I love them, too. I've seen some doozies when we lived in Chicago but they're hard to really appreciate with all the buildings and stuff in the way.
We did drive through this HUGE storm once in the middle of Illinois while traveling back from my inlaws. It was getting nasty but we were trying to push through to a town because there were tornado warnings going out and we didn't want to be stuck on the side of the road. Then this lightning hit really close. I know it was close because we were all momentarily blinded and actually FELT the concussion of it. Everything vibrated and thunder was so loud we all screamed.
It's pretty scary to be doing 70mph on the Interstate and be momentarily blinded. That happened twice and then, luckily, we found a gas station and pulled off the road until the storm passed. I like to watch them, not drive in them.
We don't get storms out here. It just rains. Occasionally we get a roll of thunder and a couple lightning bursts in the distance but that's it. My brother has lived in the area for 13 years and he says that's the one thing he really misses about the midwest... the big storms. Of course he didn't have to go through the tornado warning last summer that knocked down the fence in my dad's yard, rocked our BRICK house so hard you could feel it, have to hide kids in the basement, debris flying every where, trees down, roofs blown off. And that was a mild storm (tornado didn't actually touch down but it was windy).
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We did drive through this HUGE storm once in the middle of Illinois while traveling back from my inlaws. It was getting nasty but we were trying to push through to a town because there were tornado warnings going out and we didn't want to be stuck on the side of the road. Then this lightning hit really close. I know it was close because we were all momentarily blinded and actually FELT the concussion of it. Everything vibrated and thunder was so loud we all screamed.
It's pretty scary to be doing 70mph on the Interstate and be momentarily blinded. That happened twice and then, luckily, we found a gas station and pulled off the road until the storm passed. I like to watch them, not drive in them.
We don't get storms out here. It just rains. Occasionally we get a roll of thunder and a couple lightning bursts in the distance but that's it. My brother has lived in the area for 13 years and he says that's the one thing he really misses about the midwest... the big storms. Of course he didn't have to go through the tornado warning last summer that knocked down the fence in my dad's yard, rocked our BRICK house so hard you could feel it, have to hide kids in the basement, debris flying every where, trees down, roofs blown off. And that was a mild storm (tornado didn't actually touch down but it was windy).