(inspired by Bonnie & Charlie) What bad storms have you experienced?

[Kitty 34]

Two major blizzards here in Michigan....... '67 and '00

A horrible hail storm in Ft Collins. CO. BASEball size and larger!! One went thru a friend's camper top!

Two very bad ice storms (in MI), one that left us without heat and power for 4 days.....in January!!!

What storms or natural disasters have you been thru?

 

[missypie]

Tornado in Carbondale, IL, summer of 80. I was working at the mall when it went over. I was glad that I hadn't had my car there...everyone parked in the employee parking lot had some of JC Penney's roof through their windshields!


Also, major hailstorms and flash flooding, spring of 95 in the Dallas area. We had baseball sized hail at our house. The next weekend, a driver was killed in a flash flood a block from where I was.

 

[skuttle]

Hurricane Andrew. I was in 7th grade at the time, didn't really know or understand what was going on so I was really afraid. Our entire family (me, my mom, grandparents, uncle/aunt/cousin) stayed with my aunt/uncle/3 cousins. It was great to have other kids to play with, but I was really worried about my dog...we had to leave him at home. Everything worked out fine, thankfully. We didn't have power for a while...that was the worst part.

 

[LindaG4458]

Blizzard of 78 in MA. Lots and lots of snow. Cars buried on highways. Dukakis on TV in sweaters. After this every storm is forecast as "the worst since ....."

 

[Dax]

I went through Hurricane Gloria back in the 80's. I was onlya kid but it was pretty scary....Of course I also have been through numerous Nor'Easters also. I hoped that moving to Central FL would keep me mostly hurricane proof....Now I will be able to add Charlie to my list of storms

 

[merryg]

Hurricane Felix and Hurricane Bertha during the mid 1990's. Also, living in Bremerton, WA when the "worst snowstorm in 50 years" struck. I cannot comment if it really was the "worst", but being a native of South Carolina, it seemed pretty bad to me. LOL. My dad's beach property was totally wiped out during Hurricane Hugo in 1989.

Don't know if this counts or not, but I was living in the San Francisco area when the 7.1 earthquake hit. I think I would rather go through the hurricanes and snowstorms than the earthquakes.

 

[AStarOnMars]

I'm in California and only been involved with earthquakes ...

so when it rains here people get excited, which also brings people not knowing how to drive when water is falling from the sky

And when it thunders and lighting it's a phenomenon

... we have breaking new reports on getting over an inch of rain. hahaha

 

[orvilleair]

Tornado in 1974. I was only 6, but saw the twister in my back yard. It was moving away from the house, but I didn't know that. I was scared. Twister stayed on ground and hammered Xenia, the town to the east of home. Dad and I drove up there seeing if friends were ok and helping move piles of bricks. I'll never forget it.

 

[Annette_VA]

Hurricane Isabel, almost a year ago. What a pita that was! LOL

 

[jwsqrdplus2]

Mount Pinatubo's eruption in the Philippines in Jun 91, and Hurricane Opal in Oct 95 which hit 5 weeks after we had moved to Panama City FL.

 

[newholiday]

umm I seem to remember something happening the end of Nov 2002 - yup, I lived through it

 

[pjshaff]

We were in Andrew as well. If it hadn't have bobbled as it did, it would have hit much closer to where we lived at that time.

 

[Beauty]

The Ice Storm in 94. Power was out for 2 weeks in some places. It wasn't expected so people weren't prepared. It was awful! Poles falling everywhere, roofs caving in.

 

[monarchsfan16]

Just some blizzards. The one hurricane that was still a hurricane when it hit NH hit hard, but we had left town for the northern part of the state (we're about 45 mins inland in the southern part of the state) and we stayed with my grandparents. My dad was here at home without power for a week, but we had a generator so he was partying.
Mostly we just worry about blizzards, nor'easters, and the occasional ice storm.

 

[chichihoney]

hurricane isabel

 

[Virgo10]

Hurricane Carol, this year is the 50th anniversary. Very scary! I was only 6 at the time and can still remember the sound the trees made as they were falling over. It sounded like they were screaming.

The blizzard week in 1967. We had three blizzards in 5 days. There was so much snow my father had to crawl out a window in the back of the house because we couldn't open the front door.

The Blizzard of 78. Way too much snow and as LindaG said, all other storms are compared to it.

The April Fools day Blizzard, 1997. Yeah, just want you want, 28 inches of snow on the first of April.

The great hail storm of 1999. The first and only time I've seen hail the size of ping pong balls.

The President's Day Blizzard, 2003. We had a 10 foot drift on the back of our house.

Weather, ya gotta love it!

Roberta

 

[swea_pea1]

We were without water for three days and without power for 11 days after Hurricane Isabel. Worst thing I've ever lived through!

 

[100%Disney]

Hurricane Hugo hit the Charlotte area with 80+ winds. Also the ice storm in 2002 devastated all of NC.

 

[DIZNYFAN]

When I was younger we had a tornado come down our street it missed our house but the winds were strong enough to lift our roof and move it 6 inches to the left. On my honeymoon we were at Disney in 98 and there were tornados in Kissimee that traveled all the way to Daytona. It woke my wife out of a sound sleep mind you I heard nothing at all. I can also remember many a bad snow storm where we would get about 3 to 4 feet of snow in a 24 hour period lots of missed school back then I miss the winters we had back in the late 70's and early 80's when we actually had a decent amount of snow fall.

 

[Kitty 34]

Wow! A lot of hurricanes here!!!


Thanks for the pics, Roberta. I always regret not taking pics of the hail storm in Colorado!!!