Kingy said:

Spiny Norman said:

captain_spalding said:

Me and some others i know have a love/hate for it.

Love because it tells a story well, about things that we’ve all thought about or heard about, without frills or gloss.

Hate because it makes you think about how, even in modern times, the weather and the water will kill you in a most disinterested way.

It does remind you just how insignificant you are.
Certainly not as immediately dangerous as rough seas, but I remember flying past a huge cumulonimbus at 39,000’ and we were no more than about 2/3’s the way up it. Biggest storm cell I’ve ever seen.
I was quietly hoping to myself that it would ignore us.

It’s been a big day at work and I haven’t caught up on chat yet, but I can sympathise. I watched a 60m high wall of flame coming our way and despite the amount of fire trucks we had there, I realised just how insignificant we were.

We immediately decamped the other way.

An order for which no-one required clarification, i presume.