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

sfwcork · 23-11-2012 04:03PM #1

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

franktheplank · 23-11-2012 04:12PM

First in with Your Ma.

Professey Chin · 23-11-2012 04:13PM

The storm at Pukkelpop 2011. That fcuked some sh1t up

mikom · 23-11-2012 04:14PM

My missus on the blob.

Son Of A Vidic · 23-11-2012 04:15PM

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 · 23-11-2012 04:16PM

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 · 23-11-2012 04:17PM

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 · 23-11-2012 04:17PM

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 · 23-11-2012 04:20PM

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.

23-11-2012 04:20PM

franktheplank wrote: »

First in with Your Ma.

Eh no, I think that was my Dad.

Cienciano · 23-11-2012 04:21PM

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

franktheplank · 23-11-2012 04:21PM

9959 wrote: »

Eh no, I think that was my Dad.

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

23-11-2012 04:27PM

franktheplank wrote: »

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

Hi Dad, any pocket money?

flas · 23-11-2012 04:28PM

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

sfwcork · 23-11-2012 04:29PM

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 · 23-11-2012 04:30PM

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 · 23-11-2012 04:30PM

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 · 23-11-2012 04:31PM

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 · 23-11-2012 04:32PM

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?

23-11-2012 04:32PM

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 · 23-11-2012 04:33PM

oxegen 2008

--Kaiser-- · 23-11-2012 04:34PM

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 · 23-11-2012 04:35PM

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 · 23-11-2012 05:28PM

Seeing a foal being born.

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

iDave · 23-11-2012 05:32PM

Westmeath winning the Leinster Championship

JamieKCCO · 23-11-2012 05:32PM

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 · 23-11-2012 05:37PM

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 · 23-11-2012 05:38PM

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 · 23-11-2012 05:44PM

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 · 23-11-2012 05:46PM

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 · 23-11-2012 05:50PM

The floods on October 24th last year.

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

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

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