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All in the pole people!

*notice I said "my lightning" :p*

there is no poll!
i'm impatient!
i'm bored!
i hate everything!

edit: i retract the first statement.

edit2: despite my continued dwelling in the american midwest, i do not sleep at night due to an uncontrollable fear of sandstorms. forceful gales sweeping the great desert herself into the sky, swirling it through the air around me. i cannot breath for the dirt and dust, i cannot see for the same. sense of direction scewed, stumbling aimlessly, pointlessly through the arid landscape rendered invisible by the might of the earth. dying alone, thousands of miles from another soul. if i finally manage to succumb to my exhaustion, i wake drenched in sweat weeping and i can never remember why.

Being annihilated by a tornado scares me the most, because I live in Alabama which gets them all the time. No telling how many nights I've spent in the basement under a table with a pillow and my dog beside me while James Spann talks about the path of the storm on a T.V. that keeps losing its signal.

hail

as is everyone else in my town after baseball sized hail destroyed half the rooves and 25% of the cars

my son was almost killed, his car was utterly destroyed, my mother in laws car was destroyed with her in it and my father in laws truck's windshield was pierced by hail.

hail can hurt you.

I chose lightning because not only can you get messed up yourself, all your electronics can get fried too. So that's a double whammy.

Hurricanes. They're the most common (around here anyway), they're very destructive over a wide area, their very nature makes it hard to get away, and I've read recently that meteorologists have discovered hurricanes/tsunami/etc are getting bigger and more powerful as time goes by on (attributed to global warming, but whatever the cause that's not good news).

Lightning? Don't be the tallest electricity-conducting thing in a storm. And that doesn't happen that much. Actually that would be an awesome way to go.

Blizzards are cold I guess, but most people can handle that with indoor heating, or making a fire, or putting on more clothes.

Sandstorms? err... how much of a problem can that be.

Tornados are teh suck, but since they can happen because of hurricane conditions I chose hurricanes.

Tornado. Most everything else you can dodge or plan for. Tornadoes, however...

Tornado. Most everything else you can dodge or plan for. Tornadoes, however...

Same. And here, they're a real concern during tornado season, which makes me very, very paranoid. I hate them.

Same. And here, they're a real concern during tornado season, which makes me very, very paranoid. I hate them.



I hate it when my town is in the projected path for some tornado lol. Talk about apprehension :D

For some reason, I get struck by lightning a lot. I once had a pool party and it hailed burning ice. I hate it when rains frogs, too.

I hate it when my town is in the projected path for some tornado lol. Talk about apprehension :D

Egh, I'm not afraid of much of anything, but tornadoes are one of the few things that'll really get to me. My mom and relatives were in Toys-R-Us and a funnel started forming over the store literally right across the street.

Although I chose lightning, I think sandstorms would be pretty scary. Imagine being lost in the middle of a desert with no shelter of any kind and a sandstorm comes your way. You wouldn't be able to prevent yourself from breathing in sand or keep sand out of your eyes and when the storm is over you could get burried alive or even more lost because of the shifting sands. Horrifying.

Lightning. What most people don’t realize that it doesn’t have to hit you to kill you. It can hit something nearby, like a tree, and send fiery debris in all directions.

Tidal Wave... but that isn't on there.

I chose lightning, because we don't get any of the others where I live.

Typhoons can be really fun to take a walk in. *nods head* Yay for tropical storms

I said Tornado. Something freaky about being picked up and whirled around if you're not 5 years old and it's not by your favourite uncle of some sort.

For some reason, I get struck by lightning a lot. I once had a pool party and it hailed burning ice. I hate it when rains frogs, too.


Pharaoh? :eek: Mummy!!!! Quick, kill it again!!!!

Pharaoh? :eek: Mummy!!!! Quick, kill it again!!!!
*Grabs pitchfork and torch*

Personally, a tornado. Hurricanes ... well, I live in MA and the ones that we've been "getting" lately - using "getting" loosely - have been watered down tropical storms, so they aren't that big of a deal. If something like Hurricane Andrew hit, it would be terrifying. But a tornado...just scares the crap out of me. I think it's because when I was 6 or so I saw the movie "Twister." Oh, the effects of media on little children.

Another thing worthy of this list is volcano eruption. To add a movie parallel, Dante's Peak was quite horrifying. Actually, earthquake would be worthy of this list too, although I suppose neither of those are actually weather related, but they are natural hazards.

But here in MA, we don't get much of anything, so. I do have friends down in Florida, and I imagine hurricane season really sucks for them.

Personally, a tornado. Hurricanes ... well, I live in MA and the ones that we've been "getting" lately - using "getting" loosely - have been watered down tropical storms, so they aren't that big of a deal. If something like Hurricane Andrew hit, it would be terrifying. But a tornado...just scares the crap out of me. I think it's because when I was 6 or so I saw the movie "Twister." Oh, the effects of media on little children.

Another thing worthy of this list is volcano eruption. To add a movie parallel, Dante's Peak was quite horrifying. Actually, earthquake would be worthy of this list too, although I suppose neither of those are actually weather related, but they are natural hazards.

But here in MA, we don't get much of anything, so. I do have friends down in Florida, and I imagine hurricane season really sucks for them.



What about us in Alabama? We got Dennis, Ivan, and Opal :mad:

Really? My geography is bad. I wasn't aware that Alabama bordered the sea. Or at least, that wasn't a glaringly obvious fact to me. Whoops ;)

Hmn. Would tidal waves fall under Hurricanes?

We don't get any of those things in Wellington :D


Earthquakes however are another story..

Autumn, screams* the leaves! the leaves!

Scandinavia would be a nice place to live if you wanted to avoid earthquakes. To compensate, you freeze your bum off and get little sun :D

Egh, I'm not afraid of much of anything, but tornadoes are one of the few things that'll really get to me. My mom and relatives were in Toys-R-Us and a funnel started forming over the store literally right across the street.


Same here man I hear you not much scares me but damn for some reason Tornado's freak the hell out of me. Living in Illinois we get at least 2 a year near my town. I mean most of the time not much gets destroyed cause they are small but they still freak me out. This year though we have not had any storms here though very weird. I hate being aalone at night during a storm during the day I'm fine nut at night it really fucks with me. I hate that erie sounding siren too.

Of the one's on your list. tornados. But, if you'll count geologic phenomena, earthquakes are what I'm most afraid of.


All in the pole people!

*notice I said "my lightning" :p*

As well as spelling poll "pole" and caught "cought". ;)

I said Tornado. Something freaky about being picked up and whirled around if you're not 5 years old and it's not by your favourite uncle of some sort.

Being picked up is not what kills you in a tornado, its either your house collapsing on top of you or being impaled by flying debris. I have been in two tornados, one of them I was standing outside watching it form before I realized it was heading for me, that was fun.

Go San Francisco, protector of me from these treacheries! :p

Being picked up is not what kills you in a tornado, its either your house collapsing on top of you or being impaled by flying debris. I have been in two tornados, one of them I was standing outside watching it form before I realized it was heading for me, that was fun.


I watch them form all the time. A word of advice...if you see it moving your fine its moving away. If it looks like its just sitting there then its comming right at you and you should get the hell out of there!!!!

Typhoons can be really fun to take a walk in. *nods head* Yay for tropical storms


Lol. Not for the Americans in their flimsy wooden houses. :rolleyes:

Well, for most likely dangerous weather, here, I'd have to say blizzard. I hate being cold. :(

Lightning can sometimes make me a bit nervous, but I also love lightning, so it's one of those weird scary-fun things for me. :D

I'd love to see a tornado, IRL (from a safe distance!), but those aren't something we're likely to see much of, here in Toronto. We never get any fun weather. :(

I actually like a good thunderstorm..theres power in the air you can feel.

Tornados are a not a rare event where I live, and they can really do a lot of damage.
That would suck.

A house could fall on you and some snotty little bitch could waltz along and make off with your shoes.

I'd would be most scared of a tornado, but in where I live I don't think that's gonna happen anytime soon. The one that could happen to me a right now, would be a flood, which I wouldn't be scared of, but a lot of stuff of mine or my families would be ruined, which isn't really what I'd like

Blizzards? HAH!
You wanna talk about blizzards? Just check my location. :)

I've got stories that'll make you shiver where you sit...like the night we got 13 inches of snow, along with -30F degree wind-chills...and they STILL didn't cancel school that morning! :mad:

Anyways...yeah, Tornados scare the crap out of me, mostly because they are so unpredictable.

Caught

I don't like big storms, I always get worried that something gets damaged.

So "Hurricane" for me.

I chose lightning, because we don't get any of the others where I live.
Pretty much. Hail's actually worse, or at least worse in relation to how likely it is. The others, we just don't get.

A Super-Volcano erupting would scare the crap out of me, because it'd hail the end of society as we know it and cost a lot of lives.

Earthquakes and Tsunami are really scary, because it's bloody hard to get away from them and they move so fast.

hail

as is everyone else in my town after baseball sized hail destroyed half the rooves and 25% of the cars

my son was almost killed, his car was utterly destroyed, my mother in laws car was destroyed with her in it and my father in laws truck's windshield was pierced by hail.

hail can hurt you.


Thats really frightening. When hail is that large, there arent many safe places to hide and not much time to look for them.
Hail doesnt occur too often where I am on the shore of New Jersey-if it did, I would certainly be concerned about that. I've never seen hail much larger than a pea. (but that knocked leaves and branches off of trees-I'd hate to see it baseball sized anywhere other than the news)

I'm most concerned about hurricanes. I'm in a coastal evacuation area. I would hate to have to leave my home and dont want to think of sitting in traffic for hours while my home is flooded. I'm prepared to stay.

i do a lot of mountaineering and climbing in the UK and the alps, and over the years ive been in some serious blizzards. they are dangerous to mountaineers because we have very little shelter, so they can easily cause hypothermia and they make navigation and movement extremely difficult.