O Keros

[chicoazul]

What's the worst or most extreme weather you've ever experienced?

I've been in flooding and a major hurricane but I was driving down south last year I think, in the middle of the night and had to stop the car on the M6 toll road as the fog was THAT bad.

It was incredible, couldn't see in front of you at all stuff.

 

[bluebastardo]

I had a bad time of it in a storm out at sea once, but not on land, unless I count the time the wind was so strong in Worcester one day, that I was able to lie a foot off the ground with the wind supporting my weight.

 

[Dylan]

Hmm, had a couple of tropical storms in Hawaii...an earthquake in Hawaii and in Washington state.

But the worst I have been hit was when Hurricane Isabel touched us up in 2003. I lived right on the water in a little town called Stonington in Connecticut (before I moved to Hawaii) and our whole yard flooded. We parked our cars up the street a little and the water crept up the road and touched my tires. Crazy winds, rain coming in at all angles, mostly horizontal ones, and sometimes upwards too. Good times.....I have a video of it somewhere on the hard drive of the winds first hitting. I will look for it and post it if I find it later.

 

[Dylan]

Oh, and I have been in some wicked storms out to sea. 60 degree rolls 50 miles off of the Straits of Juan de Fuca......That is no joke...I thought it was over for me, especially as I was on the bridge. Submarines aren't designed to be stable on the surface, but we didnt have nay assigned water so couldn't submerge.

 

[McBain]

45 degree heat, but no hurricanes or earthquakes here thanks

 

[Whitebootman]

Oh, and I have been in some wicked storms out to sea. 60 degree rolls 50 miles off of the Straits of Juan de Fuca......That is no joke...I thought it was over for me, especially as I was on the bridge. Submarines aren't designed to be stable on the surface, but we didnt have nay assigned water so couldn't submerge.

Monster storms at sea, the bridge of a submarine is definately the best place to be. Once we were inspecting a mast after a hugh lump of driftwood hit it while we were at at periscope depth. Nothing like the feeling, terror and fun at the same time. Sometimes I think I'd pay good money to go back and experience it one more time. Then I come to my senses.

 

[Welton Toffee]

It rained quite a bit yesterday.

 

[Mutzo Nutzo]

It was 2005, I had just topped out on Aconcagua, and during the descent down the Polish Glacier, a vicious storm blew in. Everything was fine one minute, and then boom...blizzard conditions 120+ MPH winds, zero visibility, temp dropped off bout -20 degress in about 10 minutes. Lightening striking the snow 40 feet away from us

Extremely frightening - at one point I didn't think we were going to make it, we had to plant in ice screws, and fix lines, then rappel in pairs down the glacier, as descending without fixing yourself to a line in those conditions would have meant certain death.

I still have nightmares today about that day!

 

[Dylan]

Monster storms at sea, the bridge of a submarine is definately the best place to be. Once we were inspecting a mast after a hugh lump of driftwood hit it while we were at at periscope depth. Nothing like the feeling, terror and fun at the same time. Sometimes I think I'd pay good money to go back and experience it one more time. Then I come to my senses.

Well, if on the surface in storms like that, I would rather be on lower level rather than on the bridge rigging the portable radar (even better, in my rack, asleep with the 'gentle rolls' calming me ). We were in harnesses and everything, but that Furuno was a B-I-T-C-H to rig. It was cold and I was drenched....hands freezing which doesn't help when you are trying to precisley line up the bracket of a 75lb radar to the top of the mast light and screw in those bolts to keep it secure.

That 30 minutes was the scariest of my life.

As for going back out....I have that option in June, but I don't think I am gonna take it.

 

[chicoazul]

Dylan and Mutz, I doff my cap. I would have been bricking it.

 

[Bundy]

I been in one cyclone or "hurricane". Nearly got another one early in the year but decided to go out to sea in the last few hours.

 

[chicoazul]

I been in one cyclone or "hurricane". Nearly got another one early in the year but decided to go out to sea in the last few hours.

You don't want one lid, they be nasty.

 

[Dylan]

I wanna see one of these bad-boys. From a safe distance, like.