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Excluding natural disasters (tornados, hurricanes, etc) what is the worst weather you have ever witn

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  • DawgBonesDawgBones Posts: 2,253 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    WC, since you lived over in Black Mt I figured you might have done the Green. It's just south of Asheville around Tuxedo. Many moons ago I ran the Narrows section right after a heavy rain. I was paddling an old Eskimo Topo and afterwards was glad to still be alive. Young bloods tried to get me to do Linville gorge but fortunately I was just scared enough to be that stuppid.

  • MODawgMODawg Posts: 479 ✭✭✭✭ Senior

    Don't get loads into Canada but Montana, the Dakotas, Wyoming are nightmares in the winter, so I can see it being worse up there. It probably looked like you were driving in the North Pole.

  • tfk_fanboytfk_fanboy Posts: 2,821 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    was 85, slightly cloudy/mostly sunny, and moderate humidity the entire week of my honeymoon. I struggled with wanting to be outside and wanting to be in the bedroom

  • CTDawgCTDawg Posts: 2,107 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Troop 444 in Marietta, GA. Eagled right before my 18th birthday!

  • RxDawgRxDawg Posts: 2,922 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    I tried it... I could never get the flip down. Especially in running water.

  • ziggyholidayziggyholiday Posts: 492 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    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.

  • WCDawgWCDawg Posts: 17,293 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    edited June 2019

    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.

  • greshamdiscogreshamdisco Posts: 2,674 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    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.

  • FirePlugDawgFirePlugDawg Posts: 5,480 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    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

  • pgjacksonpgjackson Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Sandstorms in Iraq. Nothing like them in the states.

    -50 degrees in college at Washington State. Minus 50! Class was not cancelled.

  • NOVADAWGNOVADAWG Posts: 921 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    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.

  • TNDawg71TNDawg71 Posts: 2,228 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    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.

  • CatfishCatfish Posts: 1,703 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    You wouldn't believe it.

  • DawgBonesDawgBones Posts: 2,253 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    (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.

  • RPMdawgRPMdawg Posts: 2,928 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    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.

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