My family and I were at the receiving end of a rather unpleasant storm last night whilst camping in Suffolk.
We had seen the flashes of lightning from about 10pm but it must have been miles away as we didn’t hear the thunder. At 1am that changed. The rumbles sounded like a jet going over so we thought if that’s what it’s going to do it’s not too bad... at 1:30am a proper sound of thunder was heard. We’ve been through thunderstorms before whilst camping but at 1:35am a blinding flash followed by a boom that shook the ground. I turned on my torch to see my hairs on my arm rising through static electricity in the air. A rather profuse swear word was uttered, then quite rightly I decided to the abandon tent and find cover. With something that sounded it should have been the main effects from Shakespeare’s The Tempest we endured this barrage for three hours with me trying to calm Bru our dog, my mum looking after my petrified niece, and Dad going around the tents making sure that they weren’t going to be the lightning rod to the storm!
In my 35 years of camping I’ve only ever had to abandon camp twice and the first one was due to a torn canvas in the middle of a rain storm!
The bolt that made me realise that we were too close for comfort truly scared the hell out of me, hadn’t been that scared for a couple of years since a rather scary trip into a rather nasty war zone.
What did the rest you guys have last night, I know being out in the elements makes it more real but did have any phenomenal storms last night?
