Last Night Was Terrible...
#1
Posted 01 September 2007 - 10:49 PM
A storm formed over my Island...
Got scared. Took me a while to fall asleep... everyone seemed so far away and everywhere seemed so dark. Ah well, only lasted two hours. Was happy =)
So anyone ever witness the power of Nature?
#2
Posted 02 September 2007 - 12:14 AM
I've never been in anything as bad as a hurricane before. The worst I had was a really bad storm in Florida whilst I visited the space center.
#3
Posted 02 September 2007 - 12:28 AM
I've been in one such storm while we were driving through Minnesota. The rain was so bad that even on the highest speed of wipers, we still couldn't see our the windows. And it was noisy as hell.
#4
Posted 02 September 2007 - 12:58 AM
Did anyone else notice the suggestiveness of the topic title?
#5
Posted 02 September 2007 - 03:19 AM
Really though that would be kind of freaky, I couldn't stay up to 3am playing video games anyway, movies maybe.
Did you light candles or use torches or phones or anything?
#6
Posted 02 September 2007 - 04:07 AM
#7
Posted 02 September 2007 - 04:58 AM
But so far, I've yet to be stuck in a giant storm, but the winds on the day the power went out in Florida were pretty rough. Rough enough for you to lose your balance if you were 6 years old.
#8
Posted 02 September 2007 - 05:32 AM
Have I ever witnessed the destructive power of Nature? I may have, but what happened in Greece once was probably man-made. The forest right next to the little town I was staying in was completely in flames(sort of like what is happening in Greece now, but it wasn't as bad). I was watching the trees burn to ashes from quite close up, and planes swooping over and dropping huge amounts of sea water. However, when the dense black smoke began coming towards the town and ash fell from the sky like rain, I had to go back to my apartment because I'm asthmatic and it was really dangerous for me to be out at a time like that.
Just be happy that you didn't witness human weapons destroying things around you, like I did. Life wasn't easy back in '99 when NATO was bombing Serbia. Bombs often falling so close to my house that the windows shook and the floors quaked. So often would I wake up with a start in the middle of the night because of the sound of a huge bomb blowing up a bridge, or hospital, or train full of civilians close to where I live. I hated when I was far from home and the sirens went off, warning us of impending danger.
#9
Posted 02 September 2007 - 05:39 AM
#10
Posted 02 September 2007 - 05:45 AM
For me, I'd say lighting one time. It was a freaking lighting and thunder storm. We live right beside a dump essentially, and power lines run through it. I'm just sitting here, playing something, I can't remember what at the moment, and lightning STRIKES the ****ing power lines. Of course, nothing weird happened with the power somehow, but the it sounded like a ****ing BOMB being set off. Made me jump. EVERYBODY in the city heard it. I have a friend that lives on the other side of the city. He heard it and it sounded like it was right beside him. The top of the power line was fried to hell the next day though.
Oh and Eugine.
That's what she said.
I couldn't resist it.
#11
Posted 02 September 2007 - 06:02 AM
Aquamarine, on Sep 2 2007, 12:32 PM, said:
I was going to say that it sounded similar. It was suggested that the fires were started so dodgy companies could build on the land. Don't know if it was true though.
#12
Posted 02 September 2007 - 08:19 AM
#13
Posted 02 September 2007 - 08:39 AM