Friday Five - Acts of Nature

[ringsandcoffee]

1. Have you ever been in a hurricane or typhoon? Which one, when and where?
2. Have you ever been near an erupting volcano? Which one, when and where?
3. Are there tornadoes where you live? Has a tornado come near you?
4. Have you experienced severe flooding? When and where?

Nope to all of these. We had a pretty severe monsoon storm I think in 2009 or 2010, like the worst one in the 15 years I've lived here. So many trees came down, and power was out in many parts of Phoenix, including my school. The school that was inside and had no windows. Yeah, that was fun.
In 2013, we had flash flooding where it rained all night, and half the streets were flooded. I-10 was flooded downtown. I somehow made it to work, but could have got stuck in a puddle pulling into my school's parking lot. That would have been hilarious.


5. What is the most extreme weather you have ever experienced?
Arizona summers. We're having a record for number of days 110 or higher, but this still isn't as bad as a couple of years ago when it hit 120. They had to ground flights at the airport.

Comments

[ragnarok-08.livejournal.com]

There was flash flooding around where I live just recently.

Here are my answers:

1. Have you ever been in a hurricane or typhoon? Which one, when and where?
Nope, thankfully.

2. Have you ever been near an erupting volcano? Which one, when and where?
None.

3. Are there tornadoes where you live? Has a tornado come near you?
There was one in Illinois years ago, but not where I lived at the time, and there was one in Virginia a year or so ago, but not where I live.

4. Have you experienced severe flooding? When and where?
Not me personally, but close to me is downtown, where a lot of shops and businesses have been flooded recently thanks to thunderstorms and floods.

5. What is the most extreme weather you have ever experienced?
Mostly a derecho years ago, a thunderstorm and a blizzard.

[wendelah1]

Arizona summers. We're having a record for number of days 110 or higher, but this still isn't as bad as a couple of years ago when it hit 120. They had to ground flights at the airport.

I remember that summer, now that you mention it. The pavement was melting.

[meathiel]

I honestly don't know why anyone would want to live in Phoenix at all ... haha ...
Sorry - but 95° is too much for me, I don't even want to imagine 110°!

[zvezda.livejournal.com]

I also don't know why. ;)

[meathiel]

*lol*

[ringsandcoffee.livejournal.com]

Winter. Winter is amazing. It's usually in the 60s during the day, sometimes a few colder spells. I think I've tolerated this summer better because I'm working at home and don't have to go out in the heat that much. When I was still teaching and had to be outside more, yeah, hated that.

[zvezda.livejournal.com]

I think I would take 1-2 days of 120 than 2 months of 110+. This crap is getting OLD.

I have been through so many nuts weather events that this one would be hard for me to do, but I want to try!

[ringsandcoffee.livejournal.com]

Since I'm at home all the time, I think I'm tolerating the heat more than years prior.

[ganimede]

Extreme temperatures seem to be getting more common over the past couple of years. I'm sure I saw something recently which said that Baghdad had recorded temps of over 50°C last week.

There were severe floods here a few years ago which cut off the main road into town so that was pretty scary. The UK doesn't generally get hurricanes or typhoons, although we often get ex-hurricanes or ex-cyclones. We do get tornadoes though they're not as destructive as the ones in the US.