Naked in the rain.

[Rabid_Clam]

It has been quite hot here lately and today we got some rain showers. I walked outside nude and just let the rain fall all over me. It felt so very good to feel the cool rain hit my body and to walk into puddels splashing.

I have also been outside nude in the end of a hurricane and felt the wind. I stood by a bush where a rabbit was pointing up into the wind head on, we stood there togather, me enjoying the harsh weather and the rabbit trying to avoid danger in spite of my standing only a foot to one side.

This is a great experience but I do not intend to try this in a snow or sleet storm.

[Rabid_Clam]

It has been quite hot here lately and today we got some rain showers. I walked outside nude and just let the rain fall all over me. It felt so very good to feel the cool rain hit my body and to walk into puddels splashing.

I have also been outside nude in the end of a hurricane and felt the wind. I stood by a bush where a rabbit was pointing up into the wind head on, we stood there togather, me enjoying the harsh weather and the rabbit trying to avoid danger in spite of my standing only a foot to one side.

This is a great experience but I do not intend to try this in a snow or sleet storm.

[OldFrog]

One of the most powerful feelings that I have ever had happened while standing outside, nude, during one of our summer thunderstorms here in Central Texas. The cold rain and the raw power of nature resulted in a real high.

The dog thinks that I am nuts but I have been doing that for some 40 years.

[pahjo2]

sort of a funny story but could also be dangerous.
a good friend of mine got out of bed one night, went outside to look at a storm that was brewing.
decided it would be O.K. to urinate while he was outside because it was dark & no one to complain.
about that time a lighting bolt hit some where close. so close in-fact that his hair stood on end. here he was grounded and thought it be best to hi tail it inside. sounds like a good way to invite disaster. stay nude and stay happy--I'm always happier when I'm nude---pahjo

[OldFrog]

Yes, always good to be aware of the potential dangers. At the time that we moved into this house my two kids were in elementary school. My yard has a 6' privacy fence all around and beyond the fence at the back of the property line is a storm runoff easement. The kids liked to go around to the "creek" and catch crawdads.

One day an afternoon storm came up suddenly and I went out to call them to come in. I had no sooner left the patio than there was a blinding flash and an immediate bang that left me feeling that I had been nuked. My exwife (their mother) swears to this day that I cleared the back fence without touching it but I really doubt that. I do know that when I came down on the other side there was no sign of the kids. I scrambled back over the fence and got back to the house to find that they had become alarmed when they saw the storm approaching so had walked around the street and were coming in the front door while I was going out the back.

I guess that you have to be a father to understand why I didn't beat my daughter when she looked at me disapprovingly and told me it wasn't very smart to be outside when there was lightning, especially around water.

[Rabid_Clam]

Yes being out side in a thunderstorm is very dangerous, but I was talking about a simple rain storm.

I was laying in bed one morning when lightening hit a tree about 100 feet from where I was laying. It totally destroyed that tree and for sure got all the sleepyness out of me in an instant.

That was where I am the last service on the power line, I have the last pole on that line on my land. The last pole will have a radiation about it from the power line and if not grounded well it will attract lightening. THat is what happened, I got the power company to re-do the ground to less than 4 ohms and that has cured the problem. I would get several lightening strikes here every summer but the grounding of that pole has stopped it.

[sxmtan]

Hey Rabid, when the rains came down, I thought it would be fun and relaxing to be outside enjoying a shower..But after 5 days and 12 plus inches of rain and sleepless nights of lighting/thunder, CAN SOMEONE TURN IT OFF, PLEASE

[Rabid_Clam]

Was in Charlottesville today and it rained harder than it did in Gaston and I was in that also. Never saw such rain ever before and it was really horrid. Could not drive and could not see even the end of the hood of my car. Was the worst rain I have ever seen and I have been all over the world in monsoons, typhoons, hurricanes, flood disaster and even Gaston where at my house we got 14inches of rain in 3 hours. Thankfuly today's deluge lasted only a about 20 minutes but if it went longer the roads would have washed out for sure.

Am in Mechanicsville. Where are you???

[tomkojohn]

I've been out in thuderstorms free hiking on occasion. It can get really scary if the storm comes up suddenly and is intense. I've been told to stay away from trees as at their base you can get electrocuted.

Once I was hiking a trail, and heard the loudest boom sound I had ever heard while hiking. I looked around and saw a tree smoking that was less than 100 yards away. It was actually on fire from the lightning which had struck the tree and caused it to fall over as well. Luckily the rain soon put out the fire. After this incident I have tried to avoid being outside in thunderstorms. http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/idea3.gif (wish this one's lightbulb would turn on in a thunderstorm.
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[sxmtan]

Drying out and trying to push a mower over 6+ inches of grass while cleaning a wet basement, inside the beltway...No Va.

[Rabid_Clam]

Yea, Was in Charlottesville Va this Tuesday, was the most powerful rain I have ever experienced. It didn't last long at that rate but was so bad I could not see the end of my pick up truck hood. Had to get off the hiway, and there were two other cars that pulled into the parking lot after I did and I never saw them come in !!

Gaston dropped 14 inches of rain here in 3 hours, that was horrid but this rain in Charlottesville beat that for intensity. Just did not last long at all but it still closed over 200 roads here in Virginia for wash outs. As of Friday ( today ) there are still 70 some odd roads closed from that rain.

[1nuderek]

I've enjoyed getting out in the rain nude a couple of times, but living in Phoenix and Las Vegas most of my life, it doesn't rain all that often and many times Ive been at work and had to just daydream about being out in the rain nude.