I never made it to work Wednesday; the area where I work was the heart of the NYC subway flood mess! Got stranded in midtown Manhattan for hours, got a nice sunburn for my trouble!
What was your worst experience?
2007-08-10 08:38:38 · 36 answers · asked by Icewomanblockstheshot 6 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
I WAS STRANDED IN A CENTRAL AMERICAN COUNTRY FOR 2 DAYS!!!!!!!! I WAS ON MY WAY TO MIAMI WHEN A STUPID HURRICANE DECIDED TO DESTROY EVERYTHING!!!! IT WAS KIND OF FUN/SCARY BECAUSE THEY WERE A LOT OF PEOPLE TRYING TO GET MONEY FROM US!
2007-08-10 08:41:46 · answer #1 · answered by andrespb22 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Haha! well, firstly, i'd like to give sympathy for your awful experience. =] that must have been terrible. =]
So anywhos, yes i have been "stranded" due to bad weather. It was just last month after tennis lessons. As I left for the courts, i could tell that is was about to rain. VERY hard. I had to leave early since my coach warned me that it will be pouring soon. Darn right he was. Just as I was walking the 1/2 mile home, it began to rain LIKE MAD. In fact, the rain actually felt as though needles were hitting me. OUCH. >.> So when i got home, I looked as though i had just cameout of a cold bath with my cloths still on. worse of all, i was wearing a white shirt and silver b-ball shorts. (quite a few cars slowed to give me strange looks.....)
2007-08-10 08:49:01 · answer #2 · answered by Sariel V 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, just last night my electricity went out at 7:30pm. I live alone and I'm in a wheelchair. I live in South Carolina and it was 105 yesterday. I called my electric company and reported the outage. At 11:00 pm it was 89 degrees in my home and very dark except for my candles. At midnight it was 91 degrees and I had a washrag to wipe the sweat off of my face, very uncomfortable. The electricity came on at 12:45 am. Let me tell you, it was wonderful to go to bed with the air conditioning blowing its cold air!!
2007-08-10 08:44:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was in Malawi Africa about 5 years ago. I walked about 2km to town in the morning when it was sunny. By the afternoon it was pouring rain and the mini bus that I got a ride on broke down so I had to walk the last k back. I was absolutely saturated from head to toe when i got home. There were other occasions that year when similar things happen. Africa is like that and you just accept it as part of the challenge.
2007-08-10 08:46:56 · answer #4 · answered by aussie_mjp 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was stranded overnight in Chicago last year because of a snow storm.... Spent the night in a motel with a stranger....
You can meet some nice people that way! lol
2007-08-10 08:42:26 · answer #5 · answered by ♥♥The Queen Has Spoken♥♥ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A river runs within walking distance of my backyard in 1998 it flooded terribly. they closed the only bridge to town and we were stranded there. after 2 days we decided we had to get out of there so we drove about 60 miles in the oppisite direction. luckly no water got into the house
2007-08-10 09:06:51 · answer #6 · answered by Toria 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
like the others here got stranded in winter at home. after digging out was unable to go anywhere for 3 days. we lucked out though and survived. like another answer stated it was no fun but we didn't have children to worry about.
2007-08-10 08:45:35 · answer #7 · answered by Marvin R 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We get stranded every time it snows! Im from the south and no one can drive on ice. 1 inch and this city shuts down!
2007-08-10 08:41:55 · answer #8 · answered by sierraskyesmom 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When a teen along with my father we were in a car accident on the high way. And had to be rescued do to bad weather.
2007-08-10 08:45:10 · answer #9 · answered by Sunset 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wweeelllllll....
How about being stuck up north 'in the bush'? I live in Canada and got stuck "way out in the sticks" during a snow storm; a whole bunch of us( -and with no 'smokes'!) No way in and no way out!! Too much snow!!!
And then there was the time my friend and I were 'hitch-hiking' from Toronto to Niagara Falls -normally 11/2 hour drive, but took us 10 hours! (Not due to weather....)
And THEN -another time we were 'hitch-hiking'; this time from Huntsville to Ottawa. This is normally about a 6 hour drive, but not even close for us -we're talking about 48hours! In the middle of December! In the middle of Algonquin Park!!! In the middle of a "freezing rain" storm!!! Bbbrrrrrrr!!!!! Ssscaarrrrryyyyy!!!!! (Algonquin Park is a 'Nature Reserve'! And let me tell you Canada has a LOT of "Nature"...)
AND THEN -'hitch-hiking' AGAIN, this time we were going 'cross-country'; what would normally be a 3 day drive took us 10 days!!! 3 of those days saw us stuck in a town called "Wa-Wa"!!! 3 DAYS! On the same 'side of the road'!!!!! And this during the 'worst' time of year for bugs! During a year that "broke records" for it's "number of mosquitos"! At least this time we only got "sun-burned" and "eaten alive", as opposed to the "frost-bite" we got before...!!!(And again, NOT "weather" related; but "nature related" is kinda close(?).
Oh yeah, and there was this time in 1977, the "White Death".........blizzard.........bad........!!!
2007-08-10 09:09:11 · answer #10 · answered by Sanity Assassin 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I had the same problme as you did on Weds. It took me three hours to get to work when it should have only taken me 45 minutes. It was a mess. I finally got to work after flagging down a taxi in Times Square.
2007-08-10 08:44:47 · answer #11 · answered by trp2007 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋