When you think about it, storms are a crazy thing. If they didn’t happen so often I think it would scare the daylights out of me.

It was raining outside yesterday, and I had to put the umbrella down on the deck. It was so windy, we thought it might pull the umbrella away. I looked up at the sky, and it was horrid looking. The clouds were all over, the tree branches were thrashing side to side and the rain started to pour down. I was watching out the window from inside. The sky had already darkened and the lightning had begun. A huge light cracked across the sky and it was followed by the thunder. It has always amazed me that thunder is part of the lightning. When the lightning strikes you do not hear anything because of course, light travels faster than sound. The thunder then occurs.

So many people are afraid of thunder and lightning and I wouldn’t blame them. The irrational fear of thunder and lighting is also known as astrapophobia.

When you were little your parents told you, “Don’t worry, hon, you’ll never get struck by lightning, theres only a one in a million chance that you could.”

Yes, but what if I am that one in a million? What happens then?