Truly amazing Thunder & Lightning Storm in The West Mids this morning, I was awoken by the Bang from The Thunder & then a blinding Flash from The Lightning, the rain was like something you would see in India or Thailand in the Monsoon season.
As the ground is so baked dry all the water ran off & the whole street became a river, I was awoken around 4:20am & went out into the garden wearing only my cut-off jeans & nothing else as I love a great storm & to jump around in the rain as I play Burzum - Et Hvitt Lys Over Skogen (White Light over The Forest)
Out of all the weather we get on this Island it's Thunder & Lightning I really love, I know to be outside in the worst storm of the year isn't too wise but it's the RAW POWER of Nature I love & am humbled by every time.
Every dog in the street was going mad as it was so powerful & the flash in the sky was unlike anything I have seen in decades, it was a Storm I will remember for quite some time.
To take a kind of Animism-lite view of it I can grasp how in the old days how Cavemen types could see an event like that as "The Gods" being happy or angry etc, I still can see in a way how "The Gods" could be seen as having one hell of a party up in the sky & the Thunder & Lightning is the result of HP Lovecraft's Nath-Horthath off his head on DXM & Moonshine doing some dance of War & Destruction (like Shivya does in the Tandava)
I always think what Cavemen people must have been thinking when they were witness to a Storm like what came over today or a Blood Moon etc, I would truly love to get really loaded on a dose of 7-9 dry grams of Liberty Caps / Psilocybe semilanceata & go sit naked or just wearing cut-off jeans on the top of a Hill & watch the Sky split in a flash of White Anger & then hear that BANG, it makes even the most Ego filled person HUMBLE as you grasp that "you" as a person isn't important & are equal at the very best to a grain of Sand on the Beach.
"lightning can heat the air it passes through to 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit (5 times hotter than the surface of the sun). When lightning strikes a tree, the heat vaporizes any water in its path possibly causing the tree to explode or a strip of bark to be blown off."




Long Exposure of a Tree being hit by Lightning
How anyone cannot be stopped in their tracks, have the mind go "blank" in Pure Awe at this is beyond me, I am shocked & humbled by stuff like a Tsunami & really strong wind but for me the ultimate K.O. blow is always in Thunder & Lightning.
I always felt everyone knew about counting the seconds to figure out how far the storm is away, I did think today with so much rain that had fallen & made small rivers all over the place if some Lightning hit the floor could the Electric run right through the flow of water & maybe "cook" someone who is standing in it?
I know LIlly-bert the cocker-poo HATES a good storm, she gets very terrified, goes to the door & will do a loud bark at it, the moment another strike comes she gets terrified & runs off, give it a moment & she sneaks back out from under the sofa to do another bark again.