hey!

[elfworks]

lets talk about ... the weather!

what was the biggest/worst/scariest weather event youve been through?


xo

[sheepsnot]

One late spring night in 1999 or 2000. I lived in Memphis and watched as a total of 58 tornadoes crossed the radar in Arkansas and Oklahoma. The sky looked like it did in the Twister movie, which I thought was mostly Hollywood. I was sure that was our last night. http://ams.allenpress.com/amsonline/?request=get-abstract&doi=10.1175%2F1520-0434(2002)017%3C0343:TRDAII%3E2.0.CO%3B2

[elfworks]

closest ive ever been to a tornado was about 50 miles.

that i know of!

xo

[sheepsnot]

Hate to say it, but:
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d145/dandsf480/good-night-300.jpg

[RavenHardt]

I am here....for a bit at least

[caseydbell]

I've been very blessed, I have never gone through anything worse than a thunder storm, thank you Lord :-D

[Holiday]

The "coolest" thing I've ever been through was the Jan. '05 ice storm! The whole town was shut down. No power for 3 days. We live in a small little town & it's always a quiet place, but I've never *heard* anything so peaceful in my life!! It was surreal!! Total silence all around town! The only thing you could hear was the sound of cracking branches. And then 2 days later we had a snowstorm! It did a lot of damage, but what an awesome sight!
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/bucks_fanatic/68a3.jpg

Here is my yahoo photo album from the storm is you want to see more (hopefully it will work):
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/bucks_fanatic/album?.dir=f0cb&.src=ph&store=&prodid=&.done=http%3a//photos.yahoo.com/ph//my_photos

[sheepsnot]

The snow was beautiful! I've been through some ice storms in Memphis before, back in 94 or 95, I believe. Like you said, all you could hear was branches breaking like gun shots.

[elfworks]

oh wow, holiday! those pix are great!!!

xo

[JayIsh]

Driving through Oklahoma at night watching the most incredible lightening show in the sky, listening to the radio and hearing tornado warnings for various counties and not having any idea what county we were in. I had a scratch on the side of that car till the day I traded it in from a large tumbleweed that blew into the road and hit the car...WE WERE SCARED!

Jay

[ReineV]

scariest- we were driving and a tornado touched down on the street parallel to us.

[dvdelf]

we had a huge blizzard one year, 3-4 feet & i had to walk home from work. It was so bad I walked in the middle of the street

[sheepsnot]

Well, the blizzard of 1978 was my best blizzard ever. Famous enough to still be talked about in the geeky weather circles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blizzard_of_1978

[HolyNight7]

Hurricane Charlie! No other storm I've been through compares.

[elfworks]

exactly what is a "geeky weather circle"?
and
is it dangerous?


xo

[Holiday]

How could I forget to mention the blizzard of '78??? Now that was somethin!! :dance:

[sheepsnot]

exactly what is a "geeky weather circle"? and is it dangerous?

You can find them gathered around a radar screen during any major weather "event" giggling like Beavis and Butthead.

[dvdelf]

"huh huh they said tornado warning" "yeah yeah & then they said hail"

[mrshfromjersey]

The geeky weather circle includes my mother - who owns a book about the weather people on the Weather Channel. She has a barometer and a rain gage. GEEKY!

I have some good weather stories. I was camping in Vermont with my parent (in a tent) when a hurricaine came up the coast and affected Vermont. We didn't realize there were holes in the tent until we saw things floating around the tent. We ended up sleeping in the office at the campground. The next day the area was so flooded that we couldn't get out of town.

The other storm I remember was a snowstorm in the late 1980s early 1990s. We received several feet of snow. I was driving home from work in a car with no driver side windshield wiper. Every time I stopped the car to clear the windshield, the skirt of my dress would freeze into a solid sheet. I stopped at a phone booth and my hair FROZE to the metal on the phone booth. A ride that normally took me 30 minutes took 3 hours. I never made it home that night. I ended up staying at a friends house. It was horrible.

[dvdelf]

You forgot the rain today