Phenomena You Do Not Want To Experience Again

[Robjohn53]

I agree with Opal storm i hate hurricanes that make landfall at night as well..We had the eyewall of three of them in 2004 hate not seeing whats coming. Most of all i hate Charley, Jean & Francis we got a piece of all of them...and i hate replacing my roof lol.......

[Andrew92]

What don't I want to experience ever again? Two things:

1. Being on the road in a severe thunderstorm in rural Nebraska with a big truck tailgating me (happened in '98, if a deer had come out in front of us, my sister, dad, and I would probably have been killed), and

2. A severe ice storm that crippled my home town three years ago, knocking out power to the whole city and freezing the dorms up.

-Andrew92

[Praxus]

Earthquakes... I experienced a full minute of a 6.9 in mexico, and I wouldn't want to do it again, that's for sure. Had to hold something to stay up...sounds of women screaming all over...intense.

[Grease Monkey]

Don't want list:
Earthquakes
Tsunamis
Volcanoes
Tornadoes
worldwide fires
plate tectonics
continental drift
solar flares
sun spots
magnetic storms
magnetic reversal of the poles
comets, astroids and meteors
worldwide floods
tidal waves
erosion
cosmic rays
recurring ice ages

[Coredesat]

Technically, the entire 2005 season was a phenomenon that I don't think anyone wants to experience again.

[Grease Monkey]

Technically, the entire 2005 season was a phenomenon that I don't think anyone wants to experience again.

Actually I'm not so sure about that. It looks like several people that posted didn't put hurricanes on their don't want list.

[WindRunner]

Technically, the entire 2005 season was a phenomenon that I don't think anyone wants to experience again.

Actually I'm not so sure about that. It looks like several people that posted didn't put hurricanes on their don't want list.

Like you?


And what's with plate tectonics being on your list? Continental drift? Solar flares? Sun spots? Erosion? These things are continuously happening, there isn't much you can do about not "wanting" them to happen.

[timNms]

Other than hurricanes, I would not want a repeat of March 20, 2005. While driving home from my niece's wedding, my family and I had a run-in with hail. South MS is no stranger to hail, but what began to fall on us was scary. We'd gotten about 3.5 miles from home when suddenly baseball sized hail began to fall. Thankfully, I was just passing by a house that had a nice, big tractor shed and I drove my car thru their lawn and parked under the shed to protect my windows. My son was scared stiff. My mom, who was 70, said she had never seen hail that big before. Guess it was a first for our area (at least a first in quite a few years).

By the way, my car still has the hail dings in it...looks like someone who had a bad case of acne as a teenager LOL.

[senorpepr]

I see a lot of people putting tsunamis and other very odd things on their list. I thought this was about what phenomena you don't want to experience again.

[gatorcane]

being on a 20ft fishing boat in Atlantic side of the Florida Keys at NIGHT when a severe thunderstorm suddenly develops and catches you off guard. It feels like needles are hitting you when you try to go anywhere and the seas can go from calm to like 4-6 ft in like 5 minutes. It's not fun let me tell you.

The situation is quite typical in the summer months where the east windflow is strong and thunderstorms can develop in this flow at ANY time.

[angelwing]

Ice storms, had enough of them in 93

[Hybridstorm_November2001]

I agree with Opal storm i hate hurricanes that make landfall at night as well..We had the eyewall of three of them in 2004 hate not seeing whats coming. Most of all i hate Charley, Jean & Francis we got a piece of all of them...and i hate replacing my roof lol.......

Funny you two should say that. It seem that every hurricane or TS I've ever been in, either at home or away, has peaked at night. And I agree with you; it is far more frightening at night when you can't clearly see what exactly is happening, but you sure as hell can hear and feel it.

[baygirl_1]

1. hurricanes (any category-- because even a CAT 1 can be scary and cause problems; they fascinate me but I could go the rest of my life without experiencing another one!)
2. severe thunderstorm in a small ski boat (NEVER AGAIN!)
3. flooding
4. hail storm while driving
5. ice storm (I'm a Southern girl and don't know from ice-- unless it's in my tea!)
Almost forgot! (How could I forget this one!)...
6. severe thunderstorm while canoeing (that was DH's stubborn idea)

[wxmann_91]

Easy. Being in Ontario during peak svr wx season for over two weeks, and not even hearing a clap of thunder or flash of lightning, seeing how your hometown in SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, which you were going back to had it not been for the border patrol, is progged to see some major storms on Tuesday with possible localized rainfall over 2 inches! (Also missing some good photography possibilities with that Sawtooth Fire.)

[Cookiely]

Being without A/c because of all the named disasters above.

[Recurve]

The return of disco.

[Regit]

The worst thing I've ever experienced was listening to a tornado coming. I wouldn't wish that on anyone. Luckily, it just missed where I was by a few hundred yards, but the sound of it is sickening.

[Jim Cantore]

AGAIN? I havent seen anything that bad yet.

The only natrual disasters that people would list and I've been through I enjoy

Blizzards, I love snow.

Lightning, I'm drawn to it

Hurricanes, never seen over 65mph

Tornadoes, never seen one

Hail, never seen over dime size

Wildfire, never seen one

Flood, only had them near me, never been flooded personally.

Earthquake, never experenced one

Volcano, are you kidding me?

Tsunami, I live 60 miles from the coast

Avalanche, highest mountain I ever seen was a 10 foot high pile of snow.

Ok, New Jerseys boring for someone who likes to see extreme weather, but I'll take it over 28 foot surge and 130mph winds anyday of the week, I cant imagine how it is in person, and the toll it must take.

[BatzVI]

I don't want to see another Hurricane Marilyn '95 here in the Virgin Islands. I went 3 months without power, 7 months without my phone, and 2-1/2 years without cable. In case some don't realize we use cisterns for our water, if you don't have power, you also lose your water. I had to go down the hill everyday and syphon water out of the cistern into jugs, then carry them uphill to the apartment just to be able to flush my toilet. Also, I hope we don't have anymore days of 3 earthquakes of more than 4.8 like we did a couple years ago. It's rather upsetting to be in bed and feel it shaking and not knowing what to do. I also don't want to spend another hurricane by myself. Went through Georges that way and was terrified all night due to the memory of Marilyn. I ended up spending the night in my bathtub. Luckily, I'm a small person. When I used to live in Florida, I went through one tornado in Okeechobee. I'd rather not do that again also.

[Downdraft]

I'll handle anything I have to but lightning the indiscriminate, random killer. Amazing after the last couple of years we still have people in here that want to be in a hurricane.