Autism at 28 - Scared of Thunderstorms

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It's an irrational anxiety. The UK is built for rain but not for snow, so everything comes to a standstill when we just get a flurry, and buses become unreliable.
Also I don't like seeing the ground covered. I like to see the grass. And I dislike walking on icy pavements.

I actually kind of like thunderstorms. They look really cool, especially at night (in fact, there was one just last night where I live).

Hint: Where there's thunder, there's lightning. If there were a crack of thunder loud enough to startle you, it's highly unlikely you wouldn't get at least a second or two of warning with the lightning strike. That being said, I did get my house struck by lightning once before, and the flash and crack came at the exact same time.

I can do without strikes on my house or large sized hail/tornadoes though. Thank goodness the latter two are rare where I live... that being said, there was a severe thunderstorm with hail the size of loonies not a fifteen-minute drive away from my house a couple days ago. In this changing climate, I've learned to expect the unexpected.

You can move to somewhere without a lot of thunderstorms. The west coast of North America is pretty good. We average about 1 - 2 per year. Check this map. http://lightningsafety.com/nlsi_info/li ... tning.html Avoid the tropics.

I'm not afraid of thunderstorms, as I find them really interesting and somewhat fascinating to witness, however the sudden lightning and loud thunder afterwards can startle me greatly if I was not expecting it at first, which still happens but less frequent...