Earthquakes aren’t weather events although they are forces of nature so I will probably say winter 2023s stormageddon. The flooding up on the Central Coast of California was pretty m************ bad
Earthquakes aren’t weather events although they are forces of nature …
@Cerridwyn I was north of the freeway collapse after the Northridge quake hit. I ended up detouring through Palmdale / Lake Los Angeles / El Mirage / Adelanto and down the 395/I-15 to get back home.
@narfcake depending on where you live, that can be a serious detour when i was driving from Monterey to redlands regularly i always enjoyed cough the fact that google maps never sent me the same way twice
couple of strong thunderstorms come to mind, saw some massive trees go down like like rag dolls. it would be hard for a blizzard to scare me - maybe if i were lost in the woods - but i wouldn’t wander too far in a snowstorm so i don’t know how that would happen
Have experienced all of these, but the only truly scary experience was when total whiteout conditions came out of nowhere while crossing the Cascades. Pulled off the highway as far as possible to wait it out. Was not afraid of the actual weather, but knowing there are idiots out there who will continue to drive under such circumstances was terrifying. Kept envisioning blind high speed impact. The wind also made it impossible to hear approaching traffic which definitely didn’t help the anxiety.
@lordbowen Dust storms on I-10 in New Mexico often produce functionally similar visibility issues without the added fun of potentially getting snowbound.
I’ve been at ground zero for a Cat5 hurricane, and I learned after the fact that I had driven through the edge of a tornado. I’ve driven ahead of and through flooding, once being the last car through before the road got closed as it was washing out. I think I have as much close exposure to that kind of thing as I want.
I was in Tillamook OR for the Columbus Day Storm. But I was a young child and didn’t really comprehend the severity - I just thought it was fun that we were using candles for light and a Coleman camp stove for cooking. Like a camp out!
I’ve seen a lot of disasters, but thankfully nothing too extreme (as in they were low on the category of destruction). Flooding, sandstorms, snowstorms, quakes, tidal waves, even a tornado or two.
I’ve also seen some fun semi natural disasters: three sewer covers flying into the air because something overheated below the street.
Bright Sunshine!!
{SHUDDER} Oh, the humanity!!!
All of the above
Many a hurricane, being a Florida resident.
Earthquakes aren’t weather events although they are forces of nature so I will probably say winter 2023s stormageddon. The flooding up on the Central Coast of California was pretty m************ bad
@Cerridwyn I was north of the freeway collapse after the Northridge quake hit. I ended up detouring through Palmdale / Lake Los Angeles / El Mirage / Adelanto and down the 395/I-15 to get back home.
@narfcake depending on where you live, that can be a serious detour when i was driving from Monterey to redlands regularly i always enjoyed cough the fact that google maps never sent me the same way twice
couple of strong thunderstorms come to mind, saw some massive trees go down like like rag dolls. it would be hard for a blizzard to scare me - maybe if i were lost in the woods - but i wouldn’t wander too far in a snowstorm so i don’t know how that would happen
My wife’s hot flash and the house blizzard as a result.
@hchavers
Those are real and not to be made fun of. But your comment was funny.
Clipped a semi with a fifth wheel driving in hurricane force winds. Didn’t realize it until we got to campground.
Also lived through Blizzard of '78 in Ohio, but it wasn’t scary. Quite the opposite. Great fun for a kid.
/giphy Blizzard '78
Have experienced all of these, but the only truly scary experience was when total whiteout conditions came out of nowhere while crossing the Cascades. Pulled off the highway as far as possible to wait it out. Was not afraid of the actual weather, but knowing there are idiots out there who will continue to drive under such circumstances was terrifying. Kept envisioning blind high speed impact. The wind also made it impossible to hear approaching traffic which definitely didn’t help the anxiety.
@lordbowen Dust storms on I-10 in New Mexico often produce functionally similar visibility issues without the added fun of potentially getting snowbound.
I’ve been at ground zero for a Cat5 hurricane, and I learned after the fact that I had driven through the edge of a tornado. I’ve driven ahead of and through flooding, once being the last car through before the road got closed as it was washing out. I think I have as much close exposure to that kind of thing as I want.
A lightning strike about 20 feet away.
A Southern California brush fire. Those things can move faster than a horse can run!
@eddhernandez and leap much higher fences
I was in Tillamook OR for the Columbus Day Storm. But I was a young child and didn’t really comprehend the severity - I just thought it was fun that we were using candles for light and a Coleman camp stove for cooking. Like a camp out!
@macromeh i wasnt born yet, but im in the salem area, and it was even bad all the way in here!
Multiple blizzards and several 6 ft+ storms but I don’t really consider them scary. More an inconvenience
I once drove through the falling debris of a tornado, in Iowa. No trees anywhere near the highway but a giant tree limb hit the ground in front of me.
And I’ve lived in Chicago for the past 50 years, so I/ve also been through a 6 foot dump of snow and a heatwave that killed ~800 people.
I’ve seen a lot of disasters, but thankfully nothing too extreme (as in they were low on the category of destruction). Flooding, sandstorms, snowstorms, quakes, tidal waves, even a tornado or two.
I’ve also seen some fun semi natural disasters: three sewer covers flying into the air because something overheated below the street.