severe thunderstorm in a kilt

[pbpersson]

Okay....you guys can call me strange if you want....but since I'm a new kilt wearer I have this mental list of things I'd like to experience in a kilt. Last night I did "real shopping" for the first time which I covered in another post. However, later in the evening I did the severe thunderstorm and now I can cross that off my list.

There have been other evenings when I have gone out for a walk thinking we might have a severe thunderstorm and nothing happened. Last night I went out for a walk and took my umbrella and OH MY GOSH did we have a storm!

It hit when I was walking through an office complex at about 10:00 at night and for a while I was trying to walk INTO the wind with my umbrella but since the rain was coming right into my face I was holding the umbrella in front of me so I couldn't see where I was going.

Well, I sought shelter under a covered section of the parking lot - we have a lot of those here in the desert - and that kept me dry but of course I wasn't sheltered from the wind. Then the storm REALLY got bad. I have never seen such rain or wind. At one point the wind nearly knocked me over and I weigh 230 pounds.

In case you were wondering, I was wearing a tan UK mocker and it was drenched at this point so it wasn't going anywhere.

Anyway, I can cross "severe thunderstorm" off my list - I don't ever want to do that again!

[Kilted KT]

I've been in quite a few torrential rainstorms, thunderstorms, monsoons, or whatever you want to call them, while kilted. I'd have to say that I understand why the scots kept the kilt. My 16oz kilts worked better at keeping me warm and comfortable in a cold rainstorm than any rainsuit I've ever worn. If I'm lucky enough, I'll never have to put another poncho or raincoat on again!

[Chris Webb]

I like your list idea, pbpersson. We get some wild weather here in Tornado Alley, but I've never seen electrical storms like I saw in Arizona.

A kilt is a rather miraculous garment as far as it's all weather usefulness. A little longer and it's amazingly warm even when wet, a little shorter and it's amazingly cooler than shorts on the hottest of days.

As for my own list of all that I want to do in a kilt I'm not sure I have anything left on it. I'm kilted full time and have been for a good while, long enough for kilting to have become so routine that I actually miss the feeling I used to have with the "first times."

One thing is for certain, almost everything is better in a kilt. Try your best to hold on to that "kilt innocence" ... before long you could be so deep into the kilting movement that the fun of kilting could be deminished by the conflicts between its' various perspectives.

Whether worn with all its' accoutraments or whether worn with nothing but a pair of flip flops I hope that you will, rain of shine, work or play ....

Kilt On.

Chris Webb

[mudd]

SO... what else is on your list? If you don't mind.

[RCallan]

That will blow the wind up your kilt!

[pbpersson]

SO... what else is on your list? If you don't mind.

Well....going shopping for REAL last night was a new experience

I am really looking forward to walking at night here on a breezy WINTER night.

As for other experiences I guess I will add them to my list as I think of them.

Next weekend I will be spending SIXTEEN HOURS behind the wheel of a car driving and while there is no way that can be fun I think it will be more comfortable in a kilt, unlike what some people here seem to think.

[Jimmy the Celt]

Next weekend I will be spending SIXTEEN HOURS behind the wheel of a car driving and while there is no way that can be fun I think it will be more comfortable in a kilt, unlike what some people here seem to think.

It's a bit harder getting into a car, but pretty comfortable, I think. But with the AmeriKilt, it wrinkles really bad if you don't get the pleats as straight as possible. And it will still get wrinkled even then (a downside of 100% cotton kilts).

James

[pbpersson]

That will blow the wind up your kilt!

When did this happen?

Was this something you did on purpose?

How did that work out for you?

[Blu (Ontario)]

... I am really looking forward to walking at night here on a breezy WINTER night...

How about heading north to Montana, North Dakota, or Minnesota to take that breezy winter walk!

[Southern Breeze]

There's nothing like standing at attention when the windchill is around 20 degrees. That's when you seperate the kilted men from the boy's. After that mere thunderstorms pale in comparison.