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

lukesmom · 23-11-2012 05:52PM

Giving birth is pretty scary

BraziliaNZ · 23-11-2012 06:25PM

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 · 23-11-2012 06:26PM

lukesmom wrote: »

Giving birth is pretty scary

I hope it was worth it, for Luke

Lawrence1895 · 23-11-2012 06:32PM

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

Pottler · 23-11-2012 07:01PM

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 · 23-11-2012 07:28PM

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

seven_eleven · 23-11-2012 07:31PM

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

El_Dangeroso · 23-11-2012 07:43PM

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 · 23-11-2012 07:56PM

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 · 23-11-2012 08:02PM

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 · 23-11-2012 08:04PM

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

Berlin at night · 23-11-2012 08:05PM

Scariest act of nature - my mother in law,

3ndahalfof6 · 23-11-2012 08:08PM

Berlin at night wrote: »

Scariest act of nature - my mother in law,

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

El Horseboxo · 23-11-2012 08:23PM

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

23-11-2012 08:25PM

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 · 23-11-2012 08:53PM

Thundersnow.

Pottler · 23-11-2012 09:10PM

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 · 23-11-2012 09:17PM

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 · 23-11-2012 09:31PM

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

keith16 · 23-11-2012 09:34PM

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

23-11-2012 09:59PM

keith16 wrote: »

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

Very humerus.

Latchy · 23-11-2012 10:03PM

As a crew member ,sailing back and forth across the Irish sea ,4 days a week for 4 years ,in the depths of winter taught me how wild, rough and unpredictable that stretch of water is and I quickly got my sea legs but there were days/nights during rough sailings when I would say to myself '' that's it , my sailing days are over after this one '' ...but I always went back

getzls · 23-11-2012 10:16PM

Got two shots fired at me.

Chuck Stone · 23-11-2012 10:23PM

Nearly got killed by a snowball. Okay, not me but someone could have.

A gang of us were ducking behind a wall in the school that looked onto the main road with snowballs at the ready. So a big articulated truck comes and we jump up and let off a volley of snowballs. Unfortunately the driver's window was open and one of the snowballs smashed into his ear and he nearly lost control of the truck with the fright and confusion. We legged it of course but the driver was so enraged he went to the headmaster.

The HM was roaring about the incident during assembly and I'm sure my face was bright red but nobody broke.

Cool story bro?

chickenbutt · 23-11-2012 10:25PM

A couple tornadoes and a blizzard.

ArtyM · 23-11-2012 10:26PM

Once witnessed ragweek in Athlone IT
Scary, scary thing to behold.

El Horseboxo · 23-11-2012 10:28PM

Pottler wrote: »

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

Ah I know the tornadoes all too well. They were all during the day for me mostly and you'd have been hearing the constant reports. So you'd be prepared. But nothing worse than being woke up to a loud siren and the noise of thunder and flashes of lightning. You can't see tornadoes in the dark.

sheesh · 23-11-2012 11:21PM

was in primary school when there was a proper lightening storm over the school lightening and flashes followed directly by thunder (no pause) for what seemed like a hour or so thought I was going to die.

languagenerd · 24-11-2012 12:21AM

Toepoo wrote: »

The storm at Pukkelpop 2011. That fcuked some sh1t up

That was the scariest half an hour of my life. There was a point where I genuinely thought we weren't getting out of that alive. Later that night, a taxi driver told us that people had died there and I just couldn't speak to answer him.

Have never seen anything like it, before or since! The way the sky just changed... scary as f*ck.

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

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