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| GreenAngel3
Offer Upgrade  User ID: 35603240  United States09/28/2022 10:09 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I'll start. First was an earthquake. It was on the eastcoast about 12 years ago. I was playing guitar hero with my younger brother and the floor started doing the wave. I was like "wtf?" And then it got stronger, and just, happened. Strong rumbling. I could barely walk I was so scared. I ran out the front door screaming and could hear other moms outside screaming for their kids. It was over as soon as it started. Another time, I heard the weather sirens come on outside and announce a severe thunderstorm warning. Walked outside and looked up, because I've always LOVED thunderstorms, and I see a funnel cloud coming down over my house. I was screaming and crying to my mom "we're gonna die we're gonna die!!!" She was still inside, laughing at me because she thought I was lying and joking. She came outside to see it and had me come inside. All the other adults outside looking just kept saying how cool it was. No the hell it was NOT!!! ITS SUPER FUN to see on videos and the news, in person is another story. That was probably the scariest for me. I mean, I've been in blizzards and hurricanes but those were okay. Tornadoes and earthquakes are terrifying. Your turn!!  Last Edited by GreenAngel3 on 09/28/2022 10:10 PM "ask and you will receive." "Somewhere down yonder." We all have a purpose and gift(s). The sooner you realize that and embrace that passion, the sooner your life begins. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 75642021 United States09/28/2022 10:43 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Also, I almost got swept out to sea by a rogue wave while fishing on a huge rock in the 2011 Japan tsunami. No lie. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 47549919 United States09/28/2022 10:44 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I'll start. Quoting: GreenAngel3 First was an earthquake. It was on the eastcoast about 12 years ago. I was playing guitar hero with my younger brother and the floor started doing the wave. I was like "wtf?" And then it got stronger, and just, happened. Strong rumbling. I could barely walk I was so scared. I ran out the front door screaming and could hear other moms outside screaming for their kids. It was over as soon as it started. Another time, I heard the weather sirens come on outside and announce a severe thunderstorm warning. Walked outside and looked up, because I've always LOVED thunderstorms, and I see a funnel cloud coming down over my house. I was screaming and crying to my mom "we're gonna die we're gonna die!!!" She was still inside, laughing at me because she thought I was lying and joking. She came outside to see it and had me come inside. All the other adults outside looking just kept saying how cool it was. No the hell it was NOT!!! ITS SUPER FUN to see on videos and the news, in person is another story. That was probably the scariest for me. I mean, I've been in blizzards and hurricanes but those were okay. Tornadoes and earthquakes are terrifying. Your turn!! the joe biden fucking potato head administration |
| Boiling Frog
User ID: 84093329 United States09/28/2022 10:44 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Hurricane Laura… it looked like an atomic bomb went off in this area when it was finished. Never will stay for another Quoting: Anonymous Coward 73053361 Same, Cameron LA was blowed up. I got caught in a small freak tornado while turkey hunting. That made my taint tingle for sure, passed right over me. LET'S GO BRANDON!!! Ego imperium repraesentabo nope nos repraesentat! My location says Canada sometimes, even though I'm in America. |
| Grove Street (Redux 3.0)
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 84226927 United States09/28/2022 11:12 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | A tornado hit my house when I was in it. My mom smelled gas, so she made us all go outside to the neighbors (while the tornado was still raging!), and their house was gone. The person next to them lost their top floor. And another neighbor lost their garage. So we went to the 4th house down, the one that was least damaged, and about half the neighborhood was in there, because the tornado missed their house. We were lucky, it just blew down our front doors and blew away our heavy lawn furniture. We never did find it. |
| Rev Woo-Woo
User ID: 37263597 United States09/28/2022 11:16 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 1989 San Francisco area quake. I was downtown, Tenderloin. Sat on the roof and watched the city on fire that night (Marina district). No power, water or phone for at least 2 to 3 days. Only news was via radio. Trippy experience! “If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.” Thich Nhat Hanh, Being Peace "But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you; or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish in the sea inform you." - Job 12:7,8 "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." - Hunter S. Thompson revstargazer (at) hotmail.com |
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| DaKine
User ID: 76599777 United States09/28/2022 11:22 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 1989 San Francisco area quake. I was downtown, Tenderloin. Sat on the roof and watched the city on fire that night (Marina district). No power, water or phone for at least 2 to 3 days. Only news was via radio. Trippy experience! Quoting: Rev Woo-Woo Me too! Loma Prieta. I was leaving work in San Jose walking down a one story stairwell when it hit. It dropped me to my rear end, and i was gripping the railing and actually said…. “It’s the big one!” Once settled my friend from work and I walked out to see a heck of a mess!! Memories  For |
| burnice
User ID: 78052870 United States09/28/2022 11:26 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | A tornado hit my house when I was in it. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 84226927 My mom smelled gas, so she made us all go outside to the neighbors (while the tornado was still raging!), and their house was gone. The person next to them lost their top floor. And another neighbor lost their garage. So we went to the 4th house down, the one that was least damaged, and about half the neighborhood was in there, because the tornado missed their house. We were lucky, it just blew down our front doors and blew away our heavy lawn furniture. We never did find it. Been scared of being hit by tornados numerous times. In 2010, saw a funnel half way to the ground while driving, which everyone here knows that means it's actually on the ground. I hauled ass the other direction and missed it. Found out later it damaged a school that was right where I saw it, and then went up and took out the truck stop a few miles east. Probably the scariest moment of my life. |
| Rev Woo-Woo
User ID: 37263597 United States09/28/2022 11:36 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 1989 San Francisco area quake. I was downtown, Tenderloin. Sat on the roof and watched the city on fire that night (Marina district). No power, water or phone for at least 2 to 3 days. Only news was via radio. Trippy experience! Quoting: Rev Woo-Woo Me too! Loma Prieta. I was leaving work in San Jose walking down a one story stairwell when it hit. It dropped me to my rear end, and i was gripping the railing and actually said…. “It’s the big one!” Once settled my friend from work and I walked out to see a heck of a mess!! Memories For We were the only ones in our apartment building with a battery powered radio (and fresh batteries), candles and bottled water. Shared with all. It was weird when it hit, I thought it was the big one as well and everything seemed to be in slow motion. “If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.” Thich Nhat Hanh, Being Peace "But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you; or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish in the sea inform you." - Job 12:7,8 "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." - Hunter S. Thompson revstargazer (at) hotmail.com |
| Rev Woo-Woo
User ID: 37263597 United States09/28/2022 11:37 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | “Da Kine”, are living in Hawaii now as well? “If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.” Thich Nhat Hanh, Being Peace "But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you; or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish in the sea inform you." - Job 12:7,8 "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." - Hunter S. Thompson revstargazer (at) hotmail.com |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 72118504 United States09/28/2022 11:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Very similar to your experiences OP. Was living in West LA I am from the Midwest. Northridge Quake....hit in middle night early morning, while apartment comes rocking back and forth felt like a house of cards that could collapse. Helpless feeling. Had only bn living in LA for a few years. Back in Oklahoma from SoCal after 30 years. 1st year back had to drive to pic up friend coming into Tulsa Airport form CA to visit. Line of Severe thundstorms that day, many spin up. Hit aby a F1 in my truck driving on the highway. Luckily was open field are by a big park, no debris, the rain the hail then the wind, so powerful, have never paid so fast for 60 + seconds holding onto my steering wheel just getting backed by powerful winds hoping my truck was not swept away with me in it. It was traumatic experience. I watch Ryan Hall during the spring, if forecast is for badness, I'm in the cellar ✌ |
| Biden is not my President
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| DaKine
User ID: 76599777 United States09/29/2022 12:53 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 1989 San Francisco area quake. I was downtown, Tenderloin. Sat on the roof and watched the city on fire that night (Marina district). No power, water or phone for at least 2 to 3 days. Only news was via radio. Trippy experience! Quoting: Rev Woo-Woo My dog was at home a few miles away, so I immediately jumped in my car to drive home and I remember hearing silence on my favorite radio station and then hearing them come back on and saying WTH? Sadly, I am no longer in paradise. I left there many moons ago. How goes it there now? |
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| Rev Woo-Woo
User ID: 37263597 United States09/29/2022 01:15 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 1989 San Francisco area quake. I was downtown, Tenderloin. Sat on the roof and watched the city on fire that night (Marina district). No power, water or phone for at least 2 to 3 days. Only news was via radio. Trippy experience! Quoting: Rev Woo-Woo My dog was at home a few miles away, so I immediately jumped in my car to drive home and I remember hearing silence on my favorite radio station and then hearing them come back on and saying WTH? Sadly, I am no longer in paradise. I left there many moons ago. How goes it there now? Too many tourists trampling everything but other then that, still paradise! I see you still have the islands in your heart since you go by Da Kine.  “If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.” Thich Nhat Hanh, Being Peace "But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you; or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish in the sea inform you." - Job 12:7,8 "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." - Hunter S. Thompson revstargazer (at) hotmail.com |
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