Waiting for Thunder Stroms

[sunstruck]

It's in the air. I can feel it and I want them to start!! I love thunder storms. The more wind the better. There's nothing like a New England autum for wind storms.

So what do you do when the thunder is so loud it shakes your windows? Hide under the covers? Dance naked in the rain? Fuck like bunnies? Frantically try to keep your dogs from scratching through the kitchen door?

 

[lovetoread]

Dance naked in the rain,then fuck like bunnies.

 

[sunstruck]

Dance naked in the rain,then fuck like bunnies.

There ya go! lol I'm thinking my new gazebo is going to be perfect for such activities. lol

 

[Weird Harold]

There ya go! lol I'm thinking my new gazebo is going to be perfect for such activities. lol

Does your new gazebo have a lightening rod?

 

[TWB]

I think Strom is too old to dance, and he probably lost most of his thunder by now.

 

[sunstruck]

Does your new gazebo have a lightening rod?

Umm, no. lol It has a wooden carved crane. His name is Oscot.

 

[Guest]

Since I got home Friday, it's been non-stop thunderstorms. The leaves are falling with the rain. Autumn is coming.

 

[Jewelz]

I find thunderstorms very arousing and erotic. Love to cuddle and make love during them. But if hubby isn't around, nothing better than cuddling with my lil girls and reading to them or watching the storm.

 

[Weird Harold]

Umm, no. lol It has a wooden carved crane. His name is Oscot.

Might be a good idea to make sure there is a lightening rod somewhere lose by before hanging out in a wet, wooden, gazebo during a thunderstorm -- especially a new one that you don't know yet if it's situated where it will attract lightening.

 

[sunstruck]

Might be a good idea to make sure there is a lightening rod somewhere lose by before hanging out in a wet, wooden, gazebo during a thunderstorm -- especially a new one that you don't know yet if it's situated where it will attract lightening.

It's in the middle of the woods. lol Surounding by trees far more likely to be hit. Besides, the lightening wants to go straight into the ground right? It might catch fire, but would we be affected but a hit?

 

[Weird Harold]

It's in the middle of the woods. lol Surrounding by trees far more likely to be hit. Besides, the lightening wants to go straight into the ground right? It might catch fire, but would we be affected but a hit?

If lightening did hit the gazebo, you would definitely be affected.

Lightening takes "the path of least resistance" which, contrary to 'conventional wisdom," doesn't necessarily mean the highest point. If your gazebo has deep foundation -- below the frost line -- it might be a better path to ground that the trees surrounding it.

Being surrounded by trees probably means it's less likely to be hit -- tree roots are usually deeper than foundations -- but lightening is unpredictable and doesn't always take what would seem to be the obvious route to ground.

I really don't mean to spread doom and gloom over visions of a romantic interlude in your new gazebo, but 21 years of weekly safety briefings warped my perceptions -- I tend to see how something can hurt me much easier than when I was young and foolish.

 

[Star of Penumbra]

One thing to remember is that lightnign doesn't come down from the clouds: When it's a ground-to-cloud bolt, lightning travels up. Harold's right: if the gazebo has deep foundations (deeper than the roots of the nearby trees), then it's a lot more likely to get hit, despite being lower.

 

[sunstruck]

It doesn't have deep foundations. It doesn't have a foundation exactly. It's more like staked. Eight beams into the ground, maybe a couple of feet.