storms - are you afraid of them?

when there's thunder and lightning here you feel like it's a-bomb time all over again.

(this is a swanky way of saying what stevem said)

Every time there has been a big storm for as long as I can remember, they were coupled with tornado watches/warnings. I can't remember a storm really that hasn't had a tornado watch in the past 10 years unless it was just a very short downpour.

not especially afraid of storms but the Hull floods a few years back mean i'm a bit trepidatious when it starts hammering down like it is now. also our Joel will be on the way home from school about now poor sod

i get a bit edgy if i'm in a building with huge pains of glass, and it's very windy outside

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wheee

I'm not afraid of storms until it is rational to be afraid of them.

this one sounds like it might be massive

I'm travelling back to London tonight, another day at my sister's and I'd have been stuck there for the weekend.

ah yes, detail from paragraph two of a great ghost story if ever i heard one

safe home!

stockpile some whiskey

praying for power cut between 9am and 5pm tomorrow

the lord helps those who attack their own local fibre box at 5am

Got to be honest, big storms have started making me really anxious, the wind in particular. Sometimes I can't sleep because I'm worried a tree is going to fall through the roof.

one of my friends is still in critical condition after being hit by a tree last big storm in december

stay safe all

praying for power cut between 9am and 5pm tomorrow

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Same

i love storms. i'm not afraid of them. we don't get really big ones here though.

As a kid growing up in Southern IL: No, I thought they were amazing - the weird pink/yellow light in the sky in a particularly gnarly one was cool. We had tornado drills in school and would go down to our basement when the air raid sirens went off at least 1-2 times per Spring. We had to go to the basement of a church during a wedding for a tornado that took out several buildings in town. It never bothered me.

As and adult: Fucking A, yes. Hate to hear even howling wind. I imagine trees falling on me when I hear it.

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I’ve always loved big storms but I’ve gotten pretty circumspect about them. Big flooding here a few times in recent years and of course Helene washed away places just a few hours east. We had our first-ever August tornado in ‘23 and started ‘24 with a record snow and freeze. I still love a good big summer thunderstorm, but anything bigger is a little worrying.

i love all the storms. but also i don't own a car, or a house, and have never been seriously inconvenienced by a storm -- 'susperstorm' sandy got me a paid week off work -- so i'm a blissfully ignorant and very lucky fucker

best of luck to our irishes and scottishes v. éowyn!

Amused this morning by the Sky News presenter's pronunciation of Glasgow as Glawwwwwzgo, very Churchillian.

take care out there!

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it was pretty fucking windy

awaiting confirmation of a highest-ever measure of around 115mph

This is giving me flashbacks to being trapped on Inishmore in the remnants of a tropical storm. Good luck everyone.

Parents fence got blown down & power was gone like 8 hours.

https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2025/0124/945461-psychology-white-sliced-pan-panic-buying-weather-events/

Despite warnings that there's no need to go mad for the white sliced pan, the impending arrival of Storm Éowyn means many Irish kitchens have more white sliced pans than they might need.

So why do people go mad for the bread? According to clinical psychologist, Prof Ian Robertson, people can overestimate the risk associated with a particular event when they are "out of their routine" and taking in a pretty "saturated" news cycle. "There’s something in psychology, it’s a cognitive bias called the ‘availability heuristic’, which means that if something comes easily to mind, then you overestimate the likelihood of that happening.

Interesting, I thought pan bread (as opposed to plain bread) was purely a Scottish thing.

nope, it’s a sliced pan your only man at home, prob from pain right

Yes, it's the same stuff except plain bread tends to be more the thing in Scotland, or used to be.

Pretty sure it's from being baked in a pan rather than any French references.

storms… not fun. GGs for neighbours fence. various garage and shed roof felts gone. strong winds still gusting.

Tom D talks awfy pan loafy I've been told.

Here you, ya cheeky article.

i've been increasingly wary of storms in Los Angeles, not known as the storm capital of the world. a few years ago a thunderstorm swept in out of nowhere and knocked out our power, and the winds were gusting towards tropical storm strength for a few minutes, and then it simply vanished. everyone in the area was completely weirded out. and then the last two springs, we've had torrential downpours the likes of which we hadn't ever seen, a near-miss with a hurricane, and this recent Santa Ana event--accompanied by 100 MPH gusts of wind in our immediate area--which was the main driver of the wildfires. it's not the storms (i grew up outside Chicago and tornados were always something we were warned about), it's the fact they're showing up here in recent years with more intensity, and this isn't a region necessarily built for it.

The one last night was blooming noisy.
Ripped even more of the plastic sheeting from Our stairway canopy out. Uprooted old trees and things.
I heard it echoing around the internal structure of the building in a way I hadn't for years. Really shook the place heavily.
Just occurred to me anything preventing spread of mice up the structure may have been ripped out. I heard what sounded like an internal kitchen shelf collapse when I closed another door.
Cheap flights out of Kansas?
Can be interesting to break up daily monotony but I heard they were going to become more frequent.

Cheap flights from Kansas in your own sitting room.