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Edengarth

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  1. Hi Matt. Not for my neck of the woods! It must be years since we had a thunder storm over Milford Haven. I'm convinced that there is a sign at St. Anns head stating NO STORMS HERE!!!
  2. The year before last, we had a cracker of a storm, which, for my neck of the woods was unusual. The lunch-time BEEB forecast storms developing over the Bristol area, then moving west along the M4 corridor. Around 1500 I heard the first thunder and I shouted on my next door neighbour as I knew he loved storms. More thunder, then the first lightning appeared. Closer-closer-closer, now down to 2 seconds. A beautiful green flash over the railway bridge just up the road, and we were all systems go. I happened to be looking toward the chapel in front of my house, when to my amazement, there was a large line of very black cloud that seemed to be rolling, just like a wave on the beach, but not going anywhere. I said to my neighbour---'look at that', and as I spoke, there came totally blinding flash of light, and in the same second, a cataclysmic ear shattering bang, followed by a even louder one, and then a second or so after, a wave of hot air hit the two of us. Half blinde, and almost deaf, I turned to Alan to say something, but he was already running for his front door. I made a dash for my porch, and on entering the living room, there was my 'er' indoors', sitting on the settee with her hands over her ears, her mouth wide open , her eyes shut, and a look of horror on her face. Before I could say anything, there came another blinding flas of light, followed almost immediately by 2 bone crunching bangs, and followed up by tremendous bangs and crashes of thunder than went on fot several seconds. Once my eyes had cleared I went to the back door, and watched the storm moving away over the fields and away to the west. Later that evening I was talking to Alan, and we both agreed that, quite possibly we had both had a very lucky escape as that first flash was no more than a few yards away, and that the rolling cloud above us meant that we were on the edge of a vortex, and our lives were probably in a dangerous position. In all my years at sea I had never witnessed anything of that magnitude before, but, as idiotic as I am, I look forward to the next one!! p.s. nice to meet you all.
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