Your favorite storm...

[GoddessOfGuinness]

I love lightning. It scares the hell outta me, but I love it anyway.

[Chuckup]

1. The calm before the storm N/T

[short bus president]

5. definitely

right before the wind picks up, when it's just kinda too dark and ominous-looking.

[disgruntella]

2. i love hailstorms!

I know they can be awfully destructive, but I do love them.

Little frozen nuggets coming down from the sky! Making a lot of noise and leaving behind a bunch of white dots... sigh

[GoddessOfGuinness]

8. I was driving along I66 in Northern VA when a hailstorm hit...

I was in a rental car, and it was marble-sized hail, and I was sure the car was going to get all dinged up, and that my insurance premiums would skyrocket.

Cars (mostly SUVs) were trying to drive through the stuff, slipping and sliding over the ice. I watched 2 fender-benders occur close to where I'd pulled over. I looked at my friend in the passenger's seat and said, "Well...It's been nice knowing you."

[newyawker99]

26. Congrats disgruntella!! 100 posts

A :toast: for your first milestone!! :-)

[JitterbugPerfume]

3. I love a good thunder storm

but when lightning struck the transformer across the road a couple of weeks ago,and lightning was dancing all over my livingroom, and I was here alone and the lightning even knocked out my phone


I WAS SKEERED !!!!!

[Aristus]

4. The lightening storm that raged the first time I listened to

Concrete Blonde's album "Bloodletting". Best 'first listen' experience I've ever had. The stormy background was perfect!

[slackmaster]

6. BRAIN storm

Must have BRAIN!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

9. Ahhh...A rare natural occurrence

And so refreshing!

[Birthmark]

7. Hurricanes

Can't beat a hurricane for excitement. Among hurricanes, Gilbert was my favorite. Unbelievably, awesome piece of weather.

[Skip Intro]

32. Had a few here - used to like them

until I realized all the poor woodland creatures, not to mention the homeless cats, dogs, etc., were getting wiped out by them...

Hugo hit us here, and we've had several "skirt" the coastline - enought to cause evacs and put the power out...

I did love the excitement, you knew it could be coming days in advance, and how everyone just stopped running on their all-important hampster wheels and hunkered down, many finding it a great time to party (hurricane parties, you know). But now I think about all the animals without shelter and it just isn't the same. DAMN!

[tridim]

10. Tornados!

They're the only thing I miss about living in Kansas. I liked to chase them until one night when I was nearly killed by a twister. Then again, thunderstorms are fun too, as long as they don't take out the power. I hate hail because it totalled my first car and seriously damaged my second.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

11. I have tornado dreams...

The tornado always rips up my back as I dig my fingers into the floorboards to keep from being blown away...

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

14. Guess you never had your house blown away then

...I have... you can keep Tornadoes, and Kansas, thank you.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

18. Wow!

When was your house blown away?

We had a tornado pass within a mile of here a few years ago. It killed 3 people. That's as close as I'd ever want to come to one.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

21. July 14, 1963... I will not soon forget that day

We survived, but a person up the block from us was killed. It is indescibible.
Twister... the first few minutes is sort of close, but the sound is WAY louder.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

30. Glad you survived!

:-)

[Lady Freedom]

31. I;m planing to chase them ...

after my video training is over. I hope to get on a NWS tean so they can get better video to study.

[geniph]

12. I dunno, I live in western Washington

we rarely get the drama queen storms around here. *pout* Occasionally a big windstorm, but no really dramatic weather. Usually that's a GOOD thing, though.

The last really dramatic storm we had was the day Clinton was inaugurated the first time - horrible windstorm. We lost power for five days.

[TrogL]

13. Blizzard

Unless I'm trying to drive.

[meow2u3]

29. The Blizzard of '78!

I was in New York during that storm, and I didn't have to go to school for one full week!!!!

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

15. I like squall lines at sea

One minute bright sunshine, the next, pitch darkness, huge seas, rain and winds like you would not believe.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

16. Sounds amazing!

I may have to buy bingo100's boat!

[geniph]

19. The sea is one place you CAN see the wind

it shows as a line of darkness (or sometimes a line of reflection), but you can see the wind clearly on the water. You'd better, anyway.

[HawkerHurricane]

17. Snowstorm at sea

Much as I hate snow, the quiet of the snowstorm, the little white flakes...
(Of course, wearing infrared goggles for hours on end, because the visiblility was under 500 yards was a bummer...)

[Rowdyboy]

20. Favorite storm? Hurricane Camielle...

I was 15 (1969), 120 miles from the Gulf Coast, living with my mom and 4 younger siblings in a small, wood-frame house. By dark, the wind was up to 85 mph. My uncle came 15 miles from the country to rescue us (my dad was a long haul trucker). Drove over downed limbs and phone lines to get back to his house where we spent the night. Winds hit 125 before dying down. The next morning my 16 year old cousin and I rode around in his dune buggy looking at damage.

That's my "favorite storm"

[trof]

27. I remember Camille.

My guard unit was doing our 2 weeks summer camp at Gulfport. We evacuated all the aircraft back to Birmingham a couple of days before she hit.

A couple of days after Camille blew out, our general wanted to go inspect the base, see how much damage had been done. "His" aircraft was a C-54 freighter, fitted out for passengers. A bunch of us were just hanging around anyway, so we got permission to go. We also had several national news journalists and photographers with us.

We made several low passes up and down the beach. The only thing left of the motels was their swimming pools, most full of sand. One of the photographers compared the devastation to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He had been one of the first group to photograph that site.

[aquaman]

22. I actually buy the "thunderstorm" cds

They are quite relaxing. And hey, thanks to GWB and his quest to increase global warming, thunderstorms are likely to become more frequent.

[DemoTex]

23. None, really.

I hate to hold and sweat fuel.

[rppper]

24. hurricanes

i have a nearly deadly obsession with the storms of the sea. during hurricane floyd i stayed at the beachside hotel i worked at just to take pictures of the beach from the 10th story. a few weeks later, one rolled across the peninsula and out to the atlantic...same result.

in my navy years, i got to witness firsthand the destruction of hurricane hugo. i had just been assigned to a sub in charleston SC, which was at sea at the time, and was assigned to help tie down any ship unable to sortie oout to avoid the storm. my wife and son were shipped upstate with other wives and i, along with several others, were put into a 3 story barraks building that was undergoing renovation. we last the roof 5 hours into the storm and watched it blow away to the SE gate of the base. we went outside and watched the eye wall..awesome sight.

i was sortied out and into several storms off the coasts of virginia and florida as well, always volunteering to ride up in the exposed sail of the submarines i was attatched to. you sit some 25 feet above the waterline in the submarines sail. the radar mast about 10 to 15 feet above you, and the periscopes about another 20 or so....when we were at the vally of some of the waves during one virginia storm in 94, the tops of the waves were some 20 feet over the masts...aka-a good 40 to 45 foot swell...

most would just splash you good, some would get you with very heavy, white foamy wash...sometimes you would take several seconds of "green water", as we called it, rolling over you....that means going through the top portion of the wave and actually being submerged for several seconds. we were solidly strapped into the boat, but you could feel the water trying to tug you out of the boat.

the worst storms, far and away, that i ever witnessed, were the storms that lashed the coast of england in the early part of 1990. not a hurricane by definition, just a solid gusty storm whipping the waves to heights of nearly 50 ft. we took 20 to 30 gegree rolls on a 10k ton, 430ft long sub...i was in awe..it was my 1st experience with nature in this form, and i grew up on the texas gulf coast.

one sub i was on was ordered to sit under hurricane andrew when it ravaged the miami area. i can't tell you how deep we were at the time, but believe me, it was deep enough that we should not have been taking the 15 to 20 degree rolls we were taking submerged.

[sandnsea]

25. Glitter storms

Got your attention????

They aren't really storms, but I've only seen it on the hiline in Montana. The snow or ice can get very dry and when a light wind picks it up and the sun hits it just right, it glitters. I swear!!! Amazing.

[Art_from_Ark]

28. A typhoon just passed through my city a few hours ago

No. 10, by the Japanese system. Some people are calling it the perfect storm, because there was not a single part of this 1500-mile-long country that was not affected by it. Some areas, like souther Shikoku Island, were hit particularly hard, and a few people have been killed or gone missing, and more than 200 injuries have been reported.

Fortunately, we just received the tail end of the typhoon here-- occasional heavy rain with occasional strong winds. The air was fresh as the clouds were making a mad dash across the sky. In the morning the sky will be crystal clear, and it should be possible to get a good view of Mt. Fuji 100 miles away.

[catzies]

34. That sounds beautiful! The paradox of storms.

They can cause great damage but bring beauty.

[Art_from_Ark]

35. Beautiful indeed

I had never seen clouds move so fast across the sky. And today, there are a few puffy white clouds floating lazily along, and the looming figure of Mt. Fuji was indeed visible from the upland areas, standing out like a mighty giant on the horizon.

[SyracuseDemocrat]

33. Snowstorms

If only for the aftermath. I can play outside in the snow with my dog. :P