Snap Response - The Worst Weather

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

We live around the world, us Escapists. What is the worst weather you've had to live through?

For me its easily the Saskatchewan Blizzard of 2007, where I got stranded a few miles out of town and had to walk through it to safety (pretty harrowing but I was close enough to not really be in terrible danger).

Being from the interior, I've never had to deal with tropical storms of any description so I expect my story will be amongst the mildest remembered here in the end.

Anyway, what's your storm story?

 

[Vicarious Reality]

Well it was pretty windy yesterday, my hat almost blew off

It is pretty bothersome to live through winter when the road to work looks like this

One of the first sunny days of the year, really quite absurdly warm winter, barely ever got below -20
Loads of snow though, had to actually un-bury my bike after the worst snowfall, even snowed an hour ago

I hate when i have to navigate by hearing on the way home from work

/incoherentrant

 

[Asclepion]

I am from Hawaii. Kilauea constantly erupts clouds of sulfuric acid and vaporized minerals, and we get the occasional tsunami.

 

[Lil devils x_v1legacy]

I live in Texas.. enough said?
April 3rd 2012 was crazy there were so many tornadoes no matter where you went. At work, on the way home and when you got there... you really could not escape them that day it was out of a nightmare. There were 22 tornadoes here that day.

Spoiler: Giant Hail

Spoiler: We have insane lightning storms here.. two different houses I lived in were hit by lightning blowing the TV's up at both, a third hit a neighbors house and shocked me and my dad.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_Hurricane_Ike_in_Texas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina
http://www.nbcdfw.com/weather/stories/Rockwall-County-Mom-Trapped-During-Tornado-146185465.html
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/10/us/tornadoes-sweep-dallas-region-killing-1-and-closing-a-hospital.html

To name a few...

 

[L. Declis]

In the U.K., it once rained a lot.

In Shanghai, it also rained.

Once the entire United Kingdom shut down because it snowed a bit for a while

That's pretty bad, right?

 

[Sleepy Sol]

Hurricane Katrina in 2005. My family was lucky to be far enough from the beach to not experience too much water damage, but power and water were out for weeks (plenty of people had it much worse than that) and our roof got some abuse.

Not something that's really fun to go through, obviously.

 

[Lil devils x_v1legacy]

Hurricane Katrina in 2005. My family was lucky to be far enough from the beach to not experience too much water damage, but power and water were out for weeks (plenty of people had it much worse than that) and our roof got some abuse.

Not something that's really fun to go through, obviously.

Hurricane Katrina was so devastating, and even worse was when Ike hit and the shelters were still full of Katrina victims and they had nowhere for Ike victims to go at all, and the food pantries were empty. So many of the resources were completely depleted from Katrina, there was nothing available at all to help Ike victims, at the time, they didn't even have blankets to hand out in some places, it was so bad. Many people had given to help Katrina and were wore out, they didn't respond at all to help with Ike, leaving many with no place to turn to at all, it was terrible.

 

[KyuubiNoKitsune-Hime]

About the worst I ever experienced was when we got 36 inches of snow in a single storm here in Reno in about 24 hours, shut the area down. 30 miles any direction didn't get hardly anything, the storm just stalled over Reno/Sparks and dumped as hard as it could. Then the snow got compacted into ice on all the roads and side walks and the ice stuck around until like late April.

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

The worst weather that I have to deal with will be happening in about a month or so here in Arizona.

Dust storms, and particularly these fuckers:

Spoiler

I drove through one last year and I had no choice about it. It was really scary because it was almost night out and haboobs make things go dark, so driving through one can be really sketchy. They're especially scary if a thunderstorm is coming immediately afterwards.

Haboobs, man.

 

[Scarim Coral]

The winter we had a couple of years ago (the one that lead up to the flooding in spring). The weather was way too freezing compared to what we normally hard! I was shivering for the most of what winter.

 

[Sleepy Sol]

Hurricane Katrina was so devastating, and even worse was when Ike hit and the shelters were still full of Katrina victims and they had nowhere for Ike victims to go at all, and the food pantries were empty. So many of the resources were completely depleted from Katrina, there was nothing available at all to help Ike victims, at the time, they didn't even have blankets to hand out in some places, it was so bad. Many people had given to help Katrina and were wore out, they didn't respond at all to help with Ike, leaving many with no place to turn to at all, it was terrible.

That just sounds horribly awful. I guess I'd count myself lucky my neck of the woods never had to really deal with Ike and just a few years off of the awfulness that was Katrina. Though it did affect some hospital work I was having done in Texas (Galveston) pretty negatively. Which I resent it for quite a bit.

 

[Evonisia]

There was a heat wave the other year in the UK. Given that I can't tolerate any temperatures above 10C without wanting to watch the world burn (perhaps ironically), it was pretty devastating.

...

What? North England is a pretty damn great place to live weather wise, overcast weather almost all year 'round, and I love it.

 

[Frankster]

London Summer. Why the fuck is it so damn hot and sunny, I thought uk was supposed to be wed and cold and miserable? Pah!

Otherwise I like the rain, snow, wind, darkness, fog, thunderstorms, etc, so what most people would consider bad weather would probably be to my tastes. It's the sun and heat I can't stand.

 

[Elfgore]

Ohio had a pretty shitty Winter in 2013-2014. Temperatures hitting -10, multiple cases of high snowfall, and so much more.[footnote]I know in other parts of the world this is nothing, but this royally screwed up Ohio. We're still suffering from salt shortages after this[/footnote] 'Twas hell on earth at the time.

 

[crimson5pheonix]

Hurricanes can be uncomfortable. One hurricane hit while I was living in a swamp. No electricity for 2 weeks. Minimum 80% humidity. Triple degree weather. Standing water makes for mosquitoes.

Hell.

 

[Ryotknife]

Tornadoes are the scariest things ive had to deal with, especially since i didnt have access to a bunker or basement or anything. I was in a motel room, and the TV told me to put a mattress over my head in the tub in case a tornado hit me.

Excellent advice....if the mattresses werent bolted into the bedframe. Rather big tornado was spotted a few miles away from the town. Air raid sirens going off and every doomsday movie that had those sounds was going through my head. Thankfully the tornado missed the town, although it did level an entire forest.

Up here in NY where i live, the extreme weather is more annoying than harrowing. The only thing that is dangerous is black ice which comes out of nowhere. I had to go through that nasty blizzard this year where we had 2-3 feet of snow a day for a week straight, spending HOURS shoveling everyday (and not the nice fluffy snow, the heavy backbreaking wet snow.)

 

[Kolby Jack]

Hot and humid. Because I don't like walking through soup. Seriously, it makes me itch. Give me 400ft of snow any day.

EDIT: curses, my snap response was TOO snappy! I should read the OP first next time. I've been through a few hurricanes and that's about it. One knocked out our power for a long time. That sucked.

 

[FPLOON]

Well, I'm so coastal that I have no idea what "snow" looks like... Then again, I live in southern California where the most common of climates could be found somewhere if you look "hard" enough...

With that said, I both love and loathe the rain because I can't pull off my "Singing in the Rain" routine without hoping some driver, who act like they've never driven in rainy climate before[footnote]Which, given how many times a year it does rain here in San Diego alone, it's not that surprising...[/footnote], doesn't swerve and cause an[other] accident and I end up being part (or parts) of it somehow... But damn, does it look awesome when I see it shower liquid water across the city... except when it causes "flash flooding"... That shit's not tight, yo...

 

[Godhead]

Superstorm Sandy wasn't too much fun.