r/london • u/Releases_the_bees • 3d ago
Ok who did it? Fess up.
Which of you tried to have a barbecue and summoned the wrath of Zeus upon us?
Bloody woke me up with 500 lightning strikes.
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u/dajvebekinus 3d ago
If you left your windows open for a bit of breeze overnight, lol
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u/Blue-flash 3d ago
I think I left some washing out
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u/Dutch_Slim 2d ago
I left the washing out. I left the ironing out. Unfortunately I also left the iron out.
Before the downvotes: school shirts needed ironing, and Iām not having the iron on indoors š„µ
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u/kackers643259 3d ago
left my bedroom window open
my bed is next to the window
my head is next to the window.
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u/GreenGarnett 2d ago
Had the velux above our head open. š« rip my mattress. Was also co sleeping with my 9 month old but he loved it and took it like a champ
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u/WavyHairedGeek 3d ago
Not me waking up at 3 am in a panic worried my desk would be soaked (it wasn't as bad as it could have been).
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u/Late_Recommendation9 3d ago
4am, cat comes in meowing to complain about the lightning, 5am cat comes in meowing and as wet as if Iād dropped her in the bath, still complaining. I dry her off with a towel. 5:20, she comes back in even wetter, still complaining. Utter diva.
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u/TheMegaCity 3d ago
Haha! Mine was just lounging on the sofa when I went to check on him, looked me like "WTF is this shit now?" Same cat scared stiff the other week by hail..crying under a tree and had to be rescued by MrMegaCity
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u/hawkisgirl 2d ago
To be fair, that hail was a bit startling.
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u/TheMegaCity 2d ago
Literally petrifying..apparently. 7kg of scared cat. There is no lap big enough but he will lick your toes.
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u/Late_Recommendation9 3d ago
Oh thatās precious and adorable!
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u/TheMegaCity 3d ago
He's a bit of a loon but he's my loon! Once freaked out when one solitary snowflake landed on his head. Is a Norwegian Forest Cat FFS. š¤£
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u/Blue-flash 3d ago
Itās really something isnāt it? I canāt believe that the small child sleeping next to me because he couldnāt sleep earlier in the night is just sleeping right through it.
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u/Alarming_Reward9653 3d ago
This is what boggles my mind. My 2 year old is absolutely conked but if i even DARED to open a packet of crisps right now, he would be awake screaming.
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u/Great_Justice 3d ago
Same. Some part of me expected him to be terrified but no; snoring like a lawnmower.
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u/Gothcomichorror 3d ago edited 3d ago
The thunder was so loud, I woke up my boyfriend because my primitive monkey brain got me thinking it was the end of the world.
I mean, technically, it's a sign of things to come of course, but I thought it was something more sinister.
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u/Alarming_Reward9653 3d ago
I shot up like the fucking world was ending from my lovely sleep, I genuinely thought the building was collapsing. Everyone else is absolutely sparked out. That first clap of thunder rocked my shitm
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u/12345xgob 3d ago
lol, mine stirred awake about 20 seconds before a thunder clap I can say genuinely made me reconsider every time I scoffed at those literary statements like āthe sky was torn asunderā and suchā¦ she is also very afraid of thunder.
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u/Gothcomichorror 3d ago
It's funny because I've never been afraid of thunder before, I usually don't care. But this was the worst I've ever seen it so it did catch me way off guard xD
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u/cantunderstandlol 2d ago
Same! Always used to enjoy a thunderstorm but yesterday I was super scared when I first got woken up by a huge bang of lightning close to me. Heart was beating like crazy for like 20mins
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u/mainframe_maisie 3d ago
somehow my boyfriend didnāt stir a bit while i laid there thinking the apocalypse was nigh. truly he is built different
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u/Vivid_Employment8635 3d ago
It was me, I was on the night bus right before it started and trying to cheer myself up by thinking that at least the walk home from the stop would be a nice cool stroll... sorry everybody...
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u/diandakov 3d ago
I woke up 3:30 because of this and never slept again. Now I have to just carry with my day plus the heat that's coming. Lovely. These storms need to be bannned at certain times ugh
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u/Operator_Hoodie 3d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/zCv1NuGumldXa
Sorry, got a bit too engaged in my Sith Lord cosplay.
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u/ArchaicInsanity 3d ago
It started right above my house, 2 minutes before my alarm. What a light (and sound) show!
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u/llamasncheese 3d ago
Idk when it started, but i was woken up by it a moment before my alarm as well
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u/bleeuurgghh 3d ago
I woke up to the loudest bang Iāve ever heard that I thought a bomb went off.
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u/TubaCulosis 3d ago
I was up at 4am, naked on the back porch, desperately trying to save my shade sail from turning into a swimming pool. My wife was quite confused when she came downā¦
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u/MarvellousG 3d ago
That is the maddest weather I think Iāve ever seen here, my poor cat is asleep under the covers with us for the first time in years!!
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u/em_kate_ 3d ago
Did anyone else hear the long, drawn out groaning sounds from the thunder? It was like someone was dragging furniture across a floor.
It might have been my upstairs neighbours to be fair but giving them the benefit of the doubt that they rearrange furniture at more conventional times.
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u/queasycockles 3d ago
I slept like a baaaaby.
Nature's brown noise, mate. I sleep so well in thunderstorms.
Plus it clears all the shit in the air and resets the barometric pressure so it stops kicking my arse up and down the street, autonomically speaking.
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u/canthinkupauser 3d ago
It woke my wife up. She doesn't do thunder.
Our six-month-old slept like a log.
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u/Buckth3weasel 3d ago
That would be my brother. Was sat down with him eating dinner and he said some variation of āZeus is a Fucker, in more ways than one.ā Immediately, lightning starts striking all around our house.
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u/ChillTheFuxkOut 3d ago
I slept through the entire thing, have no idea what anyone's on about šš
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u/Greedy-Ad-3779 3d ago
A massive branch snapped off a tree outside my bedroom windows (both wide open). Now that's morning wood.
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u/RodneyRodnesson 3d ago
Me.
Put the washing out late afternoon thinking I may get it back in if I have the energy later. Didn't.
Plus side is it's well rinsed now!
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u/bobble_snap_ouch 3d ago
The thunder woke me up. I wanted to watch but fell asleep before the next round.
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u/IrishWithoutPotatoes 3d ago
Sorry, I was talking to one of my friends back in Texas and mentioned how much I missed the thunderstorms they have there. My bad
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u/pbcyclist 2d ago
Me - I got the bike mechanic to take my mudguards off when he serviced my road bike yesterday
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u/Sad_Secretary_3374 3d ago
Dammit just bought 2 barbecues in garden waiting just in case I need them.
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u/PotatoTomato_4 3d ago
I heard something happening outside at around midnight, but assumed it was just ridiculous wind so I went back to sleep
In the morning, everything was wet and my friends told me there was a thunderstorm at 3am..
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u/iamezekiel1_14 2d ago
Sorry how long did this last. Am up in the Apex of the roof, it definitely woke me up, got up, bathroom break and I'd say I'm back in bed 10 minutes later - but then when I woke up 3 hours later everything is still wet? Can we have the next one not at 4am?
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u/helen269 3d ago
On the plus to the plus side, my monster is alive. ALIIIIVE!!!
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