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The Worst Storm/Weather Situation You've Been In
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posted07/16/2004 04:31 AM (UTC)by
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malebolgia
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I am a huge weather buff. I love to watch thunder storms when they roll into my area. I watch the weather around the world, and keep an eye on hurricanes, typhoons, tropical storms, etc. I have lived in Nebraska for almost 6 years now. We are located in the 'Tornado Belt' of the USA. However, I have yet to see one. What is the worst storm/weather you have been caught in, and what happened? I would love to hear your severe weather stories. My worst would have to have been hurricane Bob which tore through New England (I am originally from Massachusetts) back in the summer of '91. We were without power for almost a week, and couldn't get out of our driveway for 4 days. We had so many trees down, and we had to chainsaw our way out through the downed trees. Our neighbors 24 foot boat ended up on our front lawn. The water in front of our house rose about 15 feet above normal!! The highest wind speed was 125 mph recorded in the town next to us. The most awesome thing was the 'eye' of the hurricane passing overhead. No wind, no rain, and blue skies for almost an hour. Then the backside of the hurricane hit us for another 12 hours. A totally unbelievable experience. Please share your most scary weather experiences. I would love to read them. Thanks. smile
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 •07/15/2004 08:06 PM (UTC) •
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Hurricane Isabel last September. I live in Virginia beach, and we got hit pretty hard. Lost power for a week and a half.
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Raining_Smoke
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 •07/15/2004 08:09 PM (UTC) •
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Well I was asleep during Hurricane Hugo when I was a baby but technically I was alive I just never remember it, lol. We've always had bad thunderstorms down here every summer that knock power out those are always scary. And this past winter we had an ice storm that knocked power out for a couple of days, that sucked.
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Hyuga
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 •07/15/2004 08:13 PM (UTC) •
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I live in South Florida, so hurricanes don't really bother me since I'm inside during them anyway. A few months ago, though, I was at my friends house swimming when there was about 30 foot visibility from the rain/hail. It was great.
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 •07/15/2004 08:17 PM (UTC) •
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I was moving down to Dallas from the Midwest the Monday before Thanksgiving in '99 and the south hadn't had rain in like 3 months. It was a rainy mess. I had just crossed into Texas from Oklahomo I mean Oklahoma and the rain was just pounding my car. We, myself and the Lincoln car about 15 feet ahead of me, were creeping down the road at a snails pace when it disapeared behing the rain. The wind really picked up. I was getting SCURRED!! I pulled overbut wasn't able to make it to the overpass I had seen the Lincoln get to. I'm beebopping away to N'Sync (gay gay gaygaygay) and singing Justing part cause I can. and my car started to move. My card Started TO MOVE. It was in park people!!!!!! I felt the butt end of the card bounce. Then in a clockwise rotation my car decided to face the field next to the Highway. Then the rain stopped. I was shaking like a leaf. When I get to Dallas they were all like "OH yeah there were like 4 tornado's that way."

I hate road trips.
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 •07/15/2004 08:18 PM (UTC) •
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About 7 years ago. Me and my family came home from the mall. It was raining pretty heavy on the drive home but I didn't think anything of it. We got home and got out of the car and we're all on the porch ready to go in. Then all of a sudden this HUGE ASS Surge of wind flew by us and we saw across the street maybe 40 feet away this fucking Whirlwind knock down a tree onto a car. We saw a tree getting torn out from its roots and fly in the air about 4 feet then crash down. We quickly went in and waited for it to pass. When it got calm, we went out and there was trees, leaves, broken pieces of peoples houses all in the street ALL OVER my town. The reason I call it a large surge of wind is because it wasn't a Tornado. It's called something else. I saw my neighbors on the news and the weather dude said the name of it but I forgot. Anyways. It was the closet and most awesome force of Nature I've ever seen.
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•07/15/2004 08:29 PM (UTC) •
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It happened this past January: I live in Eastern Maryland and work clear on the other side of the state. Usually I take the Capitol Beltway to I-95 North to get home. But this one night there was a blizzard and it caused a big wreck on I-270 South (I use that to get to the Beltway). So my alternative was to take 270 north to I-70 and then head east.

I-70 was shit. Not a single inch of snow had been plowed. There were snowdrifts 2-3 feet high between the lanes. Immobilized cars were littered everywhere. I spun out and landed in the median - thank God I was able to get out of there. I managed to zigzag my way up to Mt. Airy - a little resort town about an hour east of Baltimore. I couldn't take any more of 70 so I began looking for a hotel. There was only one and there was no vacancy. I thought I'd have to spend the night in my car. But fortunately the time I spent in Mt. Airy gave the trucks enough time to plow 70 and I made it home in time for Chapelle's Show grin. But that's something I don't wanna live through again.
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 •07/15/2004 08:34 PM (UTC) •
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Hurricane Isabel, hands down. I live in Northeast North Carolina, on the northern part of the little nub that sticks out of the east coast. Every year or two we get hit by a hurricane, but normally the cool water of the Albemarle sound protects us, and the storms come more from the south, so they hit the Outer Banks first. Isabel, which was a nasty storm to begin with, hit our area dead on...t'was unpleasant.
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 •07/15/2004 08:48 PM (UTC) •
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Awesome stories guys!!! Thank you. Keep 'em coming people!! Thought I'd post these two pics I took with my wife's digital camera. Basically a storm approaching from the west, but I thought the clouds parting the suns rays was just spectacular. Hope you enjoy 'em.


And a close up...

You may notice the two little white specks on the left side of the first pic, and the one white speck on the left side of pic 2. Those are not blemishes...those are airliners coming and going from Denver Intl Airport!!!
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 •07/15/2004 10:04 PM (UTC) •
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Does nearly being struck by lighting on three different occasions count?

Once I went I was about 10, the light pole outside my bedroom window was struck during a storm while I was asleep. I woke up feeling like I stuck my hand into a light socket.

Another time I was driving home from work during a major thunderstorm. The lighting struck the ground just off the road, in front and to side of my car. I actually saw the embers come off the ground.

The third time I was outside watching some storm clouds approach and the TV pole I was standing close to (like the idiot that I am) got it. I didn't get hit or even touched by it, but I saw spots for a few minutes. Luckily it was not my TV pole but the neighbors so my TV was unharmed as well.
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 •07/15/2004 11:16 PM (UTC) •
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It happened 2 nights ago.

I was sleeping safe and sound when the thunder woke me up. my dogs were going insane and shit. But anyway I try to get back to sleep but then it starts to rain and like 5 seconds in its already hailing like crazy. It knocked a hole through my window (downstairs, not in my room) about 3 inches wide. Then the lightning/thunder starts up again, and one bolt hits a power line right next to my house. Holy Hell it was loud. It sounds like moloch is taking a dump except from heaven and it fell on my house. But anyhow it knocked out the streetlights then I fell asleep again.
Well I just "happened" to have my funky camera thing on (you know those hip ones that take pictures when it senses sound through the microphone thingy, my cousin worked at the shop I got one for $10 he was very nice to me) uh sorry off topic but on topic it took a pic of the lightning I was all freaked out... In the end I had like 47 pics but this was the closest I also had one of a destroyed corvet but I deleted it.... Well sorry but here's the pic:
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Hyukan
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 •07/15/2004 11:26 PM (UTC) •
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Sry couldnt get it 2 work b4

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 •07/15/2004 11:54 PM (UTC) •
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I live in freakin' Arizona. The worst we get is like, a freakin' monsoon or a thunderstorm here and there. Lol. Other than that it's HOT and dry.
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 •07/16/2004 04:23 AM (UTC) •
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There was this one time a while ago when me and my Greek buddies were sieging the city of Troy, and the god Apollo started shooting lighting bolts down at us because he was pissed that I chopped the head off his statue and he barely missed me and I had to pull my girlfriend Briseis, a priestess of Apollo's from Troy, in the way to keep him from striking me down with lightning. It was creepy.
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 •07/16/2004 04:31 AM (UTC) •
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i live in NY and a few years back there was this "labor day storm" it was a huge thunderstorm biggest in central new york took out over tens of thousands of trees, wires, houses it happend around 12:00AM lasted the whole night the next morning it looked like we were hit with a tornado
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