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I was in Korea, it was snowing. Walked inside my shelter (on the back of a flatbed truck) heard thunder, turned around it was raining.
DawgBones. I never ran The Green. My river of choice was The Chattooga about 45 minutes south, it's where Deliverance was filmed..''he got a real purty mouth ain't he'' I also paddled on Lake Lure a lot, which was 16 miles from my house.
We had some sort of wind sheer hit our neighborhood this time last year. We all believe it was a tornado, but it was at night, and we couldn’t see it. About 200 trees snapped in our neighborhood with many homes having damage. Scary stuff. Other than that, the blizzard of 93 here in Atlanta was crazy. I’ve never seen snowfall like that in Georgia.
White out - blizzard. County/country road I knew no one was ahead of me Snow became heavy snow became white out very fast Had slowed down but worried about getting rear-ended Had to stop as couldn’t see beyond hood Stayed stopped 3? 5? More? minutes Then fairly abruptly could see
Boss attempted to upbraid for being late to meeting Told him above but he wasn’t convinced as he came from different direction Told him to call his wife as it went in that direction (Very compact storm) Heard no more about it
Sandstorms in Iraq. Nothing like them in the states.
-50 degrees in college at Washington State. Minus 50! Class was not cancelled.
Lived through a f4 tornado the night after oj was arrested In Oklahoma. Snowmagedon in Atlanta in the 90’s, tornado ripped through America’s Ga when I was going to school there. I know you said anything other than tropical storms and hurricanes.
There was a flood in the Nashville area in 2010. Places that you would never think would get water were 20 feet under. It was crazy. They had expected a nasty line of thunderstorms, but they went through and the system stalled and got 17 inches in 36 hours.
You wouldn't believe it.
(Excluding sitting on my front porch last Oct 7th, drinking a bottle of Mercury Head, watching Michael blow over my 140 year old house). I would have to say one of the worst weather encounters I've had was on a run I made from the Everglades back to Islamorada. It's about a 40 mile round trip though the National Park that I used to frequently do in a 17' flats boat. This particular day was off the charts. Fishing in the Glades was epic and it was late into the afternoon when I looked up to see a monster heading our way. Made the very bad decision to try and out run it. About 2 miles into open water we hit the wind which was pushing against the out going tide. By the time the storm hit we were bouncing on the deck like ping pong balls while being hit with a blast from a fire hose. 6' waves started coming over the bow and at one point I figured this was it.. By the grace of God we were able to get the skiff beached on Sandy Key. I will never forget the humming sound the graphite push pole and fly rods made when the electrical storm blew over us. We limped back to the dock in the dark, navigating by the channel 2 & 5 bridge lights. Never again have I gone out without checking the weather forecast and keeping a watchful eye on the sky.
Mid 1990's in March. 65-70 degrees and humid about 6:30 on Sat. morning getting ready for golf tourney. Wind started blowing, so hard blew the door off the proshop. Someone said "it cant blow this hard for that long". It did and it was snowing by lunch. Can remember what the temps got down to but it was really cold for south Georgia in March.
Wow
Just re-read that and I'm still laughing at myself. Sounds like one of those "there I was in the Congo" jokes.
Anyway I should have mentioned how being uninformed, unprepared, unobservant, and just plain stuppid, can get oneself and others killed. I got a pass that day and never forgot it.
Not drastic by any means, but a little unnerving on my end.
Was living in East Cobb when the '93 "blizzard" hit. Subdivision we lived in had some steep and hilly roads. My wife at that time and I were expecting our first child. She was due at anytime and that storm rolled in. I never saw snow accumulate that fast in Georgia. We both thought it was the coolest thing we ever saw. I took a camcorder out and started recording. I was in the back yard with quarter size snowflakes flowing like I've never seen. Suddenly there was a bright flash of light and a super clap of thunder simultaneously. Lightning struck a neighbor's tree. Never heard of or experienced "thunder snow." My trail through the snow back to the house looked liked a bear went through and I'm pretty sure there was a brown stain or two left in it's wake.
Got back in the house and asked the expecting wife how she felt. All was good until I started worrying about what if she went into labor and how I or they could get her to the hospital. At the time we owned "yuppy" cars......sitting in the garage. Three days later the snow melted so we could get out of the neighborhood. I went straight to the Jeep dealership and bout a '93 Jeep Cherokee 4x4. 6 Days later my first daughter was born.......
Ghost I'm wondering if that's the same storm that I was describing in my post. I think its was known as the Storm of the Century at the time. Do you remember the month,maybe?
March 13th 1993
Lol. The day even. That could be the same one. It was like summer that morning. Then hellacious wind and snowing by lunch down here. Power out, trees down, etc
Yep 3/13/93 My daughter was born 3/23/93
In fall of 1969, I was trying to get back to Phu Bai, RVN from Dong Ba Thin (near Cam Rahm Bay). Got stuck 2 days in Danang due to a typhoon. Rained as hard as I’ve ever seen it rain for about 30 hours. They said during one 24 hour period it rained 23 inches. Soaking wet for three days. Carried a 45. Took a lot of cleaning to get it right.
6 or 7 years ago I drove out to a ministry/clinic in Aurora, Colorado for a week (a suburb of Denver). It was in February. The middle of winter. While there they had recording setting cold temps. -20 degrees. Not wind chill factor but actual air temp of 20 below. I was worried about my car engine block freezing and cracking. I had antifreeze in it but being from south Ga not enough for arctic temps like that. I had to get some radiator water out to get more antifreeze in. I had a gas siphon pump thing in the trunk for the trip. Just in case..you know tools and stuff. It was just at dark and and as soon as I handled the siphon it snapped like a Christmas candy cane. It was already so cold the rubber tube had frozen rock hard. Every breath you'd breath outside hurt because the air was so cold. I got the valve on the radiator open and drained some fluid then was able to top off with the antifreeze. Anyway my engine didn't crack thankfully. I've never experienced cold like that before or since.
Two events equally terrifying: