This morning I logged onto Facebook and saw so many “I was hiding under my bed last night” type status updates I was shocked, ok the thunder was pretty loud a couple times but Jesus, anxiety attacks? Being afraid for your life? Please, you are ADULTS not 5 year olds the only time you should be afraid of a lightning storm is if you find yourself tied to a flagpole at the top of a treeless hill in the middle of it. —Likes Lightning

This article appears in Jun 2-8, 2011.

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  1. Lemme guess, you’re the type of person who gets offended when someone de-friends you as well?

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  3. Noo I just think people are being stupid and I never said it offended me… This isn’t a Facebook bitch it’s a people are stupid and over-reacting bitch. I bet you were hiding under the bed weren’t you 😉

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  4. ^^^ ahahaha <3, PG. :)

    Cheese and rice I fell ASLEEP when it started getting really bad. My cat didn’t even give two shits either. She just laid there with me purring her ass off.

    I had people who put those statuses up too. These people have kids — what are they going to do when their kid come into bed with them all “I’m afraid, mommy!!!”?

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  6. fucking pathetic little pussies. that’s what these people are. and i use the term people, very fucking loosely. i have seen what lightning can do, firsthand. and hiding under a bed, or a closet won’t help, if it hits your house.
    it will blow the fuck out of it. and if you are unlucky enough to be standing close, you will get it too.

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  8. “the only time you should be afraid of a lightning storm is if you find yourself tied to a flagpole at the top of a treeless hill in the middle of it.”

    I’ll remember that next time I’m on the golf course…
    I’m not tied to the flagpole so I’ll be fine….

    *shakes head*

    I still can’t believe I slept through this…
    everyone has been telling me how awesome it was.

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  9. TY paingirl, your’s as well. (How very true) and my humblest apologies…I’ll work on getting an avatar asap

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  10. it wasn’t that good zzz. it was only passable as a thunderstorm in my book. if it don’t shake the fuck out your house, then it ain’t much. although, the lightning was pretty cool.

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  11. This is just plain, straight up fucked! Thor ain’t got nothing on this dude:

    http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lk9vxst6is1&hellip; ://fuckyeahndasian.tumblr.com/post/4970009773/man-gets-struck-by-lightning&usg=__UbepJ7gwgAYlxa2f8m2ZivrFFKg=&h=240&w=320&sz=484&hl=en&start=36&zoom=1&itbs=1&tbnid=ka_m8vb-DwuPqM:&tbnh=89&tbnw=118&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dperson%2Bstruck%2Bby%2Blightning%26start%3D20%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26gbv%3D2%26biw%3D1260%26bih%3D864%26ndsp%3D20%26tbm%3Disch&ei=H73nTfLnCqr50gHZ2-HBCg

    *shakes head* Hey-zeus!

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  16. Well my reasoning is if you are playing golf and thunder and lightning starts you can put down your club and head for cover *shakes head* if you choose to carry on you’re kind of asking for it…

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  17. Avatar posted, paingirl, (and others who may care). The best I could do on short notice and using my P.O.S. work computer!

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  19. I love that scene: “Hey Hipster, did I fire 6 shots or…some obscure number you’ve probably never heard of” Rawk!

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  20. I just meant you’re one of those people that take Facebook too seriously. I’m sure these people weren’t actually hiding under their bed.

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  21. Being afraid of ligthening is a lil strange, but I have no room to bitch (irrational phobia of june bugs) However something traumatic may have happened to some of the people who are afraid of storms…?

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  26. Nah I don’t really take it seriously and I’m sure most of those people couldn’t even fit under their beds or were really frightened it’s just a lame way to get attention. Like girls who scream and cry when they see a bee. I guess it’s kind of an irrational stereotype thing that I hate, people think they should react a certain way and they do. For instance when chalk squeaks, maybe I’m weird but that doesn’t really bother me but everyone else will make a big fuss. Just shut the fuck up already you know? Ok I’m done :p

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  27. Which is all fine and dandy until you’ve had a traumatic experience that was directly related to the occurance of a thunder and lightening storm. And no it didn’t involve a treeless hill or a flagpole. It involved being, what should have been, safely inside.
    Was I hiding under my bed? Not exactly. Was I having the time of my life? Not quite.

    I’m an adult woman and I will admit I was scared last night during that storm. Call me a pansie or what you will, but until you’ve walked a day in my shoes you can’t tell me when i’m allowed to be afraid and when I’m not.

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  28. We went out on the deck with a bottle of wine & watched it. At times it was a very impressive light show. I have never understood how you can be afraid of thunder. Its a noise !
    Now lightning, that can kill you, but chances are very much against it….unless you’re on a deck with a large overhead canopy made of Aluminium tubing ~;)

    But the worse thing that happened is…my honey & I ran out of wine.

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  29. Ugh, I HATE when that happens, More. I happen to love thunderstorms. Mother Nature at her absolute best. To me, it’s kind of a grounding moment (no pun intended); to see such awesome and immense power occuring at random in nature like that…I dunno, I guess I just find it to be a very humbling experience. One of the many marvels of nature that captivate and fascinate me. I feel a little less significant in the world and that’s a good thing.
    I used to be scard shitless of thunder as a kid but my mom used to tell me a story that her dad told her when she was a little girl…God has this angel named Tim and he was just rolling empty barrels down the stairs…that was thunder. It sounds lame now, I know, but back then, as a kid, I could actually visualize this Tim and he’s happily rolling 45 gallon drums down a set of stairs…(looking back, I would’ve thought heaven would have central heating..no use for oil drums….meh. I digress) and the affect was instant. One of my fondest memories from childhood…..Christ, now you guys got me all nostalgic and shit. *sniff*

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  31. Apollo 12 was struck by lightning twice during it’s launch; they went all the way to the moon and back.

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  32. My wifes home was struck in the early 80’s a day before Xmas. She remembers clearly her father and uncles tossing anything they could grab out the windows, as her mom and sisters stood on the lawn and watched the house burn. Nothing but a chimney standing by morning. She woke me in a panic the night of the storm (and every night there is thunder)…must close all the windows, unplug everything. Over a decade living with her has taught me to just accept this, but at least my influence on her now allows us to sleep in our own bed instead of on the basement floor.

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  33. I used to have a kickass, early 80s, Springsteen bootleg and I’d always play “Backstreets” during a vicious thunderboomer. Still sends shivers up me spine.

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  35. Thanks Paingirl….Clint is the man! Even today at 81 he’s still badass! He was busting heads and taking names back when Chuck Norris was just a glint in his daddy’s eye.
    I think my fave quote from one of his movies would have to be from “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly” near the end when he (Blondie) and Eli Wallach (Tucco) are in the Civil War Cemetary after finding the grave with the hidden gold and Clint says, “There are two types of people in this world my friend, those with guns and those that dig……..YOU dig!” CLASSIC!

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  36. “Il Buono, Il Cattivo, Il Bruto” – best soundtrack EVER!
    The opening scene of “Inglourious Bastards” with Christoph Waltz at the farmhouse was absolutely inspired by the sequence with Angel Eyes (Lee van Cleef) at the hacienda. Love it.!

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  37. I gotcha MIT80s. I guess that’s what I was getting at, they’re just looking for attention and not actually serious. Although I am terrified of bees …. I tend to stand still like people say to do, for like 3 seconds, then scream and run as fast as I can :).

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  38. this is one of my favourite clint quotes “it’s a hell of a thing, killing a man. take away all he’s got and all he’s ever gonna have”

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  39. That flick’s got some great quotes:
    “I’ve killed women and children. I’ve killed just about everything that walks or crawled at one time or another. And I’m here to kill you Little Bill…”

    And my personal fave:
    “You just shot an unarmed man”
    “Well he should have armed himself if he was going to decorate his saloon with my friend”

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  40. “when a naked man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher knife and a hard-on, i figure he isn’t out collecting for the red cross”

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  45. Even my kid wasn’t scared of it. Ok, he DID fall out of bed but that was totally unrelated.
    These people need to get off the east coast some time and see some real weather. Shit like that happens all the time on the Prairies and, well, anywhere else. Weekly.

    And this is why I hate my friends now. Because of facebook.

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