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Posted: 1/27/2023 11:47:34 PM EDT
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Katrina
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Posted: 1/27/2023 11:48:57 PM EDT
[#2]
Katrina, August 29, 2005.
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Posted: 1/27/2023 11:49:23 PM EDT
[#3]
I've seen a lot of the aftermath being a lineman 37 years. Hurricanes, tornadoes, wild fires, flooding.
We have never had to deal with it personally. I just spent the last 3 days in Deer Park and Pasadena while our crews picked up wire and replaced poles due to the tornadoes. It was bad but not bad as some I've seen. But 8f you lose your house its about as bad as it gets, and some did. Thankfully my family and I have never had to deal with that type of loss.  Attached File Attached FileCouple pics from Deer Park, TX |
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Posted: 1/27/2023 11:51:20 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I've seen a lot of the aftermath being a lineman 37 years. Hurricanes, tornadoes, wild fires, flooding. We have never had to deal with it personally. I just spent the last 3 days in Deer Park and Pasadena while our crews picked up wire and replaced poles due to the tornadoes. It was bad but not bad as some I've seen. But 8f you lose your house its about as bad as it gets, and some did. Thankfully my family and I have never had to deal with that type of loss. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/257708/Screenshot_20230127_214744_Gallery_jpg-2688012.JPGhttps://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/257708/Screenshot_20230127_214719_Gallery_jpg-2688016.JPG Couple pics from Deer Park, TX Thanks for helping people get their power back bro.  Your job is underappreciated |
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Posted: 1/27/2023 11:51:38 PM EDT
[#5]
i've had it easy.
the blizzard of '93 is all that stands out, and all that did was make my road unpassable for 3 days in one direction and a week in the other. |
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Posted: 1/27/2023 11:54:56 PM EDT
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I was married for 8 years, does that count?
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Posted: 1/28/2023 12:02:00 AM EDT
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Andrew was a bad one, though Ian, Irma, Charlie, and Opal were pretty bad as well. I deployed to the Homestead/Florida City/North Key Largo area with my Florida National Guard unit and will grant that Andrew has probably had the "sportiest" aftermath as far as Hurricanes go. I've also Fires, Floods, Tornadoes, Blizzards, and Ice Storms, and they can be quire an experience as well. I really can't tell you which one is the WORST (today I would probably pick Ian because it lasted so long, but none of the of the CAT IV/CAT V were anything nice. I WILL agree Hurricane Andrew was the one that taught me to always be prepared, and that preps included enough firepower and gear to hold off an Infantry Fire Team. However, the OK tornadoes and wildfires taught me the wisdom respectively of hardened (preferably underground if possible) and keeping a "go" bag and your vehicles fully fueled.
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Posted: 1/28/2023 12:07:06 AM EDT
[#8]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Hurricane Harvey in Houston |
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Posted: 1/28/2023 12:16:44 AM EDT
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Like many MI and OH folks of a certain age the The Blizzard of '78. 45 years and two days ago as I type this. My mom had just broken both arms in an ice skating fall a couple days before. She was supposed to go to the doc and have the arms checked for a proper set Friday, Jan 27th. The snowplows didn't make it to our neighborhood until Friday Feb. 3rd. One wasn't set right and had to be rebroken.
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Posted: 1/28/2023 12:16:49 AM EDT
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Hurricane Rita 2005 - lots of wind damage, was moving from one city to another and sustained damage at both homes - power out for almost a month - rebuilt
Hurricane Ike 2008 - 2' of salt water into the home - rebuilt Hurricane Harvey 2017 - 10" of fresh water into the home - rebuilt If the fucking toilet overflows I am out of here |
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Posted: 1/28/2023 12:21:38 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Thanks for helping people get their power back bro. Your job is underappreciated Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I've seen a lot of the aftermath being a lineman 37 years. Hurricanes, tornadoes, wild fires, flooding. We have never had to deal with it personally. I just spent the last 3 days in Deer Park and Pasadena while our crews picked up wire and replaced poles due to the tornadoes. It was bad but not bad as some I've seen. But 8f you lose your house its about as bad as it gets, and some did. Thankfully my family and I have never had to deal with that type of loss. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/257708/Screenshot_20230127_214744_Gallery_jpg-2688012.JPGhttps://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/257708/Screenshot_20230127_214719_Gallery_jpg-2688016.JPG Couple pics from Deer Park, TX Thanks for helping people get their power back bro. Your job is underappreciated And dangerous. During an ice storm when power goes out at 3a.m. from downed lines and blown transformers, these are the guys that brave the dark, cold and killer voltage to get it back on. |
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Posted: 1/28/2023 12:22:06 AM EDT
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Hurricane Katrina in Mississippi, which was actually ground zero, not Nawlins
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Posted: 1/28/2023 12:23:47 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Out west you get fires or earthquakes. I've felt a few earthquakes, but never had any damage from them. No fires that came real close. Only one evacuation. So really, no big disaster in 55 years. I was 3 blocks away from the 1999 tornado that formed and hit downtown Salt Lake City and didn’t know until I got back to the office from lunch. Was making out in a parked car with my then girlfriend and it just rained insanely hard. |
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Posted: 1/28/2023 12:29:05 AM EDT
[#14]
Derechos Naders Floods. It can get pretty sporty here.
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Posted: 1/28/2023 12:30:12 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Biden. He and the 'Dark winter' isn't natural, it is a man made disater and planned well in advance. You can add Bill Gates and Fauchi's bioweapon attack on the world to that list. |
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Posted: 1/28/2023 12:31:46 AM EDT
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Hugo. Oh, and then that winter storm around 2011 that hit Alamogordo and Texas (coldest recorded temps in 138 years).
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Posted: 1/28/2023 12:36:54 AM EDT
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We were canoeing and camping in the remote wilderness of the BWCA during the blowdown on July 4th, 1999. Huge pine trees were snapping like twigs and falling all around us. Not my picture, but a similar experience-
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundary_Waters%E2%80%93Canadian_derecho |
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Posted: 1/28/2023 12:39:12 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: And dangerous. During an ice storm when power goes out at 3a.m. from downed lines and blown transformers, these are the guys that brave the dark, cold and killer voltage to get it back on. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: I've seen a lot of the aftermath being a lineman 37 years. Hurricanes, tornadoes, wild fires, flooding. We have never had to deal with it personally. I just spent the last 3 days in Deer Park and Pasadena while our crews picked up wire and replaced poles due to the tornadoes. It was bad but not bad as some I've seen. But 8f you lose your house its about as bad as it gets, and some did. Thankfully my family and I have never had to deal with that type of loss. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/257708/Screenshot_20230127_214744_Gallery_jpg-2688012.JPGhttps://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/257708/Screenshot_20230127_214719_Gallery_jpg-2688016.JPG Couple pics from Deer Park, TX Thanks for helping people get their power back bro. Your job is underappreciated And dangerous. During an ice storm when power goes out at 3a.m. from downed lines and blown transformers, these are the guys that brave the dark, cold and killer voltage to get it back on. More people would have an actual energy policy if they understood what is required for you to consume energy, which I think most people take for granted. |
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Posted: 1/28/2023 12:40:38 AM EDT
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I did Hurricane Hugo in 89 ... the eye of the storm, if you put crosshairs through it, literally passed right over my home on Waterway on the Isle of Palms.
Took me 12 days to get back on the island thanks to a buddy with a Boston Whaler ... we came up the intercoastal and I walked across the (Wild Dunes) golf course and was confronted by a National Guardsman who let me go to my house when I showed him my drivers license. We had rode the storm out at a friend's house in Walterboro a few miles inland. It was a brutal, compact, storm ... there were times when we thought we were going to die. It stayed so strong, all the way inland and across the state of SC ... more people died in Charlotte than in Charleston. It laid bare most of the state up I-26. |
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Posted: 1/28/2023 12:42:40 AM EDT
[#20]
Finding out that you have terminal cancer. You can only have terminal cancer once.
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Posted: 1/28/2023 12:43:06 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Lots of hurricanes and tropical storms in my life. But Harvey takes the cake. Driving my boat down city streets was and still is surreal. Refinery explosions are a trip too. Yeah…Harvey was pretty crazy. I think I got around 60” of rain… I’ve seen an F5 tornado from far away, but 5 fucking feet of water is still harder for me to even imagine.. 
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Posted: 1/28/2023 12:44:28 AM EDT
[#22]
The Biden Administration
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Posted: 1/28/2023 12:47:06 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The Biden Administration Pretty sure that one is man made.. |
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Posted: 1/28/2023 12:50:05 AM EDT
[#24]
Most memorable for me are:
Sylmar earthquake of 1970 Mt. Spurr Alaska eruption 1992 - mostly because of the ash cloud, ash fall and darkness and cleaning up the ash. Anchorage earthquake 2018 - created a BFM in my house. |
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Posted: 1/28/2023 12:52:06 AM EDT
[#25]
Ice Storm '98
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Posted: 1/28/2023 1:01:19 AM EDT
[#26]
Loma Prieta in ‘89. Watching asphalt look like ripples on a lake was insane. The aftermath was like a 3rd world country. Crazy time to be 16 along the central coast of CA.
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Posted: 1/28/2023 1:02:26 AM EDT
[#27]
Quote HistoryQuoted: And dangerous. During an ice storm when power goes out at 3a.m. from downed lines and blown transformers, these are the guys that brave the dark, cold and killer voltage to get it back on. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: I've seen a lot of the aftermath being a lineman 37 years. Hurricanes, tornadoes, wild fires, flooding. We have never had to deal with it personally. I just spent the last 3 days in Deer Park and Pasadena while our crews picked up wire and replaced poles due to the tornadoes. It was bad but not bad as some I've seen. But 8f you lose your house its about as bad as it gets, and some did. Thankfully my family and I have never had to deal with that type of loss. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/257708/Screenshot_20230127_214744_Gallery_jpg-2688012.JPGhttps://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/257708/Screenshot_20230127_214719_Gallery_jpg-2688016.JPG Couple pics from Deer Park, TX Thanks for helping people get their power back bro. Your job is underappreciated And dangerous. During an ice storm when power goes out at 3a.m. from downed lines and blown transformers, these are the guys that brave the dark, cold and killer voltage to get it back on. I've seen a lot of power outages during brutal winter storms. My first thought is 'I do not want that job'. 6, 8, 10 hours no power? Doesn't matter. I have never once considered calling and complaining. I'm sure people do. |
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Posted: 1/28/2023 1:08:14 AM EDT
[#28]
The worst natural disaster I've been in was a (relatively minor) earthquake in California as a kid. My mom grabbed me and we hid under the kitchen table and I missed like 5 minutes of Sesame Street.
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Posted: 1/28/2023 1:11:53 AM EDT
[#29]
wildfire.
but we get those every summer.
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Posted: 1/28/2023 1:12:55 AM EDT
[#30]
Desert wildfire of pretty large proportions. Got within 1000 feet of my house. Nothing of this scale
had happened in the 30 years I lived there.  Attached FileI moved later that year, and less than a year after this fire had a massive forest fire threaten my new home; we were in the "set" stage of ready, set, go evacuation orders for a full week; a fellow ARF member slightly closer to the fire had to evacuate. |
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Posted: 1/28/2023 1:15:27 AM EDT
[#31]
My first girlfriend.
I broke rule #1, NEVER stick your dick in the crazy. |
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Posted: 1/28/2023 1:23:03 AM EDT
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Hurricane Fran- it was apocalyptic
The scoreboard at our football field.  Attached FileThe water level against the goal post  Attached FileThis house sat beside the football field before the storm. After the storm it sat ON the football field.  Attached File |
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Posted: 1/28/2023 1:48:53 AM EDT
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Very localized, and likely most here have never heard of it. Flood of 1995. Madison County, Virginia. Freak weather system dumped 30 inches of rain in 16 hours, and 14 inches of that fell in the first hour and a half. Washed out a good chunk of the roads there. National Guard had to bring in Hueys for SAR. The only way in or out for a couple days was by helicopter. Huge mudslides. The scars of which are still visible from miles away even today if you know where to look.
https://www.nbc29.com/2020/06/27/remembering-sights-years-after-devastating-madison-county-flood/ I was 14 at the time, but it was all hands on deck for recovery. I spent two days at the volunteer rescue squad helping the Mennonite ladies in cook food to feed all the first responders, one of whom was my dad. Hence, why 14 yo me was at the squad building running a can opener and slingin' eggs. That was the day I learned to respect moving water. An absolutely mind boggling amount of damage done, and objects moved that you never thought would. My best friend's mother was the postmaster at the Graves Mill Post Office. It was gone. Everything around it was gone. Where my friend's driveway came up to the house was a huge chasm left where the mountainside liquefied and ran away, sparing their house by about 50 feet. The river that ran through the valley completely changed course. On the road leading in the floodwaters deposited a boulder the size of a house. No other debris around it. Just this rounded, house sized boulder chillin' on the washed out roadbed. No machine that mankind had on the eastern seaboard could move it. Somebody brought in a CAT D9 and that wouldn't budge it, so they tried two. That didn't work either. It had to be drilled and blasted into pieces those D9's could move. People think moving to the mountains means having solid ground under your feet which is largely true, but this taught everyone there are no guarantees in nature. Not near as bad as some of the things y'all have lived through, but that one really sticks out in my mind as the most awesome display of nature's power I've ever seen in person. |
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Posted: 1/28/2023 1:52:54 AM EDT
[#34]
  The Loma Prieta Earthquake October 17, 1989 My family was unaffected. I was one floor below street level in downtown SF when it hit. It sounded like a freight train going by. |
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Posted: 1/28/2023 1:53:24 AM EDT
[#35]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I've seen a lot of the aftermath being a lineman 37 years. Hurricanes, tornadoes, wild fires, flooding. We have never had to deal with it personally. I just spent the last 3 days in Deer Park and Pasadena while our crews picked up wire and replaced poles due to the tornadoes. It was bad but not bad as some I've seen. But 8f you lose your house its about as bad as it gets, and some did. Thankfully my family and I have never had to deal with that type of loss. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/257708/Screenshot_20230127_214744_Gallery_jpg-2688012.JPGhttps://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/257708/Screenshot_20230127_214719_Gallery_jpg-2688016.JPG Couple pics from Deer Park, TX We’ve had some hydro ex trucks chasing Centerpoint around putting up new poles. |
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Posted: 1/28/2023 1:55:18 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.a8ee57251ecc5184258012153e60d21b?rik=cq%2fy7fanzPyU9A&riu=http%3a%2f%2fmedia1.s-nbcnews.com%2fi%2fnewscms%2f2014_42%2f714021%2f141013-earthquake-loma-prieta-kns-02_d56c2ce67afe9dea198cf274420c27a1.jpg&ehk=nus93qhZzq6ZsRUgbWMscAeMesvx0BpIp6R0uWdyF6s%3d&risl=&pid=ImgRaw&r=0 https://www.dailynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/ap89101904491.jpg?w=1280 The Loma Prieta Earthquake October 17, 1989 My family was unaffected. I was one floor below street level in downtown SF when it hit. It sounded like a freight train going by. I still remember watching that come out all week long on the news. Unreal. |
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Posted: 1/28/2023 2:06:25 AM EDT
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I was 5 when Typhoon Freda hit.
I remember as things wound up and the power died, dad finished cooking some dinner on a camp stove. By midnight the roof was stripped and water was pouring in through the ceilings. We huddled in a corner of a bedroom and split at day light. Took hours to go 10 miles to my uncles farmhouse, which survived the winds on the lee side of a hill. We stayed there about a week while my dad and grandpa got the house livable. |
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Posted: 1/28/2023 2:10:06 AM EDT
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Blizzard of 93? I don't know, we don't get much severe weather here in PA. I think Sandy fucked us up a bit, but most of the time hurricanes are weak ass when they get here. A tornado or two?
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Posted: 1/28/2023 2:18:20 AM EDT
[#39]
Hurricane Hugo. 1989.
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Posted: 1/28/2023 2:31:49 AM EDT
[#40]
If you want to live somewhere that is the textbook definition of boring then buy a house somewhere on the north side of Indianapolis. The planets and stars have to align to get a natural disaster, granted that's a good thing though.
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Posted: 1/28/2023 2:32:18 AM EDT
[#41]
Blizzard of ‘78 made every winter at Hohenfels a cakewalk.
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Posted: 1/28/2023 2:32:38 AM EDT
[#42]
St Helens
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Posted: 1/28/2023 3:06:10 AM EDT
[#43]
Quote HistoryQuoted: "Terrible Tuesday" . . . 1979 . . . Five funnels merged into one funnel over a mile wide . . . stayed on the ground for 20 minutes minutes and covered 30 miles . . . 42 dead. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/16397/The_Fujita_Scale_-_Terrible_Tuesday-3-2687899.jpg https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/16397/636287329545030768-79-Tornado-Copyphoto-2687914.jpg Ditto |
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Posted: 1/28/2023 3:07:24 AM EDT
[#44]
I was in the operating room when a tornado went straight up State Street and right past the hospital.
In Salt Lake City. We don't have tornadoes here. |
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Posted: 1/28/2023 3:29:52 AM EDT
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2004 or 2005. It was when 4 or so successive hurricanes came across from the east coast of Florida, hitting Orlando along the way and then went out over the west near Tampa in what was like some sort of weird clockwork schedule.
While the hurricanes themselves weren't anything epic, the aftermath was. We went from everything is fine, to power outages for the entire state with no fix in sight, to 100% everything being closed for a week, to 1-2 days away from people looting and shooting each other in a white middle upper class area of Tampa. |
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Posted: 1/28/2023 3:52:13 AM EDT
[#46]
May 18, 1980. Mount Saint Helens. I was ten, in my home town of Spokane, Washington. We were buried under several feet of ash. No school, no leaving the house for two weeks. Thank God we had just recently gotten cable tv.
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Posted: 1/28/2023 4:33:04 AM EDT
[#47]
Two years ago, we got an unexpected 40" of snow between midnight and dawn. Even for people well accustomed to snow, that was a shocker.
The even bigger shocker was about a week or two later it warmed up and rained, and the entire 40" just disappeared. |
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Posted: 1/28/2023 4:40:08 AM EDT
[#48]
Katrina and Gustav when I lived down in Gonzales, LA.
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Posted: 1/28/2023 4:40:35 AM EDT
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It's supposed to snow 5" tomorrow. That would cause a Bama Boy to soil their britches. We just open up another beer from our snow bank cooler.
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Posted: 1/28/2023 4:42:41 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Ice Storm '98 |
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