Poll: Worst Weather Your Area's Ever Had

[Sonic Doctor]

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?

My location:

US, Indiana. Just a little south of the middle.

I have experienced everything on that list except tidal waves. If I experienced tidal waves here, I think that besides the tidal waves, there is obviously something bigger going on that I need to worry about.

I experienced an earthquake a few years back when I was going to a university in southern Indiana. I was asleep and then I was woke up by what I thought was an explosion. It turned out that about three or so hours away across the border in Illinois, there was an earthquake. It is such a rare occurrence that they actually made us leave our dorm rooms and gather in the sports fields. We then had a few aftershocks during class hours.

On the cats and dogs, I will replace that with birds. Many years ago, I would say more than a decade ago, I'm thinking mid 90's, it happened after one of the big hurricanes that hit the US. A few days later I was staying at my grandma's house and we woke up and looked outside and her entire yard was filled with living and moving birds. With how big her yard is all around the house(it's out in the country surrounded by woods), I'm willing to estimate that there were at least a few hundred thousand birds just chilling out and hopping around the yard.

I thought I had become part of an Alfred Hitchcock movie, it could have been The Birds 2.

Apparently that hurricane had been so bad down south that it messed up the birds and they got blown up here.

What I find strange is that the US has had so many just as powerful if not more so hurricanes since then, but the bird thing never happened again.

 

[Nixzilla]

i live in arkansas and we have been hit with tornados non stop for 2 days now

 

[Sulgoth]

Honestly living in a city where the weather is more often than not trying to kill you kinda takes all the fun out of reminiscing about the the other times its tried. No tornadoes or anything, just a *hit ton of snow and a relative lack of standards for your average drivers test, we've topped 1000 accidents in a day and we just past 1 mill in the last 2 years.

 

[Sir_Auron_the_Badass]

Worst weather I've ever seen in person was a few years ago. Had a massive storm from that lasted nearly a week with non-stop torrential rain (I mean the WHOLE FUCKING time, so we had major flooding in the lower areas of the city), +50mph winds almost the whole time, huge chunks of hail that actually shattered a couple of our cars' and one of our house's windows, and a few monstrous tornadoes (one of which was an F-5 category) reached my hometown. That week was scary as all hell.

 

[Slenn]

In my life in Lawrence, KS I've taken shelter from at least 2 tornados and 1 microburst. The tornados never hit any part of where I lived in Lawrence, however the microburst pretty much hit everywhere. If you don't know what a microburst is, it's essentially a tornado where instead the wind blows down and out. It didn't destroy that much, but it sure made a huge mess. Pretty much everywhere large sections of trees and debris were lodged into houses, streets, and lawns. And the whole town was littered with the rainy mush of tree leaves and vegetation.

These videos where not taken by me. But they're pretty good footage of what I had in the past.
2003
2006

 

[Sonic Doctor]

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

Use to, when I heard about people losing power for a full day, I thought that was bad.

A couple years ago when I was going to a university in southern Indiana, in the dead of winter, there was an ice storm that froze the lines and knocked out power for four days. Campus apartments didn't have generators like the central campus class buildings, so I had no heat for four days in the dead of winter. We could only stay in the central campus class buildings until classes were over, then I had to back and sleep in the dead cold apartment, after about a day, blankets just don't cut it against the cold, because they freeze just like every other surface or object.

 

[2xDouble]

Hurricaines, and the dreaded "Nor'easter" storms. Epic ice storms, insane winds and rain, downright biblical flooding, hail flying at near hypersonic speed, sometimes snow on top of that...

Tornadoes are sissy storms compared to these monstrosities. [sub]*trollface*[/sub] I know, I've been through both.

I have to say though, by far the scariest weather I've experienced is Thundersnow. It's not scary in the "oh God, I'm going to die!" sense, but in a "what the hell is that? some kind of crazy stuff is going down" way. Help me out here, Lew:

...I saw snow and lightning... together. And I hadn't done drugs. When you hear thunder outside, and you get up to look, you have an expectation. And it's not snow with lighting behind it. That's fucked up. They don't even write about that kind of weather in the Bible. You'd think if a prophet had seen that kind of weather, after he wiped the poop out of his pants, he'd have told us about it! I was supposed to work that night, I said "I'm not coming in, because I am scared shitless! Because I know what the next season is gonna be: Locusts."

 

[somonels]

It rained bombs and 80% of the city was turned to debris.

 

[LFC Scouser]

An ice storm covering everything in ice some people I knows roof caved in it was pretty bad

 

[Mauso88]

I've lived in my town for 25 years and I've never seen snow and ice as bad as it's been in the past 2 to 3 years, I blame global warming...

 

[Ogre Arnett]

I live in Chicago. Nuff said.

 

[Klarinette]

I live in the Great Lakes Basin, so we get a lot of pretty rough thunderstorms. There was one year where a tornado hit somewhere close to where I live (I'm talking a few blocks), apparently. There was also one up on the escarpment that took the roof off a school. Tornadoes don't happen often, but yeah.

 

[NightRavenGSA]

Being in Minnesota tornadoes are probably the most common severe phenomena as we know how to deal with snow, we're used to flooding, and rain is just beautiful. However, if the local fault lines decide to act up it could be devastating, we're Minnesota, not California

 

[Kapol]

That I can remember? The worst weather we had was a freezing-rain storm that happened not long ago. EVERYTHING was coated in ice, so much so that most of the county lost power for almost an entire week. Tree limbs became too heavy and fell from from the trees, crushing cars, while I saw the upper half of a power line get bent to a 45 degree angle. It was pretty crazy.

 

[DirgeNovak]

We had two terrible icestorms in 94 and 95. No electricity at all for about half of Québec in the middle of winter. Most people couldn't even stay in their own homes for 2-3 weeks those two years, since most of us heat our homes with electricity.

 

[CaptainKoala]

Fifteen degrees below zero, and over a yard of snow in my driveway. Overnight. Yup, welcome to Duluth, MN. Grab your shovels kids because winters' a *****.

Spoiler: I hope you love snow. Lots and lots of snow

 

[DarkhoIlow]

We had a flood back in 2010 that killed a few dozen people:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Romanian_floods

Don't know but if this is the worsest,but back in the '90s I remember that we had one of the coldest winters ever.(around -20/25 degrees).