Poll: Worst Weather Your Area's Ever Had

[spectrenihlus]

I live in San Francisco's Bay Area

what do you think

Although I don't think I would consider earthquakes a weather phenomena.

 

[jaoblia]

My Town (Oshawa Ontario) just got hit with INSANE(though short) amounts of rain,which got me completly drenched me in about 3 seconds, starting during my paper route no less. So whats the worst wather you've ever gotten?

3 seconds?

Hard Rain, followed by flooding so severe that my family had to trudge through waist-high flood waters during the rain for two hours to relocate to my cousin's house, while carrying around our vital stuff (the flood entered our house). Then we had to stay there for a month because the waters don't drain fast enough. For perspective: that's whole month's worth of rain in one day. Needless to say, clean-up's a *****. And we had it easy compared to other areas (whole houses submerged, cars in some towns found turned over at other cities, etc.)

DAMN, now i feel like a pansy, i live in an area thats perfectly situated inland so we don't get any horrible weather.Seriously, floods have happenend to all the places around my town and the worst "natural diaster" was an incredibly weak earthquake.We have gotten Lots of rain before this (not as bad as today) but it seems to drain fast on account of the hills in my area.

 

[Neo10101]

We're right near a few rivers. My own house didn't get flooded, but I know a few people whose did.

 

[Erana]

Hrm... Right now, perhaps? Teacup-sized hail and cracked windows, possibility of tornadoes...
I'm serious. I could walk out the door right now and grab a handful of golfball and larger hailstones.

If any of my shutters are broken, I am going to be REALLY annoyed; I just put 'em back up!

 

[infohippie]

Just this past winter my area had the coldest weather it's ever had in 97 years, and record snow and ice in several areas. Global warming my ass.

Weather is not climate. And local climate is not global climate. Global warming will, in fact, make some parts of the planet much colder.

 

[Ryuo]

Well recently the rather aggressive storm that swept through the mid-US gave us copious amounts of rain and had a tornado on the ground about a mile away from where I live. Tiny little thing, but still. (Russellville AR)

Though where I used to live in AZ There was a freak flash flood through the desert. After the fact there wasn't a place that didn't have sand in it.

'bout it for me.

 

[Lilani]

Just this past winter my area had the coldest weather it's ever had in 97 years, and record snow and ice in several areas. Global warming my ass.

Weather is not climate. And local climate is not global climate. Global warming will, in fact, make some parts of the planet much colder.

[Sigh] It seems sarcasm is lost on this one.

 

[infohippie]

Just this past winter my area had the coldest weather it's ever had in 97 years, and record snow and ice in several areas. Global warming my ass.

Weather is not climate. And local climate is not global climate. Global warming will, in fact, make some parts of the planet much colder.

[Sigh] It seems sarcasm is lost on this one.

Sorry, I didn't pick up on the sarcasm. That's because an awful lot of global warming deniers say this exact same thing in complete seriousness. My apologies for mistaking you.

 

[Lilani]

-snip-

No, your first assumption was correct. I do think global warming is a rather pretentious concept, to think that we could have screwed up the whole earth in 200 years worse than anything else that could have happened in the past 4 billion years it has existed.

However, the comment I made there was purely for the sarcasm and irony. No intended fuel for a fire of environmental debate.

:3

 

[dragonhunter21]

Once had a tornado out here ("Out here" being the middle of Kansas) that destroyed an old factory, I think. Last year we had a monster ice storm that caused enough issues with power and buses that we didn't have school for a full week. Good times.

 

[Vault101]

around mid last year in Perth there was this freak hail storm

It came out of nowhere and it was raining ice cubs, scared the crap out of me...thankk god I got home before it started

weeks and weeks after there were cars driving around with "golf ball" dents

 

[crudus]

We have had rain for the passed 4-5 days. We also had about 6 tornado warnings in that time and 3 actual tornadoes.

 

[Phlakes]

Well, for some reason in central Texas, we don't get hail very often, but when we do it's huge. Like, sometimes even softball sized. People were getting concussions from the impacts. I have pictures (of the hail, not the people) somewhere but I don't want to find them.

Anyway, it hailed once and everybody's car was extremely dented and their roofs were damaged, so everyone got them all fixed/replaced. Then, a couple months later, same kind of hail. It's a *****.

 

[BreakfastMan]

Well, considering I live in western Washington, rain and floods are never a real problem. A couple years ago we had some killer snow that nearly shut down the entire state. That was pretty bad... Beyond that, nothing really major.

 

[stone0042]

We'll get a snow storm of over 3 feet of snow every couple of years, shuts everything down for a couple days. 4 years ago we had one in october, and since all the trees still had their leaves they got destroyed by the weight of the snow

 

[jdogtwodolla]

Oregon rains for 9 months, but it rarely ever has tornadoes that rip through small towns.

 

[Draken Steel]

I like in Arkansas, TONS of tornadoes. Lost power for a full day Tuesday, nearby town still doesn't have any.

 

[Naheal]

"Bad" weather isn't the word. "Erratic" weather is. I live in a temperate desert. It snowed yesterday. It was 70 F and sunny today.

 

[Timmehexas]

Silly forums double posting.

 

[Timmehexas]

Cyclone Yasi and the floods that came before it, was a good month.