I'm one who loves a good old fashioned thunderstorm. A roof raiser, gully washer......what other terms are there?
Here in Arkansas, we call 'em "toad stranglers."
I too love a good thunderstorm. I enjoy sitting on the porch with a cup of good coffee and watching the lightning and falling rain. That is, as long as it's a rather tame thunderstorm, not like when a 500 yard wide rotating funnel cloud passed over my house a couple years back..... When things are looking rough, you can smell "that" smell and feel "that" feeling in the air, and the sky turns a weird shade of green or amber, Thermionic forgets the coffee and goes lookin' for a fraidy hole.