What Is The Most Severe Weather That You Have Experienced?

[EpicEnergy 23,176]

I think that the most severe weather I've experienced was a straight-line wind that knocked down around five large trees in our yard alone. I had to take shelter in my basement because it was so bad.

[Tom Gallagher 33,581]

We occasionally get some pretty bad storms. 

[DubWolf 17,247]

As far as damage goes, back in 2005. Winds were really bad, we got hailed and it busted one pane of each of the windows of that side (for the remaining 16 out of 19 years I was at that house....)

If we're talking effect on daily life, that would've been that snowstorm that hit us last year. Power outages, infrastructure crippled, etc.

[ExplosionMare 18,062]

Had a bad ice storm two years ago that made the roads near impossible to drive on, which caused many workplaces and schools to shut down for a couple days.

[Early Sunsets 2,106]

We had a derecho roll through a while ago (2012? 2013? I can't remember). It snapped trees like they were twigs and knocked out power for weeks, even a month for some areas. It also happened to be the hottest time of the year. Luckily someone on our street had some friends in the power company, and they got our power restored in a week.

[Envy 6,144]

Bizarrely enough, it was actually an ice storm. Way back in December of 2007, in the weekend leading up to my finals at college. lol. It wasn't supposed to be that bad, but then the temperature dropped below freezing an entire day before projected and heavy thunderstorms of freezing rain came through. The power went out for days (weeks in some areas) and trees were majorly damaged. Our yards were full of branches. One of our trees (a small tree, thankfully) split in half and fell on one of our cars.

In second place was a thunderstorm back in 2016. It's possible it had a small tornado with it, we don't know. The poor tree that split in half back in 2007 was crushed by a tree up in our neighbor's yard which...landed on the car in the same place in our driveway. -_- No damage to the car. But the tree was done for. We also did lose power, but for a day instead of several. The problem was, was that this was in July and it was scorching hot outside. I worked nights back then, and I had to try to sleep during the day with no AC. It was awful.

[IronM17 5,348]

There are two severe weather I experienced which I would say were the most heavy one.

The first was a tornado in my home village in July 2000. Albeit I only experienced the thunderstorm around the tornado and not the tornado self, it was one of the most heaviest weather experience in my life. The heavy storm, the heavy rain, the big hail and the number of lightnings where crazy. 

The second one was in summer 2019 where I experienced 40°C for the first time. I am not a person for extreme heat and this was to much for me. To bad that such temperatures in summer could be more often in the future. 

[Denim&Venöm 18,731]

June 21st, 2010. 

An EF-2 Tornado tore through my home town. My dad, my brother and I were sitting out on the porch watching the wild weather unfold. So much rain and so much lightning. Never seen it get that bad and living in Wisconsin, you get your fair share of severe storms. We've even had close calls of our siren going off and we'd rush to the basement. Even at school we'd huddle in the bathrooms until things calmed down. The siren wasn't going off so we thought it must not be that bad of a storm. Until it got particularly windy and decided, yeah we should listen to our mom shouting at us to get back inside. 

That was probably the tornado passing behind our house. The siren never went off. The aftermath was two days of no power, one of our trees being torn in half, a path of homes wrecked in the new residential area, one of them our fire chiefs and our old world historical site getting trashed. We were outside! It could've been us! A few blocks off and that thing would've torn through the heart of town. 

 

 

[DubWolf 17,247]

5 hours ago, Envy said:

Bizarrely enough, it was actually an ice storm. Way back in December of 2007, in the weekend leading up to my finals at college. lol. It wasn't supposed to be that bad, but then the temperature dropped below freezing an entire day before projected and heavy thunderstorms of freezing rain came through. The power went out for days (weeks in some areas) and trees were majorly damaged. Our yards were full of branches. One of our trees (a small tree, thankfully) split in half and fell on one of our cars.

You were probably crying ice cubes of joy  .

 

(Jk)

[Envy 6,144]

7 minutes ago, WWolf said:

You were probably crying ice cubes of joy  .

 

(Jk)

Oh, but that storm cancelled a number of my finals, including my College Algebra final which me having taken it could have easily dropped me to a D, but instead I made a B. =D So I don't look back on the storm too badly.

[Megas 27,568]

The most we get is hail and heavy rain. The worst it ever got was around 2007-2008 when it rained heavily non-stop for months, to the point of regular flooding

[The Recherche 29,967]

God, I still remember the summer of 2014 on the East Coast. All-but nonstop rain. Many times the thunderstorms that happened were absolutely merciless as well. I don't recall the exact date, but I remember one specific day when the thunderstorm was so bad that the power went out, and the thunder sounded like bloody artillery. Had I not seen outside, I would have thought our neighborhood was under attack.

[Reality Check 631]

I remember having a signal 10 typhoon a few years ago. It was severe enough that traffic was halted for a lot of people, including public transportation. I even remember that the subway station and near my home was packed with people because of this

[Northern Star 1,024]

During a somewhat normal Northern Plaims storm, we were in the basement, mostly because we figured we should probably have some food and water down there when our phones, radios, TV, went off saying "radar indicated rotation or tornado x miles west of x" and that would be our farm exactly. Less than 5 minutes later storm chasers reported, and a few subsequently got run over by, a tornado east of us, they estimated F2-F4 if I recall correctly, but since it was open prairie and didn't hurt anyone but a storm chaser, they couldn't really classify it.

So long story short, the new state owned radar that the national weather service called unnecessary worked beautifully(never was detected by theirs either), and if the storm was moving a bit slower it would have been game over for us and our farm.

[They call me Loyalty 1,948]

It was 1973, and the tripulation of the wetting otter was bracing for what was gonna be one of the greatest storms north from mar del plata... No, not really. I don't have a vessel.

I think it was some moderate hailstorm, enough to cause some minor structural damage here and there. Two garden gnomes lost their lives in this event.

[Steve Piranha 29,419]

Hurricane Irma, back in 2017. The water came through the ceiling even 

[SparklingSquirrels 21,332]

Back in my hometown, a storm that knocked over a giant tree in our backyard. I was a child at the time and loved climbing around that fallen tree for fun  so I was sad when my parents eventually had it removed.

[Retro*Derpy 3,182]

About 8 years ago when I left high school there was a black wall cloud behind the school. They delayed the buses but I got picked up by my mother, went home and headed to the basement. Could see the funnel cloud on the highway as well as outdoor furniture in the air. The whole house shook really hard for about half an hour, and there was wind damage on the side and roof.

[Cirrus. 1,089]

Pretty much just bad windy/ominous thunderstorms.

A couple years ago a transformer exploded TWICE across the street in a neighbors yard.

It was weird because there was a loud eerie 60hz buzz/hum emanating from what seemed like everywhere in between the explosions. I think it's from all the wiring in the lines/houses resonating. I was out on my covered front porch when it was happening. I've heard the buzz/hum noise in my house before sometimes when the power's gone out in the past.

Edited April 7, 2022 by Cirrus.

[Savy 5,075]

Pretty much just the really severe thunderstorms with an occasional tornado.

Live too far from the coast for any kind of hurricane.

 

Oh yeah... and that really bad snow storm that hit Texas last year....

[Dreambiscuit 9,626]

The 2009 ice storm across the Midwest, centered on Arkansas (where I was exiled at the time). We were 9 days without power; not a lot of fun. The roads were terrible and the lack of utilities at such a time is horrible.

The other bad one was an F1 tornado that went through our neighborhood (same location) and wiped out most of our neighbor’s large oak trees, took out a metal cattle corral across the street, destroyed the power lines and flung a transformer hundreds of feet down the road. Fortunately for us we only lost a piece of metal siding from the house and I had a small tree wedged under my car outside. It was scary though.