ThisTroper has had a dog that completely freaks out during thunderstorms, demands to be let inside and hides under the table.

This troper has two cats - one of which is fine with thunderstorms as long as she's indoors and dry, but the other becomes almost paralyzed with fear and usually hides under the nearest piece of furniture, shaking violently, if anything so much as sounds similar. She's a rescue cat, so we theorize something awful happened to her as a kitten to bring this on.

This troper has a rescue cat who was originally found in a storm has no problem with thunder. The dog who has been pampered and spoiled literally his whole life has extreme freak outs and needs to be right underneath the nearest person.

This troper's rescue dog has panic attacks in response to any loud ''bang''. Thunder, fireworks, balloons being popped... We're pretty sure this is due to some past trauma, but as his previous owner lied to the rescue shelter we'll never know exactly what.

This Troper has these problems with her dog.

This troper's rescue dog hated thunderstorms, but hated the idea of seeing his family in danger even more. Cut to one cloudy afternoon, where instead of cowering on the porch as per usual upon hearing a storm approaching, he ''herded us inside.'' This included planting himself in front of my mostly-deaf grandmother, who was mowing the backyard and couldn't hear the thunder over the lawnmower, and refusing to let her continue until she realized something was wrong. I miss that dog.

This troper's grandma's dog is afraid of ''wind''.

This troper's cat used to be fine with thunder, but developed a fear of it for some reason. She crawls around almost flat on her belly and hides in the basement mewing.

This troper knew a dog that ''gnawed through a metal cage'' to get inside because she was so terrified of thunder. If she was inside, the thunder would make her go insane and want to get ''out''. The only way her owners could get her to calm down during a storm was to freaking sedate her.

The reason why dogs are freaked out by Thunder is because the dogs sense of hearing is much higher than a humans. Thus if they hear something that is loud to a human then it is MUCH louder to a dog, ergo. they want to hide away to somewhere quiet, unfortunately this means that since the thunder is so loud they can't escape it, so they freak out.

This troper had a dog that was afraid of lightning and thunder because, when she belonged to my step-grandpa, lightning had set their house on fire.

This troper has a friend that has this phobia. She has her reasons though.

Subversion:For whatever reason I woke up in my parents bed next to my brother (get your mind out of the gutter). I was woken up by the thunder, and but surprised to see my brother, but he thought I was woken up and frightend by the thunder.

This troper is scared spitless by thunderstorms. The lightnig is awesome, but the thunder is so loud and painful on her ears that she's come to cringe at the mere mention of tunderstorms. Even as a teenager, she was brought to tears at the roar of thunder.

I'm pretty sure I got my phobia at age 10 when my friend was showing how to get from my house to hers... and she took off at the first boom, almost too fast for me to follow. Of course, this happened in an area I wasn't familiar with.

This troper tried to condition a gf out of fear of thunderstorms, but she was terrorized of them, trembling the entire time, whimpering and startling at every flash or thunderclap. And it made no sense; she grew up in a major city with tall buildings and taller lightning rods to guarantee protection. I grew up in open desert plains and I've always gotten a thrill out of thunderstorms since I was a toddler. But I didn't make much progress with her phobia, the best I could do was keep her intermittently distracted until the storms passed.

This troper has been struck by lightning. Twice. First time hurt like a bitch, but the second was kinda fun.

You are made of freakin win.

This troper, as a young kid, used to be absolutely terrified of thunderstorms. Growing up and experiencing a few big ones while coming through completely unharmed has conditioned him to the point where he looks forward to them.

My fourteen year old sister, who is otherwise mostly reasonable, is deathly afraid of thunder. I keep telling her to grow up, but she still freaks out. She ''has'' gotten better lately, though.

Subverted in this case, this troper LOVES lightning and thunder, and literally {{facepalm}}s at the fact that her sister is fine with lightning, but terrified of thunder. Really? One you can hear, the other makes you the main dish at a barbecue. Still don't get it.

This troper is scared of lightning but not thunder. This stems from the fact that someone told her a story, when she was like 9, about people being burnt to a crisp by lightning. Thunder is more of a relieve, since it means that yet another one missed her.

This troper only has this fear during the night, alone, in the dark it make it acary, last night (when this edit was made) There was a storm at around 12:00 PM but the sky glowed orange a bit (From the City lights) It wasnt to scary

This troper ''hates'' thunder. One time in class, a storm started and I leapt three feet in the air and landed on the desk.

TruthInTelevision for this twenty-year-old troper, IN SPADES. It probably started when, a few years ago, lightning hit his house (twice or thrice) ''in the same year.'' One of those times, it was even on a clear day--sunny and everything, if he recalls correctly.

This troper is terrified of storms while in a vehicle or at home, but absolutely fascinated and thrilled by them when she's anywhere else. This might have something to do with the fact that she was struck by lightning when she was in first grade, while standing at the end of the long driveway of her house, and sitting in a car and then a bus immediately afterward.

I'm only worried for my poor computer's sake. Otherwise, it's a nice light show.

This troper used to fear thunder in his younger years. Now he only gets scared by it if it's due to a lightning strike that's really up close (like when strikes right at the house's window).

This troper is, after a stint of 2 to 4 years without a good thunder storm, afraid of lightning. He'll probably get over it just in time for his new fear of catwalks to kick in.

This troper is afraid of thunderstorms. Not as much in the day time, but they're scarier at night. Luckily, I live in an area of Southern California that rarely gets thunderstorms.

This troper is deathly terrified of thunder. Ironic given as I don't mind lightning at all and actually think it's rather pretty. It's to the point where I'll even try to run out of a classroom during class. IN COLLEGE.

This Troper didn't think much of it, but whenever a loud clap of thunder catches her by surprise she ducks and cries. It evolved to full on phobia of thunder AND lightning when a large storm hit, the power went out, and she was left all alone with no matches for candles. Twas a dark and scary night...

This troper, for absolutely no reason ''at all.''

This troper has been terrified of thunder and storms in general ever since she was little. This troper happens to live in north-central Texas. When I was a kid, one day we were put under a tornado warning while I was still in school, so they had everyone huddle up in the hallway. My mother came to pick me up from school early, and as we were walking back to the car... well, we still have debates on what exactly happened: she claims that we took shelter under a tree when lightning struck it, while I remember as it hitting a tree across the street from where we were parked. I think the whole thing kind of traumatized me, because I still get really jumpy and antsy during thunderstorms... to say nothing of what happens when the tornado sirens go off. ''That'' puts me in full-on panic attack mode. Eesh. My cat's the same way too, she runs and hides at even the tiniest rumbles of thunder.