What is your craziest weather event memory?

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.

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_ 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

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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.

Hailstorm while hiking on granite slabs.

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.”

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.

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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!

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

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.

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.