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  1. There's 2 more I can remember from camping and a caravan holiday:

    We were on a family holiday to Devon in the caravan. The day had started off a scorcher. You could feel the burn on your skin as soon as you stepped out the door and there was a strong heat haze everywhere. Later in the day it went very very humid so much so your face was constantly clammy. As we spent the last few hours on the beach we saw big Cu building up followed by some serious anvils.

    As the BBQ was coming to an end we felt spots of that hot rain coming down and we went inside. About 5 minutes later we all jumped out of our skins as the brightest flash and the biggest bang shook the caravan. Then the heavens opened and it didn't stop raining until about 10am the next day. It got hotter and hotter and hotter until we were sitting inside the caravan with the windows wide open to let out the humidity. The flashes were every second and lots of fork lightening and ground strikes as well as it crawling across the sky. The lightning was all different colours and the thunder was just constantly rolling. The power ent out on the site so we all just sat in darkness drinking tea and wine and beer (not the kids obviously!) and watched it until bedtime. We all fell asleep to the storm which died out for a few hours with flashes and rumbles every now and then and it picked up again around sunrise.

    Another one was during my D of E expedition. We had just put the tent up. It had been a particularly hot or humid day and it didn't 'feel' like a storm was coming. We had finished dinner on the little travel stove. The anvils built up very quickly, literally within minutes. Then a dry storm started and we saw lightning in the distance and heard rumbles. It got close very quickly and all of a sudden a strike hit the tree in the same field as us and scared us all so we all (there was about 100 of us camping in that field) ran as fast as we could to the toilet block and reception which had an alcove we could all hide under. As we rain the rain started to fall and before we reached the block we were all soaked through. All we could do was just stand there shivering and sheltering until the storm passed. It struck the field we were in several times but luckily missed all the tents. It passed over very quick but was very intense.

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