Phenomena You Do Not Want To Experience Again

[Hybridstorm_November2001]

I hear a lot of talk about people being frightened of hurricanes after they've gone through a bad one posting here. As such I ask; what type of weather phenomena do you NOT WANT TO GO THROUGH AGAIN. For me the list is:

1. Hurricanes, especially intense ones (cat 3, or higher)

2. Hurricane force winds

3. Tornadoes

4. Ice storms

5. Intense lighting storms/hail storms


I can easily live without having to go through any of the above in my area, or in my travels, anytime soon.

[Cyclenall]

The things you just listed are some of the things I want to go through over and over again! Who doesn't want Intense Lightning and hail? I would love those storms to come to me. As long as the hail doesn't start doing major damage, I am alright. Tornadoes....well I don't want one near my house I would love to see one in person though. Ice storms I don't want though, that would knock out the power for too long. Hurricane, well lets just say I want to go through one that won't kill me.

I don't want to go through this ever again:

1. The winter overcast skys that last weeks on end (Dull!)
2. Major Flooding
3. Thunderstorms that don't take a direct hit on me
4. Cold, rainy Summer (eww)

[Meso]

Number 3 is evil... Looking on the radar at an intense storm 100km away,it's a very very sad thing.. especially here where thunderstorms happen once every 100 days or so

[ericinmia]

I hate even more when a sever thunderstorm misses me by 1 mile... and i can see the BLACK clouds, and lighting non stop in the distance... and on radar I can see the storm... but its just skimming my house

[BigO]

Levee breaches. I can do without those forever.

[TS Zack]

Droughts

[Frank P]

Living in a FEMA trailer for any period of time ....

[Ivanhater]

Living in a FEMA trailer for any period of time ....

Ya, Unfortunately they will be over there a while, we STILL have fema towns over here in Pensacola

[Tampa Bay Hurricane]

I do not want to go through the following:

1. Hurricane- Winds/Surge-- My house is 10 feet about sea level...
a Hurricane of any size = damage or devastation to my home

1. Tsunami- Deadly with almost no warning

2. Tornado- Frightening- occurs very quickly with little or no warning-
very frightening

3. Hail- Does a lot of damage

4. Lightning- On many occasions I have had close cars of being
struck even while inside my house when the lightning hits the trees
next door.

5. Sandstorm- Hard to breathe

6. Heat Wave- 115+ F is unbearable...Even 95 F+ is very hard to bear.

[Frank P]

Living in a FEMA trailer for any period of time ....

Ya, Unfortunately they will be over there a while, we STILL have fema towns over here in Pensacola

Ivanhater you are sooooo correct... for some it will be a very long time.... for me, at least 4-6 more months until my house is probably finished or its in a configuration that I can live in it...... if I'm that lucky.... for others it might be much much longer....

for the record I am building the first "new" home on the beach in Biloxi... more than 10 months after Katrina, the first new home is under construction.... I know of one other new home slated for the beach that has been approved by the planning commission, but they have not started yet... but willl soon...

I wonder if that will make my new home a "historical" home... being the first home rebuilt on the beach..... especially since all the historical homes in my neighborhood have been destroyed.... hmmmmm

[hial2]

Surprised that no one has mentioned earthquakes..I rather go thru a cat 5 cane that I can see coming for days than to be walking down a street that suddenly becomes a roller coaster..while dodging pieces of buildings
What a nightmare!!

MJS

[gatorcane]

how about a tsunami?

[mikey mike]

Droughts

Same here!!

[cycloneye]

1-2 Weeks without power and water after a hurricane landfall.

2-A drought.

[Matt-hurricanewatcher]

I will be truthful I don't went to go through.
1# A Tsunumi
2# Yellowstone or Toba super volcano's going off
3# A Astroid over a mile or more hitting earth
4# A 9.0 earth quake

[Aslkahuna]

The mega geological and astronomical events I can do without-as far as weather events are concerned, I despise Ice Storms and don't ever want to be near them.

Steve

[HurricaneHunter914]

The following are Natural Disasters that I want to go through:
-Hurricanes
-Severe Thunderstorms (Lightning, strong winds, and hail)
-A Snowstorm ( living in FL ya don't get much snow)
-Downbursts


The Following are Natural Disasters that I DON'T want to go through:
-Earthquakes
-Tsunamis
-Meteorites
-Volcanoes
-Tornadoes
-Droughts
-Wildfires
-Microbursts
-Floods

The Following are Natural Disasters that I want to watch from a distance:
-Tornadoes
-Volcanoes
-Floods

[Opal storm]

I hate hurricanes that make landfall at night.That's the scariest thing for me is going though one of those in the middle of the night.It's dark and you can't see a thing, you hear the wind howling outside,trees snapping and stuff hitting your house and your NOAA wx radio is going off every 5 minutes with tornado warnings.That's exactly what I went through with Ivan,probably the scariest night of my life.

[shaggy]

this one is easy. several years back we were outside under my parents carport during a avergae afternoon storm and it was a pretty good one when all of a sudden we all started to feel our hair stand up and we heard a charge building for just a second then lighting hit a few feet away.The 3-4 seconds before then hit we could tell something was off just to hear and feel the charge building is something i never want to see again!

[SeaBrz_FL]

Q: What type of weather phenomena do you NOT WANT TO GO THROUGH AGAIN?

1. back-to-back evacuations like Frances and Jeanne (2004)
2. seeing the pain of those that lost everything (FL 2004)
3. feeling the pain that the rest of country didn't understand (2004/mid-2005)
4. ANY trop cyclone that takes more than 2 days to pass (Frances)
5. losing a loved one during a major hurricane (Wilma 2005)
6. losing power for a month (David '79)
7. the screeching, howling winds and damage of Hurricane Donna ('60)
8. ice storms (Atlanta '97)
9. blizzards in New England ('96/'97)
10. any weather problem that makes me sleep on an airport floor again (several from '92-'02)