PTSD / Trauma from thunderstorms...

unaluna · Aug 09, 2019 at 10:26 PM

Do you have a basement?

Your local power company should have on its website information on what to do if there is a power outage. The same could be used for a bad thunderstorm or tornado warning.

Probably is not the best idea to go outside!

Aug 10, 2019 at 06:43 AM

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Originally Posted by unaluna

Do you have a basement?
Your local power company should have on its website information on what to do if there is a power outage. The same could be used for a bad thunderstorm or tornado warning.
Probably is not the best idea to go outside!

Yes thankfully for the first time in my life I have a basement. My concern was the house getting struck by lighting and a subsequent potential fire. My car is parked feet from my front door so it would have been seconds to the car. As I mentioned this just happened to a neighbor (house struck by lighting) and even though they were all ok their house was so messed up they had to live in a trailer for year.

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my only hope is these storms won't be so bad in the future.

Same here-- thanks, I don't know if it is a larger issue or just where I have moved to. It seems like where I am is the point where the jet stream hits the cold air from the ocean. Winter can be insane as well.

Also very frustrating, my area is not set up for storms. In Michigan they had very good radar and they could pin point issues coming. But these storms... horrible. The future cast had these storms not even coming my way, but they did, and the radar photos seemed inaccurate all night. If it was coming down hard here, the radar didn't seem to reflect that.

xmascarol · Aug 14, 2019 at 05:04 PM

I am so sorry that you had to go through this.As for me I am so afraid of thunderstorms ,every single time it thunders I just about cry that is how scared I am,I never experienced a tornado but I have heard they sound like a train.Trains dont bother me ,but thunder ouch,Even when the entire sky lights up because of lighting I just want to go and crawl in a hole ,unfortunately where I live there is no protection, not in senior housing. I get so scared when the power goes out.I wonder why storms always seem like they are at night.Right when we have trouble seeing. Sometimes I wish I could stay with someone else but no way not around here.I would have been scared with you.I try to think of it as fireworks but unfortunately my brain wont let me think this way.Thunderstorms never bothered me until a couple of years ago I dont know why they just do.

Aug 14, 2019 at 06:14 PM

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Originally Posted by xmascarol

Thunderstorms never bothered me until a couple of years ago I dont know why they just do.

Ok then maybe they are just worse. They really have been bothering me lately. I always thought of thunderstorms where I am as nothing but lately, at least once per year we have really bad ones.

unaluna · Aug 14, 2019 at 06:39 PM

The weatherman said this week that a couple of days ago the detroit area got a 500-year storm, but a couple of years ago, we got a 1,000 year storm. So - i just figure i'll be dead before it all blows up, or the weather / heat / cold will kill me. Im depressed anyway! Im gonna complain?

xmascarol · Aug 17, 2019 at 04:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Emily Fox Seaton

Ok then maybe they are just worse. They really have been bothering me lately. I always thought of thunderstorms where I am as nothing but lately, at least once per year we have really bad ones.

The second I hear that we are in for a thunderstorm I start to develop really bad anxieties and shake as well,I am to afraid to be alone

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unaluna Elder Harridan x-hankster Member Since Jun 2011 Location: Milan/Michigan Posts: 40,017 (SuperPoster!) 12 66.7k hugs given	Aug 09, 2019 at 10:26 PM #1 Do you have a basement? Your local power company should have on its website information on what to do if there is a power outage. The same could be used for a bad thunderstorm or tornado warning. Probably is not the best idea to go outside!
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unaluna Elder Harridan x-hankster Member Since Jun 2011 Location: Milan/Michigan Posts: 40,017 (SuperPoster!) 12 66.7k hugs given	Aug 14, 2019 at 06:39 PM #5 The weatherman said this week that a couple of days ago the detroit area got a 500-year storm, but a couple of years ago, we got a 1,000 year storm. So - i just figure i'll be dead before it all blows up, or the weather / heat / cold will kill me. Im depressed anyway! Im gonna complain?
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