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We had a big, big thunderstorm this afternoon (there was a weather warning but only for South of France).
My grocer's son told me he saw a man hurrying in the street under the heavy rain, and a lightning was running just beside him on the sidewalk! I can tell you the boy was impressed and I would have been too seeing that!
Another true thunderstorm story? Paul's grand-mother (we're talking beginning of XXth century here) was living in Morvan (center of France, an area rather wild and remote). For a living she was selling dry goods as a migrant, with a donkey. The farmers' wives payed her with rabbit skins. Her house was a stone one, just one or two rooms, with the donkey stable being part of it. One day there was a thunderstorm (usual in this place) and a lightning ball entered the stable, killed the donkey, drilled through the wall, ran under her metallic bed and out, w/o hurting her. Then she came to live with her children as she couldn't work w/o her donkey, of course.
My grocer's son told me he saw a man hurrying in the street under the heavy rain, and a lightning was running just beside him on the sidewalk! I can tell you the boy was impressed and I would have been too seeing that!
Another true thunderstorm story? Paul's grand-mother (we're talking beginning of XXth century here) was living in Morvan (center of France, an area rather wild and remote). For a living she was selling dry goods as a migrant, with a donkey. The farmers' wives payed her with rabbit skins. Her house was a stone one, just one or two rooms, with the donkey stable being part of it. One day there was a thunderstorm (usual in this place) and a lightning ball entered the stable, killed the donkey, drilled through the wall, ran under her metallic bed and out, w/o hurting her. Then she came to live with her children as she couldn't work w/o her donkey, of course.
- Feelings:
impressed
- Listening to...:Witch Hunter Robin
Comments
Actually they forecast the weekend of heat and thunderstorms here.
My grandma also once told me she had seen a lightning ball ('Kugelblitz' in German) in her youth. Modern physics for a long time declared that phenomenon to be non-existing (since they didn't have the fitting theory ;). Only in the last years they slowly accept that it might exist.
And Mom heard of somebody she knows, who lives in a town next to here, the lightning ball passed under his chair and between his legs...
When I was in my early twenties, we lived in an older home with the older screw-in fuses and the fuse box was in the kitchen. Lightning hit the electrical transformer on the pole outside and went out of the fuse box in ball form. There was the most tremendous crack</i> of thunder and my oldest son (who was around three at the time) and I hit the floor screaming. It scared the crud out of us.
I'm not ordinarily scared of storms (we're having them off and on today, in fact). But, I live in Tornado Alley, so I do respect them.
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She told me that as a child, on her way back from school with a few friends, they saw a lightning ball follow a power cable above a metallic fence.
More curious and impressive: her mother was dining with her family, sitting at a solid oak table, when a lightning entered the house, properly cut the table in two all along between them before exiting. Nobody was hurt but her mother has been deadly afraid of thunderstorm since that day.