Friday Five - Acts of Nature
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ringsandcoffee1. 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.
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.
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Date: 2020-08-15 04:38 am (UTC)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.