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not so fair weather / Jokes, Polls & Anything Else / 10:45 PM - Saturday May 10, 2008
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A Thinker (Female, 36-45) asked:


What is the worst weather phenomena you have experienced? t-storms, hail, tornado, hurricane, etc? How was it?

Update: May 11, 2008.
like strongbow said, handing out stars for all that you have experienced is absurb; my heart goes out to all of you.

Update: May 11, 2008.
I wish I had enough stars for all of you!


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A Creative (Male, Tampa, 26-28, Other Profession) answered:

Screenname: strongbow


I do not know how you can hand out stars on a question like this but here you go. Its a toss up for me, few years back we had a local crazy run through Port charlotte in fl, he placed 7 fires so our local fire dept could not reach all of them in time. The area where I lived was on of the placed where they could not reach in time. lost most of the homes,trees and every thing that could be burned. Hell, even i was burned. Then we moved and Hurricane Charlie came. Alot of people thought charlie was nothing but alot of the researches down on the cane will tell you it was a cat 5. The only reason the news calimed it was a Cat 4 was due to the fact they lost contact with the storm few miles off the coast. I lost my home due to the hurricane. you hear people talk about katrina or bob or andrew. Yes what has happend with those hurricanes were bad, but not one talks about charlie.

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A Married Girl (Female, 36-45, Teaching) answered:

Screenname: tweets4u2


Hurricane. It was so bad. My heart just about broke seeing all that was lost by others.

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A Guy Critical (Male, Milwaukee, 66 or older, Retired) answered:

Screenname: rekkonball


Hands down, a tornado. I was in the driveway closing up the tent trailer in high wind when the neighbors garage blew out and collapsed sending splinters and wreckage up into the sky. Mean time my tent trailer kept trying to float off the ground and without thinking beyond getting it secured, I kept reaching up and bringing it back down!~ My spouse standing in the doorway to the house was screaming her lungs out something like "get in here you fool, it's a tornado!!"

I like storms. They make me feel ALIVE!

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A Career Woman (Female, 46-55, Medical / Dental) answered:

Screenname: kypevans


A Tornado went through my yard several years ago, the ice storm of 2003 - 1 week with no power, a tropical storm when I was 23 and lived in Miami - it was just fun - had a tropical storm party. Of course everything was a party back then. LOL

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A Mr. Nice Guy (Male, New Orleans, Who Cares?, Science / Engineering) answered:

Screenname: hwyrider


Eye of Katrina come over me during the storm...it had it all.

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A Thinker (Female, 46-55) answered:

Screenname: ldykarla


Heat of 136 degrees. Can not handle the hot... I was also once snowed in for two weeks with no utilities including heat. That sucked.

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A Rebel (Male, New Orleans, 56-65, Transportation) answered:

Screenname: hotair


Katrina, Betsy, camile and a couple other hurricanes, one tornado years ago and a number of hail storms....Katrina was the worst, but most of that was man made error

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A Creative (Female, Atlanta, 36-45, Medical / Dental) answered:

Screenname: purplebreeze


I would have to say hurricanes. The worst one was probably when I was living on Okinawa, and although it was pretty scary, the houses were concrete and the doors steel, the windows had hurricane bars over them, so it wasn't too bad. Not much you can do but wait it out. Also when the remnants of a hurricane hit when we lived in Georgia, and even though we were far from the coast, it was pretty bad. Knocked several limbs off trees and a part of our fence fell over. We survived!

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A Career Woman (Female, 36-45, Self-Employed) answered:

Screenname: blackkat


Been through more than 30 years of Florida hurricanes, never anything bad, live near the Space Center and those rocket scientists knew what they were doing when they built the launch pad (Gulf Stream just offshore bounces them out to sea). Skimmed the edges off Hurricane Gama in a cruise ship, waves crashing over the balcony of deck 12. Worst was a summer storm when I was a kid, we were sailing and there were water spouts all around us. Mom shoved my sister and I into the crawl space in the bow to ride it out, been claustrophobic ever since.

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A Thinker (Female, Baltimore, 46-55, Administrative) answered:

Screenname: jpm51


I've only experience a few bad hailstorms, driving down the highway and having to pull over on the side because it was very large hail pounding against the windshield and the car and very scary and dangerous.

Many years ago when I was married, I was riding in the car with my husband driving and lightning hit the antenna on the car which was at the front by me and the noise and light and sizzle scared me stiff, I could not move or speak for a very long few seconds, so I won't forget about that experience.

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A Thinker (Female, Charlotte, 29-35, Home Maker) answered:

Screenname: uncgal


That year we had Bertha and then a few weeks later Fran hit us. Thank goodness Bertha was only a baby hurricane that took most of the weaker trees down and prepared some of those around here that were new to hurricanes and what they could do! Fran came along I lost my roof and I had no lights or water for over a month.But you get use to it if you have lived here your whole life you rebuild and go on until the next big one.You don't mess with mother nature,when you see someone who has lived their whole lives packing up and moving inland you need to be doing the same thing,one stupid couple thought they could ride out the storm on the island they were so lucky to have been found holding onto a tree for over 24 hrs until help could get to them!Soon it will be time to start watching the the waves off Africa again and be prepared in case they turn into the next big hurricane of the season!

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A Career Woman (Female, 36-45, Managerial) answered:

Screenname: jennylf


I know tons of people have already answered this but here goes:
I lived through the Xenia, OH F5 tornado in 1970, and then the Northridge earthquake in 1994. Which was worst? It's really a toss-up on that one. Both were equally as destructive per what I witnessed.

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A Life of the Party (Female, 22-25, Executive) answered:

Screenname: ilovehonus


It was an Earthquake of October 2006 right off of the Big Island of Hawaii.

It was a 7 on the richter scale.

It was scary as hell! Everything falling off the walls and I was in bed wondering if someone was playing a joke on me and shaking my bed!

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A Sweet Sarah (Female, 18-21, Retail) answered:

Screenname: timewilltell08


I lived in south florida in 2004. I had those two hurricanes weeks apart. That was not fun. I was out of school for a month, when back the day after my birthday and I always joke that I got power for my 15th birthday. It was hot, sticky, boring, and really scary because we didnt have the time or money to board up our house. But luckily we were okay.

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A Sweet Sarah (Female, Minneapolis, 18-21, Student) answered:

Screenname: italianbella87


Let's see...lots and lots of blizzards- ice storms, getting snowed in and such, -40 degree days, -60 degree windchills, a tornado in my back yard...I live in MN..we get everything!

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A Thinker (Female, Providence, Who Cares?, Other Profession) answered:

Screenname: ladywisteria


Tornado!

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A Creative (Female, New York, 18-21, Student) answered:

Screenname: sweetness04


Um... thunderstorms.... AAAHHHH the joys of New York :D


Sorry for everyone elses loses though :(

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A Cool Mom (Female, St.Louis, 29-35, Retail) answered:

Screenname: elizabethmom05


Two years ago, we had back ro back ice storms, and we had no power for almost three day's. My daughter was only 17 months old and our apartment got down to 7 degrees.

We went to stay at my husbands Grandparents house because they had power, when we got there, their power went out, too. We were miserable and very cold.

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A Mr. Nice Guy (Male, New York, 36-45, Managerial) answered:

Screenname: tnix123


Well since I have never experienced a tornado or earthquake I guess the worst was a hurricane and even that wasn't that bad. We lost power and were without power for a few days but a few local gyms allowed people to use there showers so it was just never that bad. It was a little boring at night so we just slept alot.

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A Thinker (Female, London, 26-28, Other Profession) answered:


A lightning storm of Biblical proportions....there was also the usual rain, severe winds and hail---and I saw a tornado starting to form off to my right about a mile away! I was driving on the Interstate at the time...I pulled off the highway and prayed for that funnel to go back up into the sky.

It did---but the lightning. I had hours of driving yet to do and it was terrifying. It was constant---striking the ground all around me on either side for miles and miles. I remember that some of the lightning was orange too, not white.

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A Thinker (Female, Cleveland, 29-35, Student) answered:

Screenname: seductivepisces9


Hurricanes are pretty scary, especially when you are home alone with a baby while your husband is away on his warship. I weathered out so many during our years in Norfolk that I quit counting at 16.

Volcanoes are another. We had to have an emergency evacuation plan plus all of our vital records and passports all together in one place in the unlikely event that we had to scram.

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A Thinker (Female, 22-25) answered:

Screenname: nicole88


An earthquake, I panicked and grabbed all my stuff but it was over quick

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A Creative (Female, 46-55, Civil Service) answered:

Screenname: nysbikergirl


Snow and ice storms
snow as in up to 5 feet in a few days..paralyzing the whole area into a state of emergency. Horrible ice storms as well

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A Mr. Nice Guy (Male, 46-55) answered:

Screenname: pepperman46


Tornado. i saw one over my house but it didn't comedown until it was away from us.

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A Creative (Female, 46-55, Who Cares?) answered:

Screenname: tacobell


When I lived in Oklahoma we had a lot of tornado's and hail and I hated that. I didn't like the house shaking and all the damage it left everyone. I hate seeing all the people that die and have lost every thing they own.

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A Life of the Party (Female, Cleveland, 26-28, Who Cares?) answered:

Screenname: carriesueud


I remember we were driving somewhere on a family vacation. I think we had just made a stop somewhere to eat at a pizza hut. There was a thunderstorm when we stopped. Anyway, the weather was REALLY BAD, and while we were eating it got worse. The sky was turning green and we they were telling us that we might have to move to emergency mode. We just sat and waited for a while, adn then it passed. Close call though!

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A Creative (Female, Who Cares?) answered:

Screenname: nightingale226


Hurricanes.....specific ally Carol & Bob.....it was exciting and scary all at the same time....watching a large tree go almost over...the wind shifted and brought it right back in plce...that was unbelievable......after the storm is exciting....

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A Guy Critical (Male, 36-45) answered:

Screenname: tiger8urkat


tornado...............: ") And I'm still here....

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A Sweet Sarah (Female, Philadelphia, 29-35, Financial / Banking) answered:

Screenname: taratara


a few hurricaine back lashes nothing too serious, luckily for me

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A Life of the Party (Female, Atlanta, 29-35, Financial / Banking) answered:

Screenname: bikerchick1


A blizzard. We aren't prepared for that kind of weather here.

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A Thinker (Female, 46-55, Who Cares?) answered:

Screenname: MaryAnne


Tornado, scarry as hell. I still get very scared when the wind suddenly picks up during a thunderstorm.

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A Cool Mom (Female, Portland, 18-21, Self-Employed) answered:

Screenname: screwauthority83


Worst storm I had to encounter was a Ice Storm- that was horrible.. peoples roofs collapsed, and people couldn't get out of their houses.


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A Thinker (Female, 36-45, Fitness) answered:


A tornado came in to the Fort Lauderdale while while the plane was taking off. Why the hell did they take off? It was a rough flight until we got over Cuba. I was traumatized.

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A Married Girl (Female, 36-45, Artist / Musician / Writer) answered:

Screenname: msgg


Hurricane Katrina and the droves of people that flooded our city seeking shelter. Our power was out for 6 days, but working with the Redcross at the shelter is something I will never ever forget.
It was an experience that changed my life forever.

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A Hippie Chick (Female, Las Vegas, 26-28, Teaching) answered:

Screenname: hearo97


A winter lightning storm. They're really rare, but it's when a blizard is electrically charged and produces lightning.

Very very creepy.

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An Engaged Guy (Male, 26-28, Administrative) answered:

Screenname: troublemaker


The worst thing I've experienced was a dust storm that turned the sky red and then followed by heavy rain.

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A Career Woman (Female, Las Vegas, Who Cares?, Celebrity) answered:

Screenname: luckycowgirl


tornado warnings and hail in south dakota..

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A Guy Critical (Male, 22-25) answered:

Screenname: jehovavich


dust storm

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