What's the worst thunderstorm you've been in?

[3rdpath]

Went thru many nasty storms while growing up in Texas. I remember squeezing into the laundry room with my family when the tornado warnings blasted out from the local fire station. We lost a lot of shingles, the fence was blown down, hail broke a skylight and our 6ft fiberglass pool umbrella was in a neighbors yard about 150 feet down the street. NTM, all our cars were dimpled like golf balls. Pretty much your typical Texas spring storm...

When I lived on the North shore of Tahoe, I drove thru many a whiteout while going over the MT. Rose Pass...man that got old quickly. Creeping around that winding road, driving mostly by memory because I couldn't see anything and not being able to stop because I'd get rear-ended. Don't miss those winters at all.

 

[JeDiBoYTJ]

Hurricane Wilma. October 24th, 2005.

 

[Roger1]

The scariest for me was about 5 years ago. Iwas driving to the store and ran right in to the tail end of a tornado. I pulled over when the rain got really bad, nervous whe the hail started, scared when I looked up, saw a hole in the sky that was red and green, and had bolts of lightning shooting through it. I drove about 1/2 mile back the way I came to town, and went in the local store.

The plate glass window in the store was about 1-2 inches thick, and had a small crack in the corner. We were all fascinated by the ability of the rain to drive itself through this small crack and flood the floor with water. It was over about 5 minutes later.