Answer:
I am an English word with 3 consecutive double letters.
The thunder comes before the lightning, which comes before the cloud. The rain dries all the land it touches, wrapping the earth in a blood red shroud. What am I?
I am black, white, and read all over. What am I?
I am one with eight to spare, lest I lose my one. I'm not a number. What am I?
The more you take away from me the bigger I shall get.
The answer I give is yes, but what I mean is no. What was the question?