Thunderstorms, Why Are You So Angry?

It's not that I have a true fear of thunderstorms. I just don't like them very much. And when I wake up in the middle of the night to a resounding BA-BOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, then I really don't like them. Of course, in the middle of the night, when I'm sitting there on my bed, half asleep, with a ridiculously close thunderstorm raging right outside my window, then I kind of start to think about how much I don't want to be struck by lighting, and begin obsessively counting the seconds between the thunder and the lighting.

I just don't get what's up with them. I mean, can you say attitude? Why can't thunderstorms just be like all of the other rain? Why do they have to get all flashy and loud? What makes them so special? I bet that thunderstorms have a lot of self-confidence issues, and are so loud because they want to make up for all of their shortcomings. But that is no excuse to wake someone up at 3am to bang outside their window.

Apparently, thunderstorms think it sounds fun to exist lately. I do not. Just the other day, when I was saying most of our town lost power? It was because of a stupid storm. We were over at our friend's house, and I was swimming with some other kids, and we got out of the pool and went inside, and, within about 20 seconds, right before my mom and I were about to walk out to our car, these ferocious winds started up that kind of made it look like those videos of hurricanes that you see on the news, but we most definitely were not in a hurricane zone. So we all ran to the basement, and the other girls were all sobbing, and that made me kind of panic, even though our parents said that the winds were already dying down. But then there was rain and thunder and lighting, and we had to drive home in that, and there were all sorts of trees down in the way.

I am telling you, we almost couldn't get home. First, there was a tree down blocking the road that our friend lived in, but there just so happened to be a person who lived right in front of the tree with a circular driveway that allowed us to drive around the tree. So then we got to our road, and there was a tree blocking us from getting down the road to our house. So we turned around and drove the back way to the other end of our road. There was another tree there. So my dad had to come with a chainsaw and cut the tree up so that we could get through. All in the midst of a thunderstorm.

I am telling you, thunderstorms need to go to anger management, and learn how to behave like normal rain. That's all I'm saying.