Johannesburg Is Electrifying

I'm sitting here listening to the rain, thunder and lightning outside. My thoughts wonder. It has been raining every afternoon now for the last two or three weeks, ok maybe two only but it feels like three!! Lol. It is also really getting quite infuriating as it generally starts in the late afternoon when my friend, Sharon, and I go for our power walk! The latest thunder storm is an electrical one! With all this rain I wonder how can anyone live in London with that constant rain and dismal weather.  I don't mind the rain but I am petrified of the lightning, but also it must not rain forever and ever. A week of rain is more than enough for me. I wonder what the rain storms are like in London and the rest of the world because over here in Johannesburg they are quite horrific. Like last night - we were having a huge electric storm that when the thunder rumbles you can feel it rumbling through the earth and the window frames rattle. Quite scary actually. Its weird when I compare the rain storms here to the one's on the South coast in Durban (Kwa-Zulu Natal) - I was on holiday there for a week in early January. Over there It just suddenly gets overcast, the sky gets black and next thing with no warning the heavens just open and the rain comes down and its like this silent rain and you see the lightning but you don't really hear it. Very weird, whereas here in Jo'burg you know a rain storm is coming. The clouds gather and the wind starts blowing and then you hear the thunder in the distance and then the lightning starts and when the rain comes it is a hard rain that you can hear because it gushes down. I prefer the sunshine and even though I bitch and moan about the heat, I would much rather have that than cold weather. I guess its because I am an outdoor person. I get quite agitated if I am couped up in a house for too long. It usually helps me take my mind off the storm and keep me busy when I can sit and just write/type random things. Perhaps its time I start a book!! Lol.