QUESTION OF THE DAY, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 2021

[neely]

We've been having major thunderstorms the past two days. Yesterday I came home to find branches and limbs from the neighbor's tree in our yard. Tonight we had loud claps of thunder, lightning and gusty winds. Since we lost power once and are supposed to get more storms tomorrow I decided to post Wednesday's Question of the Day a bit early just in case we lose power again.


My husband loves to sit and watch storms especially if there's lightning but I prefer to be as far away from the windows as possible. Fortunately Carleton is not the least bit concerned if there's a storm brewing. In fact, he sat on my lap tonight perfectly content to snooze.

SO FOR WEDNESDAY'S QUESTION OF THE DAY - DO YOU LIKE STORMY WEATHER?

 

[Kat0121]

Not really. I find them kind of annoying. We get a lot of thunderstorms here during the rainy season. The girls don't pay a lick of attention to them. They are Florida natives.

 

[DreamerRose]

No, I don't like thunderstorms. In this part of the Midwest, they often bring tornadoes with them. That I definitely don't like. if there is a lot of thunder, my kitties do get upset.

 

[strider rose]

depends ... if i am sleeping then its ok but when i am awake i dont want the lights to go out

 

[game misconduct]

i love stormy weather sleep so good with the window cracked on cold stormy nights buried under a blanket fishing at the beach is great to in stormy weather

 

[Lari]

Looks like a branch came down in our yard from the latest storm earlier. Not sure if it was from our yard or a neighbor's.

I don't love storms, but I know they have their plave and don't hate them, either. I like sleeping while it's raining, but the thunder and lightning can be distracting, and it scares Sparkle.

 

[Tobermory]

Storms here mean lightning. Lightning means wildfires. So no, I dread them!

 

[TMcats]

I LOVE story weather so much!! I love just sitting outside and watching everything move!!

 

[Tik cat's mum]

Love it have done since I was little. My dad used to sit at the door watching the lightning with us as kid's. I did it with all mine counting in between the lightning and thunder, looking for the big flash of lightning. I know a few people that are really on edge with them, my sister in law is terrified. So maybe dad did me a favour watching from the safety of the house.

 

[mani]

I love the energy of them.. I seem to drink it in.
I don't like it if they seem like they could get out of control of course. Or if I'm at sea. But other than that, love it.

 

[vince]

I like the sound of the hard rain on the roof. My cats don't seem to mind storms, either.

 

[DownTheLane]

I love stormy weather! As long as all the cats are safe and sound indoors of course. I love watching thunderstorms and trying to properly see the bolts. It has the kind of vibe where I want to wrap up in a blanket, get cozy and not have to do anything

 

[Norachan]

I do really like watching them, but I have to admit they can be a bit inconvenient. We get power cuts from thunder storms or trees coming down and there is always loads of clearing up to do the day after a storm goes through.

I'm fortunate enough to live in a part of Japan that gets monsoons, typhoons and blizzards. Just lucky I guess......

 

[NY cat man]

I can take it or leave it. I've been through 2 hurricanes on land- in one of them, Hurricane Hazel, a tornado demolished one of our outbuildings but missed house and barns- and 3 while at sea. I've had close encounters with lightning, of the kind that go snapflashBOOM, and just recently we got over 4 inches of rain in about 2 hours, and our back yard was transformed into a wading pool. Then there are the snowstorms endemic to western NY. We no longer worry about losing power because we have our standby generator. We may lose the internet, but that's what books are for.
Edit: this dates back 10 years, when I came home from work to find that we had 2 new trees in our back yard.

 

[artiemom]

I do not mind thunderstorms. Geoffrey freaks out— under bed, or in the bathroom, near his litter box. Poor thing.

I like to watch the lightning over the ocean.

Snow is a different story. I hate snow!!

 

[allmykitties]

No, I'm still scarred, I think from the Labor Day storm of '98. At the time, I lived about a quarter mile away from the church in the picture at the top of the article.

Today in History: Labor Day Storm, 1998

Today in History: Labor Day Storm, 1998

www.cnyhistory.org

 

[neely]

When I woke up this morning the first thing I did was check the backyard - part of our neighbor's fence came down from last night's storm. While watching the news I heard 99,000 customers lost power overnight. I saw a car split in half by a tree and unfortunately there's another strong storm predicted for tonight.

 

[bbdoll22]

I love snowstorms.
As for thunder storms it depends. In 2018 we had a severe storm with straight line winds and it blew down 3 big pine trees that totaled my car, damaged my husbands truck and trailer and my roof had to be replaced due to major holes and water damage.
I do like the soft rolling thunder but I hate the wind and lightning when it’s close by.

 

[verna davies]

I don't mind them, I quite enjoy watching the energy of them but I have three large oaks close to my house and it makes me a little nervous.

 

[KittyJ]

I love when it's dark, cloudy, and windy. I don't really like when it rains though.