is there anyone out there who is scared of thunderstorms ?

Used to work with a guy years ago who was terrified of them. Pussy. 

Seen houses struck before.  Always wary of them but not frightened.

Matty.

They're mind-numbingly boring if that counts? 

My Gran was.

After I spent  some time with her as a small child,  apparently so was I ! - parents were furious !

Grew out of it pretty quickly though  when I was back  amongst  more level headed adults.

My Gran was also scared of thunder.  She used to sit in the understairs cupboard with a cardigan over her head!  Sadly she was sitting right next to the Electric meter, so she hadnt really thought that through .

My Dad told me that before Mum and him were married they went to Budleigh Salterton (I think) with Gran and Pop and as they were entering the town there was a thunderstorm going on.  Apparently aforesaid cardigan was produced and she put it over her head

If I'm inside a building or in a car, then not at all. However, having once been close enough to a ground strike that it knocked me to the ground (this was in Mexico not the UK), and another experience of a TS on an exposed mountain ridge in Cumbria, then a certain amount of fear factor now kicks in and I really don't care to be outside when a storm is anywhere near.

Back in 87 I was watching a storm from my cottage which was situated on top of a hill, it had a lean-to kitchen and also a tin porch, this was a particularly violent lightning storm and had a feeling I'd best watch it from the porch, this was a bad idea because the first strike hit the porch chucking me backwards into the kitchen landing on my arse, the ex wife dragged me into the sitting room just before the second bolt came straight through the kitchen roof and destroyed most of roof and kitchen contents, the rain did for the rest. I don't think I was hit but I remember my long hair was straight as was the hair on my arms and legs. So, I can't say that I'm scared of lightning but since then I've been a lot more wary when I see a good storm coming.

Edit, It must have been 86 as the 87 storm took the main roof off and a part of my new extension roof. Not a lot of luck back then.

I don't mind a good lightning show that I could spectate from the relative safety of my house, it's when it comes with torrential rain and damaging squally gusts that it becomes a bit of a headache.

I remember being told my granny used to turn the mirrors to the wall when there was a thunder storm coming.

Eitherway.

I just love them.

As I said earlier in the heat & storms watch thread, I have a very strong dislike of thunderstorms. I do still have a fear of them, although it isn't the almost crippling fear I had of them when I was a sprog.

My dislike of t-storms almost certainly stems from when I first experienced one, which was one Thursday night in late July 1985. The summer of 1985 was a pretty cool and wet one in my area, but from what I can gather there was a brief warmer period during the final week of the month. I read somewhere a while back that on the evening of Thurs 25th July '85, storms broke out over parts of Northern Ireland and these then travelled north-east towards south-west Scotland, and eventually the Glasgow area. As I said above, I'm almost certain that the storm I remember in July '85 was on a Thursday night so there's a pretty good chance it was the same night as the storms that started over N Ireland and then moved towards the west of Scotland. My abiding memory of that night is hiding under my bed duvet as the storm got nearer and the loudness and frequency of the thunder increased, and although it seemed to go on for ages at the time it probably didn't last for any longer than an hour or so.

Going back to a time outwith my memory range here, but seemingly June 1982 saw several days in Glasgow during that month with thunder.My mum has a memory of taking me out for an afternoon walk (I was only 2 at this time!) and while the weather directly above did not seem terribly threatening, there was faint rumbling in the distance, although eventually no proper storm took place.

I love watching thunderstorms as long as I`m indoors, I wouldn`t be very happy to be outdoors in one.

Had two good storms while we were in Seahouses last week.