What's the worst storm you've ever been in?

Question

What kind of storm was it and why was it so bad? Did you survive it, or are you writing this answer from beyond the grave?

Answer 1

The Blizzard of 1978
Stuck in the house for a week, 20 foot snowdrifts, up to the roof.
No electricity.
I had to eat my own foot.... raw.

Also a buncha hurricanes

Answer 2

Supertyphoon Paka in Guam December 1997- it was so
strong it broke all the measuring guages on the island
and can't officially be the strongest typhoon ever.
It was pretty weird, we were visiting friends there and
they had 3/4 plywood that they screwed over all the windows
everytime there was a typhoon (which they get a few each
season) So we helped board everything up, tied things down
in the yard and made sure the cars weren't near any trees,
checked the generator and water supplies and then
settled down for the evening. We kept the door open for as
long as we could, it was totally black outside and things were
whizzing by too fast to identify, when something that looked like
a tree trunk blew by, we shut the door and reinforced it. The
power went out and we switched over to the generator, watched
movies on the dvd when the lights went out. The wind was so
strong it ripped the generator shed off its concrete footings even
tho it was bolted down with 6 inch bolts....and tipped the generator over, the guys actually went out and righted it, got it
back on line and inside without getting hit by debris. I was so
tired that I went to bed even tho it sounded like we were under
a freight train....I offered everyone ear plugs but the others were
too nervous to sleep. My husband and I moved the beds away from the outside walls closer to the inside walls and crashed.
When we got up in the am, the storm was gone, we went out to
examine the damage, the 3/4 inch plywood over our room window had been peeled away layer by layer, only about 1/4 inch was left, if the storm had kept on the island longer, it would have
blown out our window and then who knows??? We saw metal
roofs twisted off buildings, a canopy on a hotel turned into a
pretzel, a 4 unit apartment building totally imploded when the
roof went....but fortunately no one was badly hurt, they have a good shelter system there and most people took advantage of it.
We went out to check on some neighbors and on the car radio
right after the governor was saying for everyone to stay put , the
mall ad came on telling us that they had power and air
conditioning, so guess where we headed, man that food court
looked great! It was an outrageous experience.....

Answer 3

A tornado almost touched down quite close to where we lived, it was quite scary. We live on the top floor of a four-story apartment complex, so we wouldn't have had a chance. We didn't bother seeking shelter... My parents had the door open for some odd reason, and hail was flying in through the storm door, and hitting the side of the building. The sirens were blaring, the wind was strong, the hail was slamming... my sister's car suffered a few hail dents, could've been worse though. It was really scary, I was close to tears. And then, it just went away.

Everyone in the area was on edge, because in 1989 a tornado touched down here and caused massive damage. Luckily, that didn't happen again.

Answer 4

Wow all of those responses are midwest/eastern areas correct top right here indoors the Pacific Northwest, the worst hurricane could be very final year in November 2006 whilst we had pineapple expresses, one after yet yet another bringing extremely heavy rain. observed by using that, snow. not in at once forward words is it uncommon to have snow indoors the PNW, yet November is an extremely early month for it to ensue. some human beings had skill outages, yet what plagued me the main become that the winds and the mudslides tainted the city's water grant with brown airborne airborne dirt and airborne dirt and mud and airborne airborne dirt and airborne dirt and mud and airborne dirt and airborne dirt and mud. So for some week we had to stay with brown water to boil, bathe and brush in.

Answer 5

May, 1983, Mother's Day. Amarillo, TX

Since the lightning had been so spectacular driving in to Amarillo (it arced across the sky), we decided not to return to Canyon right away after church. Instead, we went to a friend's house and waited to see what would happen with the weather.

Watch turned to warning, which very quickly turned to the sounding of the tornado sirens. I heard one person say, "Go to Mark's!," and then I was standing in an empty house with my other friend from college. Everyone else followed their "plan" but had forgotten to clue us in on the "plan."

My college friend and I ran out into the rainy night, sirens blaring, to try to find a cellar to duck into. I had studied tornado weather as one of my classes, so I knew what it meant when the hail started to fall. We slipped and slided on newly planted lawns and were told by one neighbor that we could not go through her house to the cellar, bc we were too muddy; we were SO PANICKED!

Fortunately, the little sister of my Amarillo friend went back for the dog. We followed the little sis to her house for the dog, then tailed her to the gate that led to the "planned" cellar. She got away from us, but we made it to the metal door in the ground.

Safe underground with 21 other neighbors and their assorted pets, we listened as the storm roared over us.

Later we found out that more than 13 tornados had ripped through the area, including several on the expressway that leads back to the college.

I survived. I have been in other scary tornado weather, but this was the scariest. Other than that, I LOVE stormy weather and go out of my way to be in it, just to see the spectacular lightning...and I'd kind of like to go on one of those Oklahoma tornado-video-taping-trips.

Answer 6

Mild tornado's, bigtime icestorm, both scared the hell outta me for dif. reasons. Mild earthquakes...but by far the worst for sheer devastation in my region was the ice storm. Depending on what part of the globe you hail from, you will will either know exactly what I'm talking about or not.

Answer 7

First there was a huge, and I mean huge storm... rain, flooding, lighting, thunder, wind... very scary. Shortly after that there was a like level 1 tornado... it was sooooo cool! I was standing outside most of the time!

Answer 8

2002 I was in the military and we were out in the middle of nowhere when one of the meanest storms I have ever seen came up. You don't want to be on flat ground and it lightening & standing in 2 inches of water.....you are waiting for the one that hits the ground and you are all fried.

Answer 9

well it was a tropical storm the winds got up to 65mph i think and it had large hail and there was 3 or 4 tornado's

Answer 10

was in a tropical storm in Thailand in April. was staying in a log cabin on stilts that was swaying and creaking like crazy. the sea was going wild. it was exhilarating but scary