What is your craziest weather event memory?

SuperOrganism2

I have a few, but the most severe was a sudden storm at Myrtle Beach where we ran from the Pavilion (when that existed...like an old, rickedy, amusement park) to a bar that was on the shoreline...raining real hard and some hail.

Saw a Tornado on the water going by...everybody just standing in awe.

Perhaps Hurricaine Fran, though...giant trees in Chapel Hill falling over. One ripped open a water main thingy and water shot 50 ft in the air. Crazy.

anflovely

Let's see, mine was last year in Hawaii (October). A big storm rolled in and my mom and son and I had island hopped to see the WWII museum. It POURED rain, and our flight was temporarily cancelled due to lightning. We finally took off hours later and it was the scariest flight I've ever been on. The announcement was essentially "get your seat belts on and stay sitting, there's no drinks, and hold on tight" lol. Seriously wasn't sure we'd make it. We survived When we got back to Maui, the winds were SO bad, there were flash flood warnings going off all night, and the whole island lost power.

100_PROOF_

One time I fell asleep on the lawn drunk wearing a Batman costume and woke up to the sprinklers raining down on me . Does that count?

Just_Mel_

I live in Oklahoma and weather is a way of life here. We get everything. We can even get thunder sleet, and earthquakes are happening more frequently. Storm season is coming up soon, tornadoes are a regular occurrence. I sleep through severe weather unless the tornado sirens go off. Anyone who's ever been to Oklahoma knows it's windier than Chicago here.

I thinks it's crazy and beautiful. I'm a weather geek.

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100_PROOF_

SuperOrganism2 wrote: »

100_PROOF_ wrote: »

One time I fell asleep on the lawn drunk wearing a Batman costume and woke up to the sprinklers raining down on me . Does that count?

Only if there are pics

I'll ask the landscaper but I'm sure you can find them on pornhub

MichelleWithMoxie

Avocado_AS5 wrote: »

I live in Oklahoma and weather is a way of life here. We get everything. We can even get thunder sleet, and earthquakes are happening more frequently. Storm season is coming up soon, tornadoes are a regular occurrence. I sleep through severe weather unless the tornado sirens go off. Anyone who's ever been to Oklahoma knows it's windier than Chicago here.

I thinks it's crazy and beautiful. I'm a weather geek.

I’m a newbie to north Texas (Plano) and last year was my first time through “storm season” in this part of the country - it TERRIFIES me! I’m a Floridian, so I’m used to crazy weather and hurricane warnings and *kitten*, but tornadoes for some reason scare the ever loving bajesus outta me! I expect to have many sleepless nights coming up filled with anxiety

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michael1976_ca

when i was younger we had so much snow we would go on the roof and jump off it. we were young and dumb

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km8907

Floridian. I can't remember which hurricane it was, but pretty sure it was one of the 4 we had during 2004. During the hurricane, we had a 100+ foot pine tree that's soil was just too saturated after so much rain, so it fell over. Luckily not onto the house, but onto another 100+ foot pine tree. Also luckily it didn't push that tree over. So imagine being stuck in your house during a storm, you can't see outside cause you have shutters up and you just hear this booming crash and you don't know if you're about to be squashed by a giant tree. One of my requirements when buying my house was it couldn't be near a tall tree.

Also downed trees around town. Brother saw the opportunity and took it.

honeybee__12

Oklahoman here, I've seen quite a few tornadoes but one inparticular really scared me.
Middle of the night we woke up to the sound of a jet engine, couldn't hear the sirens. It was so loud.
The tornado cut a path through the neighborhood across the street, took out some trees from our yard and sucked water from our pool.

4legsRbetterthan2

When I was working on a farm in college I was in the stall with a horse when the roof was blown off the barn. It wasnt even a real bad storm, just a really windy day and poorly placed barn. I am still amazed that the horse and I both came out of that unscathed.

beagletracks

Hailstorm while hiking on granite slabs.

AnnieH_4512

Definitely not the craziest, but last night my neighbor’s trampoline was blown over the fence and into my yard.

Finders keepers, right?! ;-)

beagletracks

This earthquake. The scariest part was how long it lasted. Chileans acted like it was nothing.



“Location of the April 2012 M6.7 earthquake (image from USGS)

An earthquake which struck off the coast of Chile near Valparaiso has been reported by the United States Geological Survey as having a magnitude of 6.7 (M6.7). Although an earthquake of this scale would be significant in many parts of the world it is in fact remarkably small for the Pacific coast of South America, where major tremors (greater than M8.0) are by no means unknown.”

Just_Mel_

SuperOrganism2 wrote: »

I have a few, but the most severe was a sudden storm at Myrtle Beach where we ran from the Pavilion (when that existed...like an old, rickedy, amusement park) to a bar that was on the shoreline...raining real hard and some hail.

Saw a Tornado on the water going by...everybody just standing in awe.

Perhaps Hurricaine Fran, though...giant trees in Chapel Hill falling over. One ripped open a water main thingy and water shot 50 ft in the air. Crazy.

That tornado you saw was more than likely a water spout, a non supercell tornado. Although they look crazy and scary, they rarely cause much damage. I'd probably be staring in awe if I saw one too. I bet it looked cool AF.

Just_Mel_

This little baby tornado was a couple miles from my house last year. It was only an EF-0 and did no damage. That was the day I was trying to get a puppy who was stuck in my car wheel free, as the tornado sirens were going off and I was getting hammered by hail. My daughter was trying to get the pup to come out of the wheel when she looked up in the sky and we both saw the twister.

seltzermint555

Definitely the EF-5 tornado in Joplin, Missouri on 5-22-11.

My ex husband and I left our house to go out to dinner with friends, not knowing there was a tornado warning...the restaurant was just a few blocks south of our home. By the time we were seated, sirens went off, lights out & they forced everyone into the restaurant kitchen. It sounded like the world exploded and we were all huddled together, with grown men crying and vents on top of the restaurant crashing.

When it quieted down, we all came out and looked around. Most people were trying to use their cell phones. I went outside with two guys who worked at the restaurant and we determined that the large hospital across the street was badly damaged (MUCH worse than it appeared, though).

My ex and I drove toward home, nervous about what kind of damage we might find, and as soon as we came over a hill, we saw 1/3 of the small city destroyed. It looked like a burned out cornfield, including our house and all surrounding neighborhoods. You couldn't even tell where houses had been...it just all looked like charred rubble. All I cared about was my dog, and she was found later that night, amazingly enough (8 lb senior dachshund!) with relatively minor injuries. She lived a few more years.

Over 150 people died including 3 neighbors on my street and 2 acquaintances. On the way to stay with family in another part of town, I saw people who were badly injured and some of the deceased, too, since there was (fortunately) another, still intact hospital nearby. I feel very glad I wasn't in my home that evening. It was a horrible event.

Keto_Vampire

Blizzard of 96; still remember it despite being very young and for the epic week off from school

caco_ethes

We don’t get dramatic weather here so my most crazy weather memory was in April of 97. Exactly 21 years to the day, in fact.

First it snowed. A blizzard every few weeks all winter. Just shy of 120” total.



Then it melted.





Then fires broke out and ironically couldn’t be put out though surrounded by water.





And the most important part.. like a week of school missed (but without power)

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rheddmobile

I've had a couple close encounters with tornados. The first one happened when I was about thirteen years old, in the distant days before weather apps. My family had recently moved to a country place with acreage and we were in the process of having our stable built - the frame was up, but no walls or roof. I was standing in it with a friend discussing what it would eventually look like when the weather went from clear and sunny to grim - yellow skies except for one solid black line of clouds advancing, horizon to horizon. We decided to head back to the house, which was about three hundred yards away.

We had just about reached the future "door" of the barn when a strange black line dipped down from the thunderhead, like a big black witch's finger. "That cloud looks kind of..." I said, and about then it rushed towards us, unimaginably fast and loud. We didn't try to run because there was no time, we just stood there under the sky in the framework of the open barn and stared. About thirty feet from us, the tornado turned and went up the lane beside the barn, ripping the tops off the giant pine trees lining the lane and leaving them all twisted and splintered. It was just about the width of the lane, and never did quite touch down, just went by at treetop level. In less than five minutes it dissolved, and then the rain started, big, pelting rain.

My friend and I just stood gawping at each other. We didn't summon up the gumption to run for the house for several moments. The feeling of awe and helplessness in the face of something so big and fast isn't one I will ever forget.

My other close encounter was more recent, but still several years ago. The tornado which killed three people in South Memphis before hitting the already decrepit but still open Hickory Ridge Mall finally petered out and died about fifty yards from our house, scattering pieces of mall insulation all over our roof and yard. We drove around the neighborhood afterward and plotted the course from the debris, and it seems to have tracked in a straight line from the mall through some local businesses then across the Nonconnah Creek to the back end of our property.

In more pleasant memories, I have seen Green Flash, while boating with my parents, at sunset. Truly beautiful and I wish everyone could see it. Another good one is seeing twenty-three degree effect, which is a circular rainbow around the sun, with a silvery disk in the middle. I was visiting my sister in California at the time, and the rainbow was on the news, with local people wondering if it was an alien invasion!

AngryViking1970

Probably the Blizzard of '78. I was 7 and we lived pretty rurally at the time. Nobody was getting to us anytime soon so my brother and I dug snow tunnels in the middle of the road.

projectsix

I've never really been in any catastrophic weather but one thing that stands out to me is when I tried to cross the Georgia Straight in a 28' Bayliner Sunbridge weekend cruiser and everything was going fine. Gorgeous day, nothing reported on the weather radio. Then it starts to really swell up kind of out of nowhere, of course the weather station reports NOW about an incoming shift in wind patterns. The swells were absolutely *kitten* insane and it just got worse, and worse, and worse. We got hit with a pretty quick intense storm and I had to slow the boat right down to like 3-5mph almost nothing just to maneuver the boat to prevent us from capsizing ..into the swell which seemingly was going all over the place. It took us a solid hour of struggling through that storm to come out of it alive, but shaken. I thought for sure that's how I was going to go.

*KITTEN* YOU MOTHER NATURE YOU'RE MEAN

RunHardBeStrong

In high school a bunch of us were out boating on the river in a friend's dad's boat. The weather was perfect. 90 some degrees, sunny. Having a blast then out of nowhere the water gets super rough, rain starts pelting us. I look back behind us and start screaming "Go go go!" There was a water tornado coming straight towards us. It stayed right behind us till we could get to a landing and pull off to a dock then we watched it go on by. A few minutes later it was sunny and hot again.

Shortly after high school a bunch of us were going camping for the weekend about 4 hours away. We left after everyone got off work/school so it was dark in a severe storm. We were in a friend's van, packed to the hilt including a keg and pulling a boat. Apparently a light was out on the boat trailer. We got pulled over. Then they decided to search the van. Luckily they didn't find the illegal smokage.. but all stood in the pouring rain on the side of the highway for at least an hour as they tried to search through all of our stuff. The wind was crazy, you could barely stand. Sirens going off all around us. Pitch black and you can only see right in front of you unless a bolt of lightening hits then you can see a bit further for just a few seconds. One huge bolt of lightening hit and we all saw a huge tornado in the field probably about a mile away. We dove in the ditch. Luckily the tornado was going the other way but you couldn't tell in that brief lighting from the lightening. That night was scary and I am still irritated those deputies put us in that kind of danger, they had to of known something was going on out there.

Last year my kids and I were home. A normal summer storm starts rolling through. Soon the sky turns green. Winds pick up, tornado sirens start going off. We head to the basement with flashlights and my phone for updates. Power went out. We heard horrible sounds. Things crashing into our house. The sound of trains going by. (we have no trains that close to us). Then it all stops. We go upstairs and start looking around. Our neighbor had a tree on his house, others have broken windows, porches. Huge tree limbs down everywhere, taking out fences. Power lines down. Trampolines, sheds, basketball hoops are thrown around. Except our house. The only damage we had was one fence panel down and small limbs scattered about. Our house was the only house in the whole neighborhood with virtually no damage. The whole town was without power for 4 days and weeks of clean up.

DreamAmalfi

Avocado_AS5 wrote: »

This little baby tornado was a couple miles from my house last year. It was only an EF-0 and did no damage. That was the day I was trying to get a puppy who was stuck in my car wheel free, as the tornado sirens were going off and I was getting hammered by hail. My daughter was trying to get the pup to come out of the wheel when she looked up in the sky and we both saw the twister.

These things are fascinating.

DreamAmalfi

While living in BC avalanches. Here in Arizona monsoons and flash floods. The haboobs are intense. Huge miles high and wide wall of dust rolls over everything and quickly.

TheRoadDog

I was stationed in Okinawa in 1974. A typhoon passed through. I was from Southern California and had never seen anything like it. We were restricted to the barracks, but I went outside and threw a full trash barrel into the air. It did not come down.

Just_J_Now

I was stuck on the interstate all night during an ice storm. I left work at 3pm didn't get home till 8:30 the next morning. Eventually I had to walk for miles in the ice/snow. I was not dressed for that, I still can't completely feel my feet to this day.