What did your father or mother or caretaker say what the source of the noise of thunder was?

The angels are bowling.

Rain was God crying & thunder was the angels bowling.

My mam would say it was God moving his furniture around.

Mom always told us God was bowling.

It was lovely & sunny earlier but is pouring with rain now.
If those thunder storms come over here from dutchland I shall be very, very cross.
Loud bangs from the sky fwighten me!

The gods were bowling.

My mom told me the same as @ucme‘s mom….

I don’t remember being told anything about bowling. Part of the reason is that I grew up in a place that sometimes goes years without any thunderstorms.

Sorry for my boring but true answer. :)

The only lie my Mom ever told me was about Santa. When it came to the weather, she gave me the long, boring scientific explanations

My Grandmother always told me when it was raining at the same time the sun was shining that it meant that the devil was beating his wife

My dad just explained how thunder and lightening works. However, when it rains out of a clear blue sky my dad said it means the devil is beating his wife.

@SEKA, my gosh! Grandma had a dark side.

We didn’t have any such stories. We were told the thunder was the sound of lightning. My dad did tell me if the hair on the back of your neck prickles, there will be a really close one.

My husband and I were standing in the middle of our living room. It was thunderstorming outside. At the same instant we felt this freaky wave of electricity pass right through our bodies! We looked at each other in speechless astonishment…and then it hit, BOOM!!! right across the street.

I was always told thunder is the precursor to the storm, so you count the thunder to the lightning, so you could gauge distance of the storm heading your way. One second, one mile away.

Hmmm… @SEKA‘s Grams & Dutch’s dad had the same story. Wonder IF they’re related???

@LadyMarissa I’m wondering how so many theists raised nontheists haha! I’m in the bible belt and heard nothing about Gods bowling balls or anything. Weird.

“Eckhart! I think the Russians are coming!”.

Too late ^ they are already in the states they have control of their senate.

That was a reference to this cinematic masterpiece

@KNOWITALL I’m in the Bible Belt as well. The biggest Atheist I ever heard of growing up was Madalyn Murray O’Hair. She stopped prayer in the schools. She had 2 sons…one an Atheist & the other a preacher, so parents don’t determine how their kids turn out…they only drive them crazy in the process!!!

@LadyMarissa haha, of course, I was just teasing since so many people’s parents mentioned God and Angels.

My mother told me it was the sound of clouds crashing into each other. My father told me it was a shock wave caused by air expanding faster than the speed of sound.

@LadyMarissa I’m sure it’s a regional thing, in this case, the south.

@SEKA Your Grams from the south?

@LadyMarissa ” Madalyn Murray O’Hair. She stopped prayer in the schools. ” That must have been a hundred years ago. I have never had prayer in any public school I went to, and no one that I know has ever had prayer in public school.

@Dutchess_III It was 57 years ago, she won a case at the Supreme Court

O’Hair died in 1995.

I remember reading about that. That must have been what prompted the Powers that Be to add “One nation, under God,” to the Pledge of Allegiance.

@Dutchess_III No, that was added to the Pledge in 1954, under the belief that no Godless Communist would recite the Pledge with that in it.