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Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Been up all night with continous thunder and lightning. all local schools are shut and half the flippin roads plus train station. The TLs step dad's street flooded at 2 am so we had to go down but the water was a foot up his door so we could not get in so he just used towels, downstairs hall got wet but his neighbour 4 down got flooded out. The dogs were a shivering wreck. We lost sky at 10.30 and its still off now. I have never seen such continous lightning over such a long period. We had quite a few flash then immediate quarry blast bangs (so very close) that set off car alarms. i am exhuasted


a street not far from the TLs dad

Literally just came on to ask you what the **** that was last night LT. I've not seen lightning like that in my life. Every 2 to 5 seconds for 6 hours. Car alarms going constantly. WHAT the actual ****. We watched it until about 1am, then I kept being woken by it right up until 4am. Luckily the kids slept through it mostly - eldest told me she woke up at about 3 and thought something heavy had fallen down the stairs because the rumbling was so loud.

I actually got myself all worried in the middle of the night, half asleep and convinced it was never going to stop. I've never known lightning like that to go on for more than maybe an hour. But actually I don't think I've ever seen flashes that frequent and constant.