whats the scariest incident of mother nature you have seen or been in the middle of?

sfwcork

I was in the US once when there wasa tornado storm.It was fooking freaking but seriously exciting to watch from a distance

franktheplank

First in with Your Ma.

Professey Chin

The storm at Pukkelpop 2011. That fcuked some sh1t up

mikom

My missus on the blob.

Son Of A Vidic

sfwcork wrote: »

whats the scariest incident of mother nature you have seen or been in the middle of?

Came to within 10-15 feet of Mary Harney once, spine chilling stuff I tell ya.

FatherLen

staying in a mobile in france during a very heavy storm and the thing got stuck by lightening. scared the bollox out of me.



3000!

franktheplank

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

Came to within 10-15 feet of Mary Harney once, spine chilling stuff I tell ya.

Not a lot of people know this but the reason she got so, ahem, large, is from gorging on baby seals.

True Story.

SafeSurfer

On the day before Christmas eve in 1998 I was bringing a boat load of firewood across a lake when suddenly the wind blew up and nearly capsized the boat it was squeaky bum time thats for sure.

My aunt slipped on ice and broke her hip during the big freeze a couple of years ago. I followed the ambulance in my car with my uncle, to the hospital, a distance of around 20 miles. It was the most frightening journey ever. The ambulance went off the road twice even though it was literally crawling along but the most dangerous part was walking from the hospital carpark. Myself and my uncle clung to each other for dear life. The footpath was truly lethal.

Son Of A Vidic

franktheplank wrote: »

Not a lot of people know this but the reason she got so, ahem, large, is from gorging on baby seals.

True Story.

And here was me thinking it was HSE patients.

9959

franktheplank wrote: »

First in with Your Ma.

Eh no, I think that was my Dad.

Cienciano

Drizzle. Didn't think I was getting wet, but when I got home I was actually soaked. It was scary

franktheplank

9959 wrote: »

Eh no, I think that was my Dad.

I hate to break it to you kiddo but....

9959

franktheplank wrote: »

I hate to break it to you kiddo but....

Hi Dad, any pocket money?

flas

The storm at benicassim in 2010,we were camping,it was not fun...

sfwcork

wrote:

mikom



My missus on the blob.

Yeah I tend to just do her up the back alley then.She said u cant handle it alright

franktheplank

9959 wrote: »

Hi Dad, any pocket money?

Doesn't necessarily make you mine, there may have been others, perhaps even several at a time on occasion.

Besides, you too ugly to be mine fool (sorry son).

Pilotdude5

Daily summer thunderstorms in Florida last year. Lightning hit quiet close as I was running across a motel car park(stupid stupid idea!:rolleyes:) Loudest bang I have ever heard and all I could see was bright purple for a few seconds.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/05/0522_030522_lightning.html

Lightning is a killer. It claims more victims each year than do snowstorms, hurricanes, and tornadoes. It keeps a low profile as the second largest weather-related killer, usually striking one person at a time. Only floods, which can wipe out towns, kill more people.

According to the U.S. National Weather Service, 73 people die from lightning strikes each year and hundreds more suffer life-debilitating injuries. Memory loss, attention deficits, sleep disorders, numbness, dizziness, and weakness are some of the maladies cited.

The highest death rates from lightning in the United States are in Florida, which is known as the lightning capital of the country. According to the service, from 1959 to 2003 lightning killed 3,696 people in the United States. Of those, 425 were in the Sunshine State. (The only state that did not record a lightning death in the period was Alaska).

Lightning has injured at least 2,000 people in Florida since 1959.

portron niner

Saw an avalanche tear down the side of a mountain in NZ. Probably about a mile away but it was an uninterrupted view. Sounded like styrofoam breaking.

franktheplank

Pilotdude5 wrote: »

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/05/0522_030522_lightning.html

But from my understanding it takes out quite a few golfers. Such a bad thing?

9959

franktheplank wrote: »

Doesn't necessarily make you mine, there may have been others, perhaps even several at a time on occasion.

Besides, you too ugly to be mine fool (sorry son).

That's enough information, but thanks for breaking it to me gently, brief, former Dad.

Lumbo

oxegen 2008

--Kaiser--

Was outside in a South Africa thunderstorm. Everyone else ran inside but me and my brother stood outside staring open-mouthed at the pure majesty of it

summerskin

Used to push myself back and forth in the tub when I was little. Poor rubber ducky was thrown right out on a wave.

Bath tsunamis can be lethal.

keithclancy

Seeing a foal being born.

Looks like a combination of a massive Dunnes stores plastic bag and a scene from alien.

iDave

Westmeath winning the Leinster Championship

JamieKCCO

Might not seem like much, but we got caught in a snow storm up the Galtee Mountains.

Couldn't see 10 feet in front of us and had to cover up fully because the snow was rock hard.

I loved every second of it

brummytom

A really strong blizzard in New Hampshire, US.


Well, I wasn't caught in it. I was in the warmest, nicest log cabin ever 'enjoying myself'. My family, though, were driving in it. I've never seen such a mix of terror and relief on someone's face before.

Wibbs

Driving in the rain in Ireland on a country road when BANG! lightning hit the road about 100yards/metres ahead of me. Avoided trees and other higher stuff around too. A column of light about (it looked like) about a foot across, laser straight with hard edges and an almighty bloody deafening bang. The whole car shook. Frightened the poo crossways in me. Then I remembered a car being pretty much a faraday cage can take a direct hit from lightning and leave me uncooked. Still I didn't need laxatives that day.

SEPT 23 1989

Wibbs wrote: »

Driving in the rain in Ireland on a country road when BANG! lightning hit the road about 100yards/metres ahead of me. Avoided trees and other higher stuff around too. A column of light about (it looked like) about a foot across, laser straight with hard edges and an almighty bloody deafening bang. The whole car shook. Frightened the poo crossways in me. Then I remembered a car being pretty much a faraday cage can take a direct hit from lightning and leave me uncooked. Still I didn't need laxatives that day.

There is some heat off it

Anyone

Was in LA a few years back. Staying in a hotel on the 8th or 9th floor when an earthquake hit. I shít myself. It wasn't very long after the bad earthquake in Turkey so that was on my mind. I looked out the wimdow and I could see the swimming pool moving like it was waves.

Eventually it ended, and we had to go downstairs for a headcount. Standing around for a while, I looked at a plaque on the wall and saw something like "Conrgatulations on the rebuilding after the Northridge Earthquake". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Northridge_earthquake

Was something I wont forget!

MaxSteele

The floods on October 24th last year.

Had to walk for half an hour through Clondalkin in the f*cking thing.

lukesmom

Giving birth is pretty scary

BraziliaNZ

Lying in bed in Wellington once with a terrible hangover at night, had the horrors, DTs etc, the bed started shaking and rattling etc and I thought the horrors had escalated to a new level of freakiness, was sh*tting myself, when it stopped I just pretended it never happened and tried to get back to sleep. The next morning when I was at work my flatmate emailed me to ask if I felt the Earthquake last night, so that explained a lot!

BraziliaNZ

lukesmom wrote: »

Giving birth is pretty scary

I hope it was worth it, for Luke

Lawrence1895

A heatwave in Germany 12 years ago, was at a football match and they ran out of beer at half time :eek:

Pottler

Was working in Carlow and headed home in gentle drizzle but v.cold. Had the great idea of going over the wicklow gap as a "short-cut" - got up there and it was banging down a blizzard, complete white-out. Anyone whose driven a rear wheel drive transit can attest just how great they are in slippery conditions so we had a nice butt tightening drive trying very hard not to slide out over the edge down the steep drops beside the road. First time I was ever glad to get to Ballymore Eustace.

Run_to_da_hills

On the Maidens Lighthouse off northern coast the during Hurricane Charlie, waves were sweeping right over the tower, couldn't go outside.

seven_eleven

Huge lightning storm in the Tatra mountains. Lightning struck about 80ft away from me. Loudest thing Ive ever heard.

El_Dangeroso

The bogong moth invasion of Sydney in 2007, these fuckers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Weim-gMoHJY

We had just arrived in Gouldburn outside of Sydney and our motel room had about 300 of the feckers, they kept crawling under the door into the room too. We then saw on the news that the sky in Sydney was black with them, it was like something out of the bible.
*Shudder*

3ndahalfof6

I seen a snowflake fall once all on its own, what the fook could one small snowflake do to be thrown out from the masses, how could all the other snowflakes live with themselves,

I had to stand there watching it melting all alone, I don't think I will ever be the same again,

you would never see hail act like this, they stick together threw thick and thin, mudder nature can be so cruel at times, it beggars belief.

promethius

was at a conference in new orleans when hurricane katrina hit. was able to stay in the hotel when it hit and stranded for a week until the national guard arrived etc and bussed out to texas.

slept on the floor in the ballroom since it had no external windows. trying to sleep while the windows are popping everywhere and the whole building sways wasn't a great way to doze off. then the bloody rationed meals.

armed security on the hotel door keeping out the locals who were busy looting and trying to get in.

i was lucky compared to most there. the superdome was meant to have been hell on earth with rape gangs and all going on.

Big Bottom

I was chased by a Silverback Gorilla in the Zoo I nearly shat myself.

Berlin at night

Scariest act of nature - my mother in law,

3ndahalfof6

Berlin at night wrote: »

Scariest act of nature - my mother in law,

Judge, S.C. , Barrister , solicitor, other. ?

El Horseboxo

Growing up in Kansas i experienced a lot of extreme weather. The tornado sirens at night were quite scary.

9959

A few years ago I went on a family holiday to the sunshine island of Fuertuventura. One day a small cloud appeared in the sky and headed towards the sun like a heat-seeking missile thingy, even the kiddies stared silently in wonder whilst pointing E.T. like to the heavens, eventually it found its quarry before enveloping it like, well a cloud. It hovered there apocalyptically for 5 minutes before moving on, it was very very scary.

Mr.Crinklewood

Thundersnow.

Pottler

El Horseboxo wrote: »

Growing up in Kansas i experienced a lot of extreme weather. The tornado sirens at night were quite scary.

Not half as scary as the actual tornadoes though.:D We got one once, in Blanch, it affected a whole street. Yeah.

Andrewf20

14,500ft up Illiniza North in Ecuador with lightening hitting the ground perhaps less than a km away with impossibly loud thunder. Lashing rain, almost no visibility and no real cover. Our guide told us to turn off our mobile phones just in case and keep low. Very scary.

Sorcha16

I had the misfortune of going to a Westlife concert once, my ears haemorrhaged like a Gaddafi hostage for a week afterwards

keith16

A solar flare once hit me in the funny bone. I was almost killed between the sunburn and the laughter.