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catbyte

(39,373 posts) Tue Sep 1, 2020, 04:40 PM Sep 2020

JEEZUS! There was just a crack of thunder that scared the living s out of me. [View all]

It was partly cloudy 10 minutes ago. I'm minding my own business with Sammy on my lap when all of a sudden it looked like dusk outside then the living room lit up and KERBLAM!!!!!!!!!!!! I think I will have a permanent scar on my leg where Sammy launched herself off of my lap.

Ouch.

We need the rain, but criminy.

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JEEZUS! There was just a crack of thunder that scared the living s out of me. [View all] catbyte Sep 2020 OP

One hit a tree about a quarter mile away one time. It was like someone threw a flashbang in the brewens Sep 2020 #1

My cat would be hiding long before thunder that I could hear Cirque du So-What Sep 2020 #2

My cats are pretty blase about thunderstorms but this one came out of nowhere. No distant rumbles, catbyte Sep 2020 #3

Living in NE Fla, we've been having some epic lightning. Fla Dem Sep 2020 #4

Quick... hide under the bed! mysteryowl Sep 2020 #5

That how the phrase "out of the blue" originated SCantiGOP Sep 2020 #6

lightning hit my neighbors house directly across the street many years ago rurallib Sep 2020 #7

I woke last night to the sound of thunder. Yavin4 Sep 2020 #8

A few weeks ago there were HUGE thunderclaps very close by and it scared the hell out of me!! ailsagirl Sep 2020 #9

The last time I heard a crack like that, my cat came running in from outside csziggy Sep 2020 #10

Yikes. How awful. catbyte Sep 2020 #11

Yeah, it was not fun csziggy Sep 2020 #12

OMG. That would've been unthinkable. That puts things in perspective. catbyte Sep 2020 #14

I didn't notice the post count! WOW! nt csziggy Sep 2020 #13

The other day qwlauren35 Sep 2020 #15

That happened to me and my cat too lunatica Sep 2020 #16