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tornadoes because most times you never know they are coming, and even when you do you have 1-10mins to get out the way..at least with a hurricane you know days in advance..or a flood, you can see it gradually happening
I'm sorry that you broke your leg. But earthquake is not a weather/meteorological event.
I agree. Too often weather events are conflated with natural disasters in general. Even the American Weather Channel does this from time to time. It's most annoying.
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Originally Posted by Kaul
I'm shocked that some people can blindly choose ice and fog over tornadoes. What kind of world is this?
A world where many people have preferences and attitudes that are different than mine or yours. Still, I'd think that even for these people being trapped in a tornado would be a lot more frightening than trying to negotiate an icy road or fog. At least in these two you can pull over to the side of the road, and there are countermeasures, whereas withstanding a tornado is quite difficult. Feat is a different matter, but I wonder if many of the voters are basing their choices on what they dislike, as opposed to what they fear.
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Originally Posted by L'Artiste
tornadoes because most times you never know they are coming, and even when you do you have 1-10mins to get out the way..at least with a hurricane you know days in advance..or a flood, you can see it gradually happening
The latter supposition doesn't apply if it's a flash flood.
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Originally Posted by Flight Simmer
drizzle. Nothing worse than staring down a week of overcast damp mucky drizzly gloom
Drizzle may be lousy (for you anyway), but I have trouble seeing how it could be in the least bit frightening.
For me, it's heavy fog or torrential downpours. Sometimes, I've actually seen situations where there's fog and heavy rain at the same time, seriously decreasing visibility to where you can't even see the road in front of you.
Drizzle may be lousy (for you anyway), but I have trouble seeing how it could be in the least bit frightening.
I understand that you foam all over any form of crap weather, but cloudy grey cold drizzle is scary for its tremendous depression value. And ofcourse for the fact that it makes the landscape look as if polluted by H-bomb fallout (right down to radioactive bullcrap falling out of the sky in a fine, foggy mist), as opposed to vibrant colourful sunshine.
Severe Blizzards have to be the most terrifying weather phenomenon on earth. 100 mile per hour winds heavy snow no way to keep warm and no way to escape.
Waking up in a house when its below 0 inside is not fun.
I understand that you foam all over any form of crap weather, but cloudy grey cold drizzle is scary for its tremendous depression value. And ofcourse for the fact that it makes the landscape look as if polluted by H-bomb fallout (right down to radioactive bullcrap falling out of the sky in a fine, foggy mist), as opposed to vibrant colourful sunshine.
I see. I learned something new today, which is one of the main points of this entire forum.
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Severe Blizzards have to be the most terrifying weather phenomenon on earth. 100 mile per hour winds heavy snow no way to keep warm and no way to escape.
Waking up in a house when its below 0 inside is not fun.
Perhaps two little inventions have escaped your mind, namely central heating and arctic-grade warm clothing. Even if you didn't have central heating subzero temperatures could be dealt with inside with warm clothing and blankets, though even for me that would be a major problem, plus the added displeasure of likely having pipes burst. Getting out of bed would be quite an involved process. In addition, warm clothing, assuming it's high-grade, will protect you against the strongest blizzards, although zero visibility would greatly impair you and depending on circumstances could prove deadly, unless you're properly prepared for it with a rope line that you could follow back to your home base. Of course this depends on how cold it is. 100 mph winds when it's close to freezing isn't cold enough to kill a person (10F wind chill). However if there's 100 mph winds when it's -40 out, then you'll encounter a good deal of risk even with the warmest clothing available (-100F wind chill).
I see. I learned something new today, which is one of the main points of this entire forum.
Perhaps two little inventions have escaped your mind, namely central heating and arctic-grade warm clothing. Even if you didn't have central heating subzero temperatures could be dealt with inside with warm clothing and blankets, though even for me that would be a major problem, plus the added displeasure of likely having pipes burst. Getting out of bed would be quite an involved process. In addition, warm clothing, assuming it's high-grade, will protect you against the strongest blizzards, although zero visibility would greatly impair you and depending on circumstances could prove deadly, unless you're properly prepared for it with a rope line that you could follow back to your home base. Of course this depends on how cold it is. 100 mph winds when it's close to freezing isn't cold enough to kill a person (10F wind chill). However if there's 100 mph winds when it's -40 out, then you'll encounter a good deal of risk even with the warmest clothing available (-100F wind chill).
You adore extreme cold, so why would you need arctic-grade warm clothing and central heating? And why would getting out of bed be an "involved process", when you find bone chilling temps to be so invigorating?
I understand that you foam all over any form of crap weather, but cloudy grey cold drizzle is scary for its tremendous depression value. And ofcourse for the fact that it makes the landscape look as if polluted by H-bomb fallout (right down to radioactive bullcrap falling out of the sky in a fine, foggy mist), as opposed to vibrant colourful sunshine.
Your posts are always funny, thanks for sticking around.
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