⛈️⚡ Storms are awesome! I used to live in Iowa (Midwestern U.S.), and the summer always provided excellent thunderstorms, bringing booming, window rattling thunder and blinding lighting all over the sky, with frequently visible lightning strikes to the ground! Then the sweet, pungent smell of ozone on the ever increasing wind. Soon after, heavy downpours making huge puddles to jump in, or floods! Ah, I miss those thunderstorms . . .
Now I live in the beautiful Pacific NW, and we get a lot of precipitation where I live, but rarely thunderstorms, and even when we do, it's usually just thunder rumbles, maybe a few good cracks, a lightning show and high winds, then some weak rain. It’s not nearly as thrilling as Midwestern thunderstorms. Also, Iowa had tornadoes. Highly destructive and dangerous, but thrilling beyond words to watch, from a safe distance, of course!
Here we have tsunamis, but I live too far inland to experience the bulk of those. The earthquakes are a trip though. The first one I experienced happened in 2001 at a magnitude of 6.8. Fortunately (for me), it originated fairly far from my home at the time, mitigating much of it's force, but it was still strong enough to make my supposedly 100% waveless waterbed toss me to the floor in my sleep as the mattress crested to a few impressive waves before calming down. Totally freaked me out. Caused a fair bit of damage to the area too.
Is it normal to love storms and rain
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⛈️⚡ Storms are awesome! I used to live in Iowa (Midwestern U.S.), and the summer always provided excellent thunderstorms, bringing booming, window rattling thunder and blinding lighting all over the sky, with frequently visible lightning strikes to the ground! Then the sweet, pungent smell of ozone on the ever increasing wind. Soon after, heavy downpours making huge puddles to jump in, or floods! Ah, I miss those thunderstorms . . .
Now I live in the beautiful Pacific NW, and we get a lot of precipitation where I live, but rarely thunderstorms, and even when we do, it's usually just thunder rumbles, maybe a few good cracks, a lightning show and high winds, then some weak rain. It’s not nearly as thrilling as Midwestern thunderstorms. Also, Iowa had tornadoes. Highly destructive and dangerous, but thrilling beyond words to watch, from a safe distance, of course!
Here we have tsunamis, but I live too far inland to experience the bulk of those. The earthquakes are a trip though. The first one I experienced happened in 2001 at a magnitude of 6.8. Fortunately (for me), it originated fairly far from my home at the time, mitigating much of it's force, but it was still strong enough to make my supposedly 100% waveless waterbed toss me to the floor in my sleep as the mattress crested to a few impressive waves before calming down. Totally freaked me out. Caused a fair bit of damage to the area too.