In New Jersey (along with surrounding areas), we had the biggest storm I've ever seen. It caused some major poop. 5 (3 really, a few connected at the base) trees fell on my house, with 3 or so downed power lines, which crossed. I haven't gotten any sleep since I woke up on Saturday, because I had to be in the basement with buckets 24/7 to stop it from flooding. Over 500 gallons of water. I just got power back maybe an hour ago.
Anything similar ever happen to you?
I live in western Mass, all we get is cold, wind, and rain, no trees/power lines down as far as I can tell
We got the rain and wind, but around me it didn't cause much damage, neighboring schools closed for flooding though
Well, umm... It was windy last night and one of my chairs blew off the deck.
Yeah, not much happens storm-wise around here...
Been through a few hurricanes in my time in Virginia. The ones that did the most damage to the area were Floyd in '99 and Isabell in...not sure. But basically Floyd flooded our town but my house didn't get much damage but in Isabell a few trees fell in our yard (one knicked our garage) and the shear wind blew off parts of our roof.
Nope. Worst thing that's happened in Georgia ever since I've lived here is uh...
and...
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Nothing.
Quote from: Kingmush on March 15, 2010, 09:33:59 PM
Been through a few hurricanes in my time in Virginia. The ones that did the most damage to the area were Floyd in '99 and Isabell in...not sure. But basically Floyd flooded our town but my house didn't get much damage but in Isabell a few trees fell in our yard (one knicked our garage) and the shear wind blew off parts of our roof.
Oh that reminds me
When I was like 2 or 3 there was a regular old summer storm that wasn't that regular(at least not here)
I have a very vague memory of it too, I remember my mom panicking(great thing to see your parents do at that age) and doing something with the window, probably closing it...
but uhh, yeah that's all I remember of it but my mom told me that it was a tornado warning and all that and it was really windy, sky was green, really heavy rainfall and blew the entire roof off the neighbor's house.
Quote from: L10 on March 16, 2010, 02:34:32 PM
Oh that reminds me
When I was like 2 or 3 there was a regular old summer storm that wasn't that regular(at least not here)
I have a very vague memory of it too, I remember my mom panicking(great thing to see your parents do at that age) and doing something with the window, probably closing it...
but uhh, yeah that's all I remember of it but my mom told me that it was a tornado warning and all that and it was really windy, sky was green, really heavy rainfall and blew the entire roof off the neighbor's house.
Back in the 80s and 90s, people thought (incorrectly) that opening windows during a tornado would equalize pressure, keeping the house from exploding.
Well last year in late November, we had the worst ice storm on record in New Hampshire.
I was getting ready to watch TV, I hear a bunch of crashing sounds next door in my neighbors yard. 8 big trees were down in his yard and littered it completely.
All through that night I couldn't sleep because I kept hearing trees falling all over the place and worried that a tree would fall right through the ceiling into my room.
Waking up next morning, I turned on my short wave radio. 1.5 million people from northern Mass to northern New Hampshire had no power. The town I live in had 100+ trees down.
It was a mess.
Quote from: Big Brother on March 16, 2010, 02:37:30 PM
Back in the 80s and 90s, people thought (incorrectly) that opening windows during a tornado would equalize pressure, keeping the house from exploding.
my high school still had that in the emergency book, at least it did tell I pointed in out back in '01, don't know if they ever changed it
We had some terrible hurricane winds and rain last year.. we had some pouring rain and hail on Sunday, and in the summer we often get big thunderstorms at night.