Are you suggesting England doesn’t have thunderstorms?
A better question might be “What did the Yankees at Shiloh think of chiggers?”.
I think they had thunderstorms in England and Holland...
What did the French Arcadians think of Louisiana alligators, and enough heat and humidity to kill a Northern European and thousands of square miles of fetid swamps???
They adapted.
Very very frightening me....
To Europeans here on FR: Are there thunderstorms, lightning and rain in europe? thx
They probably seen it a couple of times over the years but not to the extent that it happens in New England etc. Totally different weather in England then New England.
As a thunderstorm approached, they would have said, “looks like we’re in for some thundery weather” if they spoke like 21st-century Englishmen.
“What did the Pilgrims think of thunder and lightning?”
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They were terrified - and the water falling from the sky made them think it was surely the end of the world. They used to run and hid in the caves during a storm, only to come out a month later when they were sure everything was okay. It was a living hell for them. It’s amazing they survived the shock.
I wonder what the first European who saw an EF5 tornado thought.
Plus, what did tornadoes sound like before there were trains.
This doesn’t apply to thunder and lightning, but Charles Dickens writes at length of the sufferings of two naive Englanders who bought a plot of land near the Mississippi in a settlement called Eden. This was in “Martin Chuzzlewit”, which is in my opinion the most underrated of Dickens’ works.
Probably a little bit frightning....
“Thunder buddies for life right Johnny?!”
The Pilgrims thought, “We need to find some native Indians to help us survive this severe storm.”
Damneth...tis going to rain
Thunderstorms and lightening are worldwide. See the Bible for reference. Tornadoes and hurricanes of the magnitude they are in the USA may have been shocking.
Bringest thou my 300 cubit measuring tape and findest some gopher wood.
I don’t know but it’s been said that German lightning turned a law school student into a monk.
Bump
Raising kids in California, I looked forward to taking them east to experience thunder and lightning, mosquitos and lightening bugs. My middle daughter swears the mosquitos left permanent scars.