[markt]

Lol!    I work in a school and everytime it thunders the kids start screaming.  It's a ripple effect, one of the screams and it starts all of them off! 

[rjgjr]

Children and pets are very entertaining in thunderstorms. I'll never forget the first time my boys experienced thunder was in the Midwest on a vacation in the early 90's. We spent the night in Kansas and had a thunderstorm materialize in the middle of the night and unleash it's fury. Needless to say nobody got any sleep the rest of the night!

[martinastro]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts and experiences everyone. They were a joy to read. Brings back that feeling of both fear and excitement experienced from younger days. Good to get those feelings again. 

[Tyler]

LOL to the children screaming, reminds me of my first thunderstorm in California, it was a big electrical storm, only get thunderstorms once or twice a year out there, it was quite frightening.

[Roman White]

I'll never forget the first time my boys experienced thunder was in the Midwest on a vacation in the early 90's.

Is the thunder such a rare event in Oregon?

P.S. I enjoy falling asleep during an evening thunderstorm. 

[rjgjr]

Like most areas, it depends on where you live. At that time we lived in Southern California, the mountains and deserts have summertime thunderstorms, but not along the coast where we were. You might hear a couple of rumbles a year. Same here in Oregon. The mountains and high deserts generate thunderstorms through afternoon heating. Here on the Oregon coast, there is no heating, this zone is too temperate. Our summertime highs are in the mid 60's and lows in the mid 50's. Winter time our storms come straight out of the Gulf of Alaska, but still very mild. We usually don't receive much rain from May through October, and then receive 90" the other 6 months.

[jgs001]

Very good Martin. What is it with kids of today, mine are just the same, scared silly by a little sky rumble... As a kid (my eldests age) I used to love sitting on the window sill watching the lightning and listening to the thunder... can't do it now, when we actually do get a storm around here, as everyone else in the house is frightened silly.

We had quite a storm system trundle through whilst on holiday, didn't get to see any of it, but the noise was amazing. There seemed to be multiple storm centres passing over.

[JohnC]

That was  real life wasn't it Lol. When we had thunderstorms when I was a toddler my parents would sit my sister and me on the w bedroom window sill and I still recall in my mind's eye one particular storm in which the lightning lit up the purple heather on the hill next to our home and also  a war time radar mast. on the hill. We lived near Liverpool and  I was told that the german bombers flew over our home . So, that's what my parents said during the TS's 'What beautiful colours' and 'wasn't that pretty' (CG.) I'm convinced that this attitude and experience caught my imagination and I've always loved TS's.   When there were TS's when I was visiting my sister and her little 'uns in days gone by I explained to them what thunder is - I just cannot be doing with parents, adults telling kids the sort of things we hear about, clouds banging into each other, God being angry, God walking across heaven, Angels moving furniture   ?? Lol..I quite like that one, giants fighting and whatever else.