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In reply to the discussion: What weather events have you been in? I was in the great icestorm Ontario/Quebec in about 1998. [View all]fizzgig
(24,146 posts)13. no hurricanes, mostly snow related
we got four feet of snow overnight on st. patty's day 2002 (it was the first st patty's day i could drink and i was hungover as hell trying to dig my car out.)
we got two four-foot snowfalls two days apart right before christmas of 05 or 06, can't remember which.
there was our 100 year flood back in 97, i've never seen so much rain here before or since. five people died when a mobile home park in a low-lying area when the creek flooded
the town about 10 miles southeast of us got smashed by a tornado in may of 08. we were supposed to be coming back from a trip out of town but got call after call to stay put.
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What weather events have you been in? I was in the great icestorm Ontario/Quebec in about 1998. [View all]
applegrove
Feb 2012
OP
105 degree heat in July 1995, broken by a storm with hail the size of baseballs.
Denninmi
Feb 2012
#3
Hurricane Camille, a bunch of other hurricanes. The Great Texas Drought of 2011.
jobycom
Mar 2012
#7
Hurricane Camille, 1965 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak, Hurricane Isabel, Hurricane Agnes
Burma Jones
Mar 2012
#16
Agnes, '72. Flooded Ellicott City and destroyed one of the Ellicott brothers' houses.
HopeHoops
Mar 2012
#19
Oh, and the back-to-back 2' snowfalls in the DC area, late 70's - 2 weeks apart.
HopeHoops
Mar 2012
#20
I think the only things I haven't been through are typhoons, tidal waves, and mudslides.
Behind the Aegis
Mar 2012
#34