Did no one else hear the most astonishing thunder last night?

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

spangles posting:

i was suire there'd already be a thread. We were in herne hill and sometime, maybe between 5-6am we were woken up but the loudest, longest thunderclap i have ever heard in my life.:eek:

really deafeaningly loud and deep and rumbly - but quite prolonged too. Followed by no more thunder but torrential rain.

or maybe Monkeygrinder's and i are having shared hallucinations.:confused:

[foamy]

yup - woke me up in north london too :eek:

[BiddlyBee]

Yes... I got woken up by it too :eek:

Was the loudest thunder I've ever heard, and the lightning was pretty bright too :cool:

Soon went back to sleep though.

[dynamicbaddog]

I did'nt hear the thunder here in New Cross, but I did hear the torrential rain

[editor]

Oh yes. The rain was amazing too - I looked out to see three people with umbrellas struggling down Coldharbour and they had to hold their brollies nearly horizontal!

[Mrs Magpie]

I was already awake because my husband had trodden on me getting out of bed for a pee.....lightning and distantish thunder, next thing the rain starts lashing down like stair-rods, simultaneous lightning & thunder and we're rushing round closing windows as the rain's coming in almost horizontally...

[gaijingirl]

YEs.. it was incredible and matched by equally incredible lightening!

[Blagsta]

yeah, woke me up from my pissed slumber at about 6am

[RushcroftRoader]

I was told that I slept through the worst of it - the noise of the rain puts me to sleep - but did hear some thunder about 5am. The roads were still partially flooded when I drove to work at about 8:40am.
Must have been some storm. :D

[nipsla]

Earplugs mean I don't hear a thing at night nowadays. Couldn't work out why it was so sunny but the ground was so wet this morning. This would certainly explain things :)

[suzee blue cheese]

Woke me up in Nunhead, even though the bedroom's got double-glazing.

[forked brain]

Nothing up here :(

[Iemanja]

It woke us up!!! :eek:

I love thunder but not when it wakes me up like that! :mad:

Saw the lightening too, it was quite impressive!

[Dan U]

safe. i didnt dream it.

:D

[wiskey]

woke me up just before 6 . . . i thought the building was falling down. i looked out onto the hill and it was a river.

i thought i'd dreampt it

[Magneze]

The rain was unbelievable too. Glad I wasn't out in it for sure. :eek:

[Allan]

It woke me up, too. I'm going to write to the council to complain.