Thunderstorms

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Monsoon is Coming.. (now read it again the same way Jon Snow would say, ‘Winter is Coming‘.) *

Scary, eh?

The arrival and departure of monsoon are the two times of the year that I find the scariest. The rains comes and goes all with it’s musical thunder and the eerie lightning.

To tell you the truth, it’s not the lightning that bothers me. It’s the seconds after the lightning… the long seconds of anticipation and dread of how loud or how long the thunder would last. Sometimes the thunder would even act as a timid friend, staring sheepishly from behind it’s curtains of clouds but making as little gurgling (yes, ew!) noise as possible. And at other times – when we least expect it – it will come out as a sly and cunning enemy and roar as high as it could.

Ah, how I hate the thunder! The enmity goes back a long way down the memory lane. Maybe someday I would talk about it. But not today. Today I want to face it. It’s thundering even now, even as I write this blog post. It’s just a shy, gurgling though, but I’m sure the volume will increase. Monsoons are arriving here in Mumbai (India) and scaring me as always, each year, on it’s onset and while it leaves.

To make myself feel better in such a situation, I try to make up funny stories. I imagine the Gods up there fighting over petty issues like, ‘WHO ATE MY CANDY??!!’, and then getting pissed out about it so just shoving or bumping things here and there, like sometimes when we’re angry we slam the door too loudly or push the chair or table harshly around, the same way. I try to imagine that it’s nothing more than that. Just the shoving of some chairs, no big deal.

But this is so ridiculous and it sounds so funny, even in my head. I know even a third grader won’t be assured by this story.

It’s 3:00 a.m. and I know that I must sleep, but I can’t. I’m thinking about the thunder, the lightning and the monsoons. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t hate them all. I love monsoon when it’s quiet, when it’s quietly raining. It’s a very lovely, romantic season. I kind of like the lightning too. But speaking of thunder, I only have a hate – hate relationship with it.

Well, I’ll try to sleep now, before the thundering gets any worse. Off I go…

Good night! 😀

Do you guys have similar fears about thunder? If yes, how do you face them? Let me know. 🙂

– Suri

* a Game Of Thrones reference

16 thoughts on “Thunderstorms”

    1. Hahaha.. I would like to believe that, I really do. But why does it take so long to shift the furniture, just take a day off and get done with it! why does it have to be days, plural? 😦

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  2. Suri, I share your fear of the thunder. But I am absolutely in LOVE with rain. We lived in England for a period of time and the rain always made me so happy. The wind was horrible in the Lake District where we lived. From November through April the average wind speed is 70 miles per hour.

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    1. Whoa.. the wind is only 10 miles per hour here right now, so I can’t really imagine how 70 mph would be like.

      And yes, the rain makes me happy too. Not the thunder. Never. 😛

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  3. I share your fear for thunder but right now living in Ahmedabad, all I can wish for is the sound of thunder followed by rain. It barely rains here. Enjoy the amazing weather.

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        1. It did rain!!! I visited Ahmedabad this weekend and it DID rain!! And it was apparently the first rain.. It was so beautiful and ‘with’ the thunderstorms. Such a lovely atmosphere after the scorching heat.

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