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beneficii Lakitu Level: 36 Posts: 223/567 EXP: 299656 For next: 8454 Since: 06-27-04 From: Cordova, TN, USA Since last post: 14 hours Last activity: 6 hours |
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| This is the storm that hit my city nearly two years ago, causing massive power outages and damage. I remember the storm waking me up when my fan went off and I heard a lot of noise outside. Looking outside, I saw a green sky with the trees (even the big ones!) leaning over like crazy, just bouncing back and forth violently. I saw some trash cans and other objects go bouncing around (it was trash day then). The winds stayed like this for about 20 minutes before finally calming down. It was wild; my house's power didn't come back on for a day and a half and some people went 2 weeks without power. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis_Summer_Storm_of_2003 Y'all Have Memorable Weather Events? Also, it's my one-year anniversary of being an Acmlmer! One year ago, today, I signed up at board.acmlm.org!  EDIT: Uh...? (edited by beneficii on 06-27-05 07:03 PM) |
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Vyper Bit Level: 26  Posts: 105/256 EXP: 100094 For next: 2181 Since: 03-15-04 From: Final Fantasy Fire Since last post: 8 days Last activity: 7 days |
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| Yup. In 1998, over the summer, we had straight line winds over 100 MPH (dunno what that is in KM, and I don't have a converter handy...) They tore a bunch of trees over, blew shingles off the houses, threw my trampoline a block down the road into a church, stuff like that  |
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NSNick Laidback Admin Level: 85  Posts: 2649/3875 EXP: 5895841 For next: 2699 Since: 03-15-04 From: North Side School: OSU Since last post: 9 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| Cleveland averages 50+ inches of snow in the winter, and regularly gets above 90 deg F in the summer. It's also really humid. I can't actually recall any horrible weather memories, though this past winter left us with a shitload of snow. Fun Fact: Cleveland is windier than Chicago. |
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neotransotaku Baby Mario 戻れたら、 誰も気が付く Level: 87 Posts: 3380/4016 EXP: 6220548 For next: 172226 Since: 03-15-04 From: Outside of Time/Space Since last post: 11 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| I remember it snowed in San Jose, CA in 1997...the amount of snow was just a trace but it was cool | |||
Dei* Nipper Plant Level: 26  Posts: 136/412 EXP: 97995 For next: 4280 Since: 06-18-05 From: USA, Florida Since last post: 2 days Last activity: 1 day |
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Originally posted by NSNick Maybe 'cause there's more skyscrapers in Chicago? ;D |
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HyperLamer <||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 5321/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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I used to live in the country, whoo did we ever get some big storms out there. Got hit by the edge of a hurricane and had no electricity for a week.  Then there was the time lightning hit the driveway.  |
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Valcion YOU WA SHOCK Level: 50  Posts: 924/1139 EXP: 939607 For next: 7710 Since: 03-15-04 From: internets. Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| Recently when we got like 20 snowstorms in a row. But in the past, there was a really bad thunderstorm that whacked out the power. We didn't have any flashlights or candles around... so we used my game gear as a light source. |
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paraplayer Snifit Level: 22  Posts: 147/280 EXP: 57271 For next: 1079 Since: 06-06-05 Since last post: 44 days Last activity: 44 days |
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| There was a snowstorm on harvest moon today... Really though before i moved to Vancouver where all it does is rain during the winter i used to live more up north in a town called "Revelstoke" Every winter the snow would reach up to the roof. I'd always climb up top and jump into the snow then hurt my leg, cry and go get some hot chocolate. Good times. |
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LizardKing ..of The Carnival Creation  Armet 87/94 Level: 38  Posts: 505/596 EXP: 355646 For next: 14801 Since: 03-15-04 From: Norway Since last post: 4 days Last activity: 13 hours |
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| My most memorable weather event would have to be when some saturday in October, 1996, Northern Norway was struck by a storm with the name of Frode. Actually... that was what sparked my interest for pretty much all things weather and meteorology. It took down the biggest tree in our garden, which also took our phone line with it, and damaged another tree, so we had to saw it down, anyway. We also lost our power during the day, but got it back before evening, just in time to watch the news. Of course, it did more destruction in other places. It actually destroyed half of a Viking museum (a house built just like the old Viking's did it), and the waves smashed the fronts of several houses that were facing the sea, in the small fishing village of Henningsv |
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beneficii Lakitu Level: 36 Posts: 227/567 EXP: 299656 For next: 8454 Since: 06-27-04 From: Cordova, TN, USA Since last post: 14 hours Last activity: 6 hours |
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| BTW, here's the radar of the destructive derecho that hit Memphis on June 22, 2003 (the one I told you about on the first post of the thread): http://www.srh.noaa.gov/meg/radarLoop.htm In the early to mid-90's I lived in Northern Virginia and while there I remember we had the Superstorm of 1993 and the Blizzard of '96. They both dumped a lot of snow on us!  Check this out too: http://www.spectacle.org/0903/prosterman.html (edited by beneficii on 06-28-05 12:59 PM) (edited by beneficii on 06-28-05 01:00 PM) |
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Ran-chan Moldorm eek, when are they going to stop growing... Level: 143  Posts: 10247/12781 EXP: 35293588 For next: 538220 Since: 03-15-04 From: Nerima District, Tokyo - Japan Since last post: 12 hours Last activity: 12 hours |
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| I remember the hurricane that wrecked havoc around here. You should | |||
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Colleen Administrator Level: 136 Posts: 8979/11302 EXP: 29369328 For next: 727587 Since: 03-15-04 From: LaSalle, Quebec, Canada Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Ice_Storm I think that's all that needs to be said. Going from place to place which had electricity and being bored out of your skull/going to bed early every night/dressing in warm clothing all the time indoors = NOT FUN. |
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Valcion YOU WA SHOCK Level: 50 Posts: 930/1139 EXP: 939607 For next: 7710 Since: 03-15-04 From: internets. Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| Rhode Island also had a massive blizzard almost 30 years ago... but i wasn't around for that =p | |||
Bella Ludwig Von Koopa You're Gonna Love Me Level: 76  Posts: 1469/2962 EXP: 3891483 For next: 114577 Since: 03-29-04 From: Groovy Way Since last post: 8 min. Last activity: 6 min. |
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We haven't really had a lot of bad weather here in this part of California. We've had lots of rain and gusts of wind that knocked down trees and powerlines..once I remember I didn't go to school because it was sooooo windy and the tree fell on a part of the school  and then there were floods. That was so long ago..like..3rd or 4h grade.. |
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Kasumi-Astra Administrator Level: 62  Posts: 1622/1867 EXP: 1971846 For next: 12840 Since: 03-15-04 From: Reading, UK Uni: Sheffield, UK Since last post: 1 day Last activity: 12 hours |
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| Back in the eighties, a tropical storm hit the UK. Instead of floating towards the east coast of the US, it drifted east towards the UK. It swept into southern England, pulled down trees, destoryed houses and caused widespread disuption. Despite the fact that the winds were hurricane force locally, the storm was not a hurricane. However, most of the population persists in calling it a hurricane. If it was a hurricane, there would be nothing standing all over the south of England. I do remember it, though. My mum was picking up my friend from playgroup, and I remember it was about only about three O'Clock yet the sky was pitch black. |
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NSNick Laidback Admin Level: 85 Posts: 2695/3875 EXP: 5895841 For next: 2699 Since: 03-15-04 From: North Side School: OSU Since last post: 9 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| The Great Lakes have had a couple of ridiculous blizzards. One with sustained hurricane-force winds, in 1913, and another with gusts of over 100mph which shut down the Ohio Turnpike for the first time in history on January 26-28, 1978, the last snow from which apparantly melted on May 5th. | |||
alte Hexe Star Mario I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night Alive as you and me "But Joe you're ten years dead!" "I never died" said he "I never died!" said he Level: 99  Posts: 4325/5458 EXP: 9854489 For next: 145511 Since: 03-15-04 From: ... Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| I remember the good day when the fault line right under the Darlington nuclear power plant became active with a tremor that registered 5.1 on the Richter scale. |
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Banedon Giant Red Paratroopa Level: 55 Posts: 1380/1408 EXP: 1291380 For next: 22809 Since: 03-15-04 From: Michigan Since last post: 101 days Last activity: 90 days |
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| They built a nuclear power plant on a fault line? Sounds dangerous... Here in Michigan, we usually get thunderstorms in the summer and snow and ice storms in the winter, and that's about it. A few tornadoes, but no earthquakes or hurricanes or anything like that. When I was in sixth grade, we had a huge snowstorm in January, and schools here were closed for a whole week. Schools in the Detroit area were closed for two weeks, right after Christmas vacation ended, so they basically got an extra-long Christmas break. |
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Tanookirby Bullet Bill Level: 30 Posts: 298/509 EXP: 152637 For next: 13232 Since: 05-09-05 Since last post: 2 days Last activity: 2 hours |
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| I live in near Pittsburgh, PA, and while it does get some big snowfalls in the winter, it can't top the massive blizzard in 1993. The temperature was around -28F, a record. | |||
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Keikonium Banned Level: NAN Posts: 1450/-2459 EXP: NAN For next: 0 Since: 04-02-04 Since last post: 63 days Last activity: 9 hours |
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Originally posted by Colleen I hear ya Colleen  . I lived thru this thing in '98. We had our power out for about 2 weeks, and then ours came back. Everyone around us was still without power tho. And our water was the only one on the block that stayed. We had people (friends and family) in and out of our house showering and using the bathroom. We didn't have a generator at the time, so we were bored out of our minds. It was constant darkness except for daytime, and even then it was pretty dark with all the snow blowing around. I still remember driving down the streets with my family and seeing the broken, burnt, and just plain aweful looking houses. Trees were down all over the place . Even today there are trees that have huge slices and branches broken off from that storm. That really sucked. I hope it doesn't happen again! |
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