Have you ever been... In a Tornado, Stuck by Lightning, etc?

Question

What happened?
How scary was it?
What did you do?
How did you survive?
Are you afraid for it to happened again?

Answer 1

I was in my basement during a tornado and it ripped off the floor right sbove where we were standing and we had to hold on to stuff so it wouldn't suck us up. It was pretty cool cause we could look straight up into the funnel and see all of the stuff in it. I am a little scared for it to happen again but I'm not too worried. If I die, at least I'll know I've done some pretty tight stuff in my lifetime!

Answer 2

Lightning struck twenty feet from me (a tree) while I was working on a dump truck once in VA. Color me lucky, lots of metal around -- a dump truck.

I did not wet my pants &c -- too frightened, YES, it was VERY frightening and impressive, enough to make me go inside the house as soon as I regained use of legs.

Now I am even wiser, not a teenager as then. I vacate all areas having metal, metal fences or where I am the tallest object during a lightning storm. Good to take off any metal items you are wearing too. Get off the bleachers.

In Colorado, every year some tourist is killed by lightning while taking shelter under a TREE in the mountains during a lightning and thunderstorn.

Sometimes people are struck but survive. Or someone is there to start them up with CPR.

Wherever the lightning exits your body to the ground is usually badly burned. Perhaps the heel area.

You should get out of water, out of pools during lightning. Water is an excellent pathway for electricity to ground. Many people can feel shock when lightning strikes a wet, grassy field they are standing on. You could be next, and a metal umbrella frame is an invitation.

If there is no shelter, take off all metal and hug the ground in the driest area, away from trees.

Florida has unbelievable lightning too. But Colorado has some dry lightning storms in the fall that will make a WWF wrestler turn pale and seek shelter.

Answer 3

I even have considered 4 tornadoes and 3 hurricanes in my existence. as quickly as I see one I do each little thing i'm able to to get out of it is way. i've got on no account had a house hit via one yet i became in an place of work development that had it is area ripped off via a cat 2 tornado. fortuitously the only human beings interior the development on the time have been the human beings in my place of work and it became on the different area remote from the tornado. no person became injured yet i think of quite some human beings peed their pants. LOL

Answer 4

I almost got struck by lightning in Florida before. I kno its going to happen again. Its just a matter of when its going to happen just knowing that Florida is the lightning capital

Answer 5

sorry never been there and i don't think would ever want to.

Answer 6

never been there