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Zuni (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-09-04 03:10 PM Original message |
worst storm you have ever witnessed? |
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agates (743 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-09-04 03:11 PM Response to Original message |
1. An F5 Tornado |
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Zuni (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-09-04 03:15 PM Response to Reply #1 |
14. I once had a small tornado rip up my backyard |
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Burma Jones (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-09-04 03:11 PM Response to Original message |
2. Hurricane Camille |
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Zuni (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-09-04 03:13 PM Response to Reply #2 |
7. I was just reading about Camille |
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Rowdyboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-09-04 03:20 PM Response to Reply #2 |
19. 120 miles inland from Camille, and it was STILL the baddest-ass |
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guitar man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-09-04 03:11 PM Response to Original message |
3. May 3, 1999 Tornado |
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Zuni (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-09-04 03:20 PM Response to Reply #3 |
20. I just looked it up |
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guitar man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-09-04 03:58 PM Response to Reply #20 |
28. that's correct |
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indepat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-09-04 03:12 PM Response to Original message |
4. Betsy in New Orleans Sept 1965, nine days after we bought our first house |
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markus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-09-04 03:24 PM Response to Reply #4 |
22. Betsy, as a first grader |
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virgdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-09-04 03:13 PM Response to Original message |
5. Typhoon Omar in Guam in August 1992 |
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9119495 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-09-04 03:13 PM Response to Original message |
6. Storm Thurmond |
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Dzimbowicz (911 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-09-04 04:27 PM Response to Reply #6 |
35. From the Palmetto state... |
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Renew Deal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-09-04 03:13 PM Response to Original message |
8. 1985 Gloria |
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Zuni (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-09-04 03:15 PM Response to Reply #8 |
16. I remember Gloria |
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Renew Deal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-09-04 03:19 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. Me too. |
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bigwillq (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-09-04 05:13 PM Response to Reply #8 |
49. Gloria was probably the worst for me too but |
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Fuzz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-09-04 05:20 PM Response to Reply #8 |
51. I went sailing with 3 friends on a catamaran a couple days after Gloria |
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Kid_A (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-09-04 03:13 PM Response to Original message |
9. The line in the first X-Men movie about toads and lightning. |
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alittlelark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-09-04 03:13 PM Response to Original message |
10. The most interesting was in ABQ last month. |
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Beware the Beast Man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-09-04 03:13 PM Response to Original message |
11. 2 massive storm cells that blew through Pittsburgh. |
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No Mandate Here. (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-09-04 03:27 PM Response to Reply #11 |
23. This was the same storm that destroyed |
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Beware the Beast Man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-09-04 03:30 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. Oh yes, I remember that one. |
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Zuni (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-09-04 03:40 PM Response to Reply #24 |
27. I remember some fierce winter storms |
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NuckinFutz (852 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-09-04 03:14 PM Response to Original message |
12. May 1999...tornado in OK |
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Nite Owl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-09-04 03:14 PM Response to Original message |
13. Hurricane Gloria |
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Cha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-09-04 03:15 PM Response to Original message |
15. First and only Hurricane Iniki all Over |
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lilymidnite (330 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-09-04 03:18 PM Response to Original message |
17. Tornado ... |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-09-04 03:21 PM Response to Original message |
21. sat out a hurricane on the Outer Banks |
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Squeech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-09-04 03:37 PM Response to Original message |
25. 1978 blizzard |
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ironflange (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-09-04 03:40 PM Response to Original message |
26. Summer of 2000 |
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Pithlet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-09-04 04:04 PM Response to Original message |
29. The bow echo system |
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Xithras (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-09-04 04:24 PM Response to Reply #29 |
33. We don't typically name storms in California |
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Pithlet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-09-04 04:33 PM Response to Reply #33 |
39. Really? |
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Xithras (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-09-04 05:00 PM Response to Reply #39 |
45. Naw, we name our earthquakes. Storms are just a sideshow ;-) |
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Pithlet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-09-04 05:04 PM Response to Reply #45 |
46. Not me. |
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Xithras (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-09-04 05:18 PM Response to Reply #46 |
50. But they're rare and 99% do absolutely no damage |
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Pithlet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-09-04 05:25 PM Response to Reply #50 |
54. I readily admit |
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Cheswick2.0 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-09-04 04:05 PM Response to Original message |
30. Andrew |
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miss_kitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-09-04 04:10 PM Response to Original message |
31. here in WA state |
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flamingyouth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-09-04 04:18 PM Response to Original message |
32. Our Inauguration Day storm in 1993 |
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miss_kitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-09-04 04:36 PM Response to Reply #32 |
40. was the '93 storm worse than the storms that took out |
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flamingyouth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-09-04 04:38 PM Response to Reply #40 |
41. I don't know - I of course remember those as well |
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miss_kitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-09-04 04:48 PM Response to Reply #41 |
42. i am actually old enough to remember the '62 storm... |
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flamingyouth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-09-04 04:49 PM Response to Reply #42 |
43. My parents had just started dating |
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curse10 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-09-04 04:26 PM Response to Original message |
34. Hurricane Alicia (Galveston/Houston) |
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TrogL (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-09-04 04:27 PM Response to Original message |
36. Category five tornado |
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DrWeird (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-09-04 04:31 PM Response to Original message |
37. Not the biggest, but the coolest... |
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AlFrankenFan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-09-04 04:33 PM Response to Original message |
38. Pretty bad tornado in 1995 or 1996 in Northern VA and.. |
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Misunderestimator (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-09-04 04:52 PM Response to Original message |
44. From where I was sitting, Frances... but there were some pretty |
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politicat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-09-04 05:07 PM Response to Original message |
47. Born during a blizzard in 76 and it's been the same since?? |
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Zynx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-09-04 05:11 PM Response to Original message |
48. Weird jet-stream drop/wind shear attack |
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barackmyworld (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-09-04 05:21 PM Response to Original message |
52. quantity, not quality here |
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grannylib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-09-04 05:23 PM Response to Original message |
53. Tornado came through my home town while the circus was set up at the |
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UrbScotty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-09-04 05:33 PM Response to Original message |
55. Besides the Bush administration? We had a massive windstorm in 1998. |
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