Can you sleep thru thunder and lightening?

[elena88]

OK, here it is guys............
Look in their general direction, slight smile, aviod a blank stare. If you nearly get busted, tell them you were in deep thought about how they may feel inside....haha! john

OMG, you are the sly fox!

[jonquiljo]

Look in their general direction, slight smile, aviod a blank stare. If you nearly get busted, tell them you were in deep thought about how they may feel inside....haha! john

Nope, tried that one too. Got hell the whole day.

I will admit that I can pretty much get away with faking that I am oblivious with my CPAP machine on. She's never worn it so she thinks I am being blown up with air and therefore cannot possibly hear her. Whew!

She's worth it, but sometimes you just need not to have to listen.

[DoriC]

I can tune out my wife but not thunder.

I've tried and tried to tune out my wife and all she does is get really mad at me when I try. What's the key to success?



Pass on this one ladies...



.....ladies!


OK, here it is guys............
Look in their general direction, slight smile, aviod a blank stare. If you nearly get busted, tell them you were in deep thought about how they may feel inside....haha! john

John, I knew you were going to be trouble!!

[Shellie_p]

Sleep through it just fine, unless it shakes the building, but since my other half HAS to have his thunderstorms playing for him to sleep I got used to it.

[Rattleman]

Since I LOVE thunder and lightning storms, I try to get up and watch them. I'd say that being woken by one is a blessing.

[Twentysix]

I sure hope its quiet tonite.

So, how do you sleep during thunder and lightening? Are you used to it? Do your pets hate it?

I looked at this thread, because I thought it would be about safety during a lightning storm. I did not wake up early this morning, but my husband woke me up (god, was I grumpy!) because of the lightning. He thought it may be dangerous being hooked up to a machine when lightning can strike (we lost a dishwasher and a phone a few years ago during a thunder storm). Also seem to remember the Mythbusters proving that you should not take a shower during a thunderstorm because of the danger of getting electrocuted. Guess we can send it in as a myth?
But seriously, is it not dangerous? I would think it is.

[gasp]

I really enjoy watching lightening so try to avoid sleeping through the 'show' : )

[chunkyfrog]

We had visitors from London. They hoped for sunny days here.
Long car trip (Chicago to Lincoln, Ne.)
I brought along the Audubon Society handbook on North American Weather.
Never imagined that clouds and storms could be such a hit!

[timbalionguy]

I've tried and tried to tune out my wife and all she does is get really mad at me when I try. What's the key to success?

Move to central Florida and let the storms tune her out.....

Thundertorms at night? What thunderstorms? If you have any nighttime thunderstorms you don't want, please send them to me. Unfortunately, when it storms here, I am usually under tons of concrete and steel, making sure we don't go off the air. If we are lucky enough to get a heavy thunderstorm while I am at home, usually the phone starts ringing. "Tim, our {server, automation, transmitter, switcher, satellite, network, building power-- choose one or more} is down".

I love storms and don't mind being woken by them. Same with rain, which is also rare out here (although we have had a lot more than usual the las 45 days). We get high winds all the time, some of which shake the house. The little cats ignore all this. The big cats like playing in the wind
That is our Liger Hobbs (rest his big soul!) during a hellacious windstorm in 2002.

Elena88, today we got the storm that hit you. No thunder and lightning, but rain, wind and cold (The mountains take the energy out of most of the weather here-- except the winds!). Its no fun 'slopping the cats' in rain and wind. (Two weeks ago today, we were doing it in horizontal rain!) It has been several years since I had to 'do cats' in really bad weather on a Sunday. And we have had two bouts of bad weather in three weeks. Go figure.

Gotta go. The automation is down

[elena88]

That is our Liger Hobbs (rest his big soul!) during a hellacious windstorm in 2002.

Elena88, today we got the storm that hit you. No thunder and lightning, but rain, wind and cold (The mountains take the energy out of most of the weather here-- except the winds!). Its no fun 'slopping the cats' in rain and wind. (Two weeks ago today, we were doing it in horizontal rain!) It has been several years since I had to 'do cats' in really bad weather on a Sunday. And we have had two bouts of bad weather in three weeks. Go figure.

Im just trying to picture you "slopping cats" in horizonal rain, OMG!

(so sorry for your loss of Liger Hobbs, that is a great pic)

So you finally got our storm.. we have had the weirdest weather in southern cal.. one day hotter than blazes, next day cloudy and cold, next day
perfect, next day thunderstorm.. dont know weather to pull the heaters or fans out!


Big cats are such amazing creatures.. .. I remember fondly being sprayed by a lion at a reserve outside L.A. I was quite popular with the rest of
the cats that day! I had no idea they could nail you from twenty paces! dead on.... facing backwards too! Bet you have had some "wee"
adventures!

[gasp]

The big cats like playing in the wind
That is our Liger Hobbs (rest his big soul!) during a hellacious windstorm in 2002.

This begs the question, do they like basking in the wind of an oversized fan? Is it the wind, increasing ozone, . . . ?