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Who likes storms?????
owen219
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I love a good storm, lightning, thunder,wind. I love the smell of the ozone from lightning. I love the worst snow storms too. Have been through one tornado but did not get hurt. Been in many big blizzards too. I remember the 1978 blizzard when I snowmobiled over a two story house, only the top of the chimney was showing, saw drifts 30+ feet high, had my cars in the garage and the engine compartments were completely pack in snow with about 5 feet of snow in the closed garage, snow was so deep it was impossible to walk through it, The Abrahams XM1 tank could not even get through the roads, it got stuck, (the tank plant was in my home town and they tried them when no road could be opened with any other kind of vehicles). My neighbor finally got out his biggest John Deere tractor and made some headway after 3 days. Nothing was moving except the snowmobiles and you did not dare get off one as you would sink over your head in the snow in most places. There wasn't a fence to be seen anywhere. Snowmobiling we found a McDonalds open with the manager as the total crew. He fed anyone for free in the emergency. We ran prescripton drugs to people from the drug store with the pharmasist on the phone telling us what to get and who to take it to. I had a Dr. with me and he would stop and deliver a baby wherever he needed to go. We bought bigger and better snowmobiles the next year. 5 times I had to go pickup employees in blizzards to get our business open and running. I had a big powerful machine with a 3 person sled to pull behind it. Actually enjoyed every minute of it. Haven't been directly in a real hurricane yet though. Any storm fans out there or storm stories to share?
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i love snow and cold weather. it doesnt effect me at all.
Except severe weather means I go to work, no matter what time of day or night it is.
Last fall we had hurricane force winds (77mph) come through here. I told the wife "I wonder what would happen if you tried to pee in a hurricane". She laughed at me, and said "there's one way to find out", thinking that I would not be stupid enough to try it. I showed her, went out did the deed, and I came back in the house, she was asking me questions, and I didn't say anything, I just headed for the bathroom. She thought I was hit by some flying debris or something. After I washed off my face, my ears, neck, and dried my hair, I told her how I was covered in urine, and I didn't want to open my mouth until I got cleaned up. I even had it dripping off my nose. The front of my shirt and pants were also all wet. She was laughing so hard she had to cross her legs to keep from wetting her pants. My problems were probably caused by standing too close to the house and the wind swirled around and blew my juices right back at me. It startled me so much, that I forgot to shut off the flow right away. So If anyone has the urge to pee in a hurricane, take a lesson from me and do it away from buildings or other wind altering objects.[:D]
Fun times!
Saw a Waterspout come ashore and topple rows of shipping containers in Long Beach California back in about 1983 - from about seventy feet away!
I still like strong storms - up to a point.
now I dont like them so much [:D]