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When I was 12, our entire valley was flooded by a hurricane. It took 20-yrs for it to recover. Worse, because of the flood, we were yanked from that small town where people were kind & polite to the poorest, most violent section of a hostile northeastern city, where people were the opposite & the winters were brutal.
CO & SoCal wildfires.
An Atlanta tornado that picked up my car & moved it 2 exits on the highway... fortunately, I had abandoned my car & was waiting for someone to pick me up.
Many gnarly blizzards & nor'easters... I had to drive through them all.
Add to that 2 house fires & although not weather, I feel like I've seen it all.
-66 at Eielson AFB Alaska and 128 at Laughlin NV.... Blizzard of 82/83 in Denver, CO... Hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico and Houston, TX... And just missed Katrina by 5 days...
70 below with windchills in Michigan a few years ago. The cold and wind were so bitter it could kill a person in minutes. My grandmother tried to shovel the snow and I came for her at 5 a.m. to do it so she wouldn't die out there. Even with a thermal coat, leggings, boots, hat, scarves, and gloves I literally was almost toast. Had to take breaks to get warm water and coffee. It was brutal.
Where/when I grew up, they wouldn't call off school until the windchills were <-60 degrees (F). Those mornings trying to coax the car to start in the -50's were just painful.
I recall another time driving and hearing on the radio of a tornado just touching down, near where I was. I looked out the passenger side window and sure enough, it had just touched down and was pretty scary.
We had lighting hit a large maple we have in the backyard as well. It left a huge scar in the tree as the winding charges moved opposite of one another down the tree and too the ground. It's maybe 25 feet from where I sleep.
Hail can be scary, but doesn't normally last long. For some reason I always found thunderstorms on long summer afternoons calming, but it scares some.
Now I live in California. It's mild all the time and positively boring perfection. My folks were quite concerned when some eager broadcaster noted we were getting the storm of the decade. They called, I opened the door and translated that we were getting a gentle almost windless rain, and we chuckled at the difference in perceptions.
Nothing remarkable, but I experienced my first real downpour in New Orleans a few months ago. With one dart across the street, I was as drenched as if I had fallen into a lake.
Nothing remarkable, but I experienced my first real downpour in New Orleans a few months ago. With one dart across the street, I was as drenched as if I had fallen into a lake.
Ever get " soft rain" where you are? - very fine droplets and ones you can hardly feel, but 5 seconds will leave you totally soaked
Lol, that's cute. Where do you live? I don't know what the record is but two consecutive days of non stop rain isn't exactly unheard of for us.
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