The hurricane in Houston a couple of years ago was pretty intense. First time I've been through one. Stayed outside watching all night. Next morning was what was so spooky. Looked and felt like the end of the world. The hurricane before that didn't actually come. But Houston was evacuated. It was a ghost town. Imagine a city with almost 6 million people...empty. But I stayed and went to a bar with a friend...waiting and watching as it approached. That was a trip.

I saw Twister on the big screen.

My state seems to get a little of everything...I've been through hurricanes, tornadoes, floods (albeit mild ones), hail, nor'easters, ice storms, and while it isn't weather related, a couple of small earthquakes (no major damage, just some foundation damage in places and a few cracks in the walls of homes).

Let's see, been through hurricanes, blizzards, never a tornado.

Worst blizzard: -30 degree wind chill, 70 mph winds - sustained, lightning, visibility so poor that I stepped outside during the whiteout and could not see my hand when I held it out, and 3 feet of snow in just 12 hours....and this on a Tuesday before Thanksgiving. On the satellite and radar maps, this nor'easter had such a tight rotation that it had a defined eye making it look just like a hurricane.

Worst storm: June 1982....it made national news. We received so much rain within a 72 hour period that the runoff on the road coming down the hill was knee deep. Cracks were found on the dam on the hill above my house....we lived near a lower dam....Those two held. On the other hand, a dam about 1 1/2 miles down the road burst....it fed into the same river, wiping out the four lower dams after the one I live by.....That's FIVE burst dams on one river. I saw houses wiped out, others a 1/2 mile from their foundations, trees driven through living room walls, 8 ft of mud inside an old piano factory....it was an absolute mess. It was declared a National Disaster.

Very scary, knowing my brother was on a camping trip that weekend, and my Dad had to drive through the storm to bring him home.

Ive been in a light drizzle when I went for a loaf and 2 bog rolls.

i could just imagine right from a movie i mean until you been there and saw it first hand you would not beleive it my brother was in mexico they told them a huricane was coming and was going starit for his hotal on the beach so later there was no hotal there most of it was gone and soooooo much damage thousands had to go to schools and sleep on the ground scary stuff cheers thanks

Well, Its the first time I saw this thread, so yes. I have been in bad weather. Katrina on my 37th B day. I didnt evacuate though. In midst of all the chaos, I found it very peaceful sitting there through it.

Of course, we all know the aftermath.

just a few hurricanes...

Seriously though, when I was about 6 years old, and my brother, who was 4 years old, were sat near our front room window watching a really fierce storm raging outside. Our house was only on a normal English street, but the water was rising pretty fast across the road and pavement (sidewalk).
As we watched, 2 large balls, about the size of grapefruit, came through the window, WITHOUT BREAKING THE GLASS! and floated, crackling and fizzing all the time, across the table where we were sat and settled on the carpet, not even burning it. There was a phosphorescent hue about them, very similar to a bubble thats blown by a child. My dad ran across the room and grabbed us both to the floor when suddenly both the balls just made a loud bang. The neighbour across the road had come over and was banging on the front door to make sure wew were all ok. He said he had watched these 2 balls float down the roof, stop outside the window and enter. I since learned some time ago that this phenomena was ball lightning, which some scientists dont believe exists, but I can assure you it does, first hand!
This episode was published in a science magazine many years ago by a prominent weather expert. I wish I had a copy!

I was in a typhoon in Korea, it was like walking through a wall of water! Coming back from there our plane was hit by lightning on approach to the airport - fun times waiting for it to be checked out after being awake for 36 hours!