My husband's mother used to tell him that when it was thundering that was just God moving furniture around his house.
A childhood belief about thunder and lightning

others believed things like this
- I used to believe when it thundered that god was moving his furniture around.— Debra Mcewan
- When I was a kid, I used to believe that it would thunder when G-D was moving furniture in the sky.Anon
- I used to believe that when it thundered it was God moving the furniture around up in heaven!— Clare N.I.
- I remember being told that thunder was just God moving his/her furniture around.— kipperfeet
- As a child E believed when it thundered that it was god noisily moving his furniture about. — Deb
- I used to believe that when you moved house you swapped house with the person moving into your old house.Anon