Serious Storms

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    There's a tornado warning in my area right now. The winds have been howling all night, bending the trees and shaking the window shutters. I thought this would make for interesting discussion. Have any of you ever had first hand experience with really serious weather conditions like a tornado, hurricane, tsunami or blizzard?
     
    sam go take shelter or something instead of making threads >=[

    Weather extremes are kind of rare where I live. NJ gets like, 1 (weak) tornado a year on average, and I've never seen one in person. Blizzards I think we've had twice in my life, but I could be a little off on that depending on what counts as a blizzard, we've had our share of shitty winters. By the time most hurricanes get up here they're more like a big thunderstorm than a hurricane, but we've had a few bad ones, like Floyd in the late 90s and Sandy in 2012.

    idk if the US east coast has had to deal with a tsunami
     
    I love to learn and study weather ever since I was a kid but I'm mortified when we get bad weather. If we get bad weather I will babysit the news and the radar on my laptop. I remember about 5-6 years ago my group of friends went to Colossal Con in Ohio and I was at home. We had horrible weather and they had tornadoes and the girls slept through it while the guys tried to wake them up. I told them had I gone no one would be sleeping because I'd be wide awake.
     
    Not really weather releated, but in Chile we get earthquakes all the time, but just small tremors, at least for the five years I've been living here. In fact we got one like 2 nights ago, I got so used to them that I stayed in my bed and went back to sleep after it stopped.

    Now, about bad weather... like 3? summers ago we had like 2 or 3 days of gales. All of the dust was raised by the wind that it took some time to clean everything.

    Also, since this city isn't used to rains, every time it happens some houses get flooded even if it's just a little water. Rain doesn't count as bad weather for me, but it probably counts here.
     
    It's pretty swampy where I live, so we get frequent flooding when it rains a lot. Hurricane season is in the summer so we'll probably get at least one decent hurricane this year. It's pretty rare that we don't. But they're also not that bad in terms of hurricanes, just high winds and flooding. A few years ago, our basement turned into a pond, and the year before that the wind was so bad that a few shingles flew off our roof. Found one from then on the ground yesterday, lol. Overall, my area tends to have mild (if not highly sporadic) weather.

    Here's wishing you the best around that tornado! Please stay safe and take shelter if you need it!
     
    my state is pretty notorious for hurricanes, to the point where like, it's the one thing that people actively remember about it besides all the weird news stories and all that.

    maybe i've been lucky over the years but i haven't been personally smacked by any hard-hitters. here's hoping that luck carries over to this year lol.
     
    I've never witnessed extreme weather. I love in the middle of the prairies nowhere near the ocean so I'm safe from hurricanes and such. Here, the worst we get is extreme winds. The worst of which that I recall was wind storm that occurred on the last day of 5th grade. There was a tornado warning (we get them frequently during the summer) and the wind was so strong that it tore up one of the trees in my backyard and littered branches everywhere. We had to uproot the tree afterwards due to all of the damage. I've never seen an actual tornado though and none have touched down in or around my city for a few decades at the very least.

    We've had a few severe blizzards as well but there isn't one in particular that I can recall being destructive. We've also experienced a few hailstorms but those are much less common and most of them are short-lived.
     
    The most extreme weather I've witnessed was Hurricane Isabel in 2003. The eye came right over where I live, and man was it hard to sleep that night. Sounded like the roof of my house would have flown off at any time.
     
    The only newsworthy storms I've witnessed were the Snowmageddon of 2010 and Hurricane Sandy in 2012. (I'm in the Northeast US)
     
    Hurricane Irene caused our family to completely lose power for an entire week.

    We didn't have any backup generators so most days were spent playing cards and nights were spent with small lamps.
     
    seen lots of hurricanes back in russia, can fairly vividly remember a few of them turning the sky near pitch black in the middle of the day. those were some creepy but epic summers, haha

    otherwise, there have been a couple of hurricanes here in the last decade. hurricane irene didn't do as much to us compared to the one we were hit with a few years later, sandy, which flooded the house around 4-5 feet. thankfully we had home insurance to cover all the damages... @_@
     
    Nah said:
    Russia gets hurricanes? And a lot of them?
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    in sochi russia, which is a subtropical area right on the black sea (quite warm and a beach resort destination) yeah it can happen from my experience having been raised there and going back for vacations (though i haven't been for around 14 years now). experienced plenty of heavy and extremely loud thunderstorms too
     
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