STORM2K

Weather wise I have seen major snow blizzards, like the one in Jan 1996 that shut down NYC. I have seen a dust devil in Arizona. Weak hurricanes. and heatwaves.

I've seen a major hurricane (Charley), four weaker hurricanes (Irene [99], Frances, Jeanne and Wilma), countless tropical storms, a 500 foot tall dust devil, minor flooding, a gust front, a derecho and a microburst, 6 confirmed funnel clouds, 4 of which I was lucky enough to film, hail, about 20 huge fires, a drought or two, a hard freeze or two (one coming later tonight) and I've been waaay too close to lightning waaay too many times.

My interest all started with a movie called "Twister", that I saw at age 4.

Twister was a great movie. I can watch it many times. Did you ever see A night of twisters with John Schneider?

I did, it was cool.

Hmmm, I've seen some awesome hail storms, 1 twister that went thru here a few years ago,(Philly never gets tornados) 7 ice storms in one year (1993), 33 inch blizzard (was awesome), some cool t-storms back in 92 in Florida, and of couse Hurricane Agnes, Hurricane Floyd, Hurricane Gloria, think Agnes was the worse for us. ALso seen a 9 alarm fire in downtown Philly (was around 82-83)

That's all I can think of right now.

By the time the severe weather t storms reach us here in the northeastern USA and because there is mountains and hilly terrain is the reason why we never see tornadoes. Once in a blue moon one does pop up but mostly never does.

I've been in too many hurricanes already, the center of Barry, some deep freezes, around too many tornadoes, a ton of thunderstorms, a gust front, a microburst, a sonic boom, Andrea's ashes, 13" of rain in 6 hours, and plenty of heatwaves.

In NY, I went through feet of snow, a few ice storms, a few good thunderstorms, Floyd, and one hail shower (one of 2 time I have seen hail)

I also went through Andrew when i was two, but of course I dont remember that.

Two major hurricanes (Frederic and Ivan), lots of brushes (Kat, Camille, Wilma while in Melbourne, FL, etc), lots of tropical storms, 1 tornado (took a picture outside my office window), 3 funnel clouds, one waterspout, nearly 40 inches of rain in 48 hours (Hurricane Danny), Alabama's lowest temperature ever (-27F, but I was only 3), and thundersnow during the 1993 "Storm of the Century". Someone from NY might roll their eyes at that, but I thought it was awesome!

AL Chili Pepper wrote:Two major hurricanes (Frederic and Ivan), lots of brushes (Kat, Camille, Wilma while in Melbourne, FL, etc), lots of tropical storms, 1 tornado (took a picture outside my office window), 3 funnel clouds, one waterspout, nearly 40 inches of rain in 48 hours (Hurricane Danny), Alabama's lowest temperature ever (-27F, but I was only 3), and thundersnow during the 1993 "Storm of the Century". Someone from NY might roll their eyes at that, but I thought it was awesome!

Ooooo I forgot about the thundersnow during that storm, that was the first time I ever heard it and I'm in PA-it was awesome!

I was 2 in the Blizzard of 78 up in Rhode Island. I remember it by pictures, but I lived in the city that got the most snow of all the cities, Woonsocket, RI... We got 54 inches in like a 24 hour period!

Boy, I saw a lot when I was young. I've seen just about every kind of cloud ever (ever ever (EVER EVER EVER)), my fair share of extraordinarily deep snow, 55 degree winters (that was the lowest low for the lowest temperature winter of those winters)... God, not much else. I've seen a hell of a lot of cool stuff though. Every see Nanga Parbat from a plane? No? How about K2? Really? Ever ridden on top of an elephant?

Boy, I've lived for someone so young.

Ive ridden an elephant and a camel.

I remember the Blizzard of 1978. There was a snowstorm that was like a hurricane. We even had thunder snow in that one.

I was driving on I-4 heading to tampa with the family and saw lighting...Now it was like it was all over in front of us maybe a half mile away...You now how it spider webs out but it looked like 50 of them at one time and it looked like they were in huge blue elctrical wall they were caught up in....

Anyone ever seen that?

Almost force field like....

Back in the late 70's....I was still hiding out in Alaska after a difficult military tour. Living in the town of Girdwood. I cannot remember the exact year. Spring snows brought us a heavy dump on Alyeska. Outstanding powder in the Chugach mountains. Avalanches closed the road back to Anchorage.....45 miles away. It was great. Locals had the mountain. I couldn't ski like my early years.....but still managed the south face. Best powder of my life. While sitting at sky ride we watched numerous avalanches continue to bury the road on Turnagain Arm. We had so much fun.....take me where it's steep and deep!

I have yet to see a tornado in person, but I have seen green lightning. I mean really green. It was almost alien.

Beam me up Scotty !

Haha, that's funny. You're a funny guy. Original too.

Maybe we are related? Beam and Seam?

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