Most of the nation has experience some sort of severe weather over the past few weeks. If you have any stories, please share them! I'll share mine here.

Mine start on Thursday, May 29. My parents and siblings went to Indiana for a wedding, leaving me by myself, as I had to work. Mom told me we were expecting bad weather, so I should go to my grandparents' house. I went over, and there are already tornado warnings out west. Throughout the night, we hear these storms are moving closer and closer. Eventually, they're 50 miles out, moving toward us at 60 mph. I decide we need to go and grab the dog (my parents left him with me), and bring him over. If there's a tornado, the only place he can go is in the shed, which is no protection.

So we go pick him up and get him over to my grandparents at around 7 pm. 7:35, the tornado sirens go off for the first time in 11 years. Now, to most people, sirens mean get to safety. To my grandparents, they mean let's go see if we can see the tornado. So we're all outside looking, and not finding it. My dad called a few minutes after they killed the sirens, to see if we were alright. While I'm talking to him, I look out the window to the southeast, and I see the funnel cloud, bringing my total number of funnel cloud sightings to 3. Later that night, we had a few more storms, but nothing that bad.

The rest of my stories are pretty much the same: severe warnings, hail, and heavy rain. The rivers around here were all out of their banks, but have since gone back down, and will hopefully stay that way for a while.

How about everybody else? Do you have severe weather stories from these past few weeks?

That IL tornado that happened a few weeks ago - you know, the tornadoes that hit Richton Park, Monee, Manhattan, Crete, University Park, etc?

Those weren't too far from my mother's house. In fact, a funnel formed only a few feet shy of her house. They just got their windows replaced.

It was reported in the news (I think it was a week ago?) that a tornado hit a camp in Iowa where some boyscouts were camping. Four boys were killed, and dozens were injured. Anyway, that happened just south of where I live, and that same storm produced a tornado just after going by our town. -_-" It was pretty horrifying, that and seeing something so close to home on international news. >.>

Well no tornade stories here. We luckily don't have those in the Netherlands.

Just... extreme drought lol. We haven't had proper showers here for at least two months. Together with wind coming from the east the past week (which increases the drying process) we're really starting to see and feel the effects of it now. Grass is already starting to get yellow, there are more and more fires starting in forests/nature areas. And the worst, farmlands full with crops, corn and flowers haven't gotten enough water anymore.

The weirdest thing is that the Netherlands isn't big, and the drought is only happening in the north (where I live) of our country.

It's expected this summer will become one of the dryest in... 30 years, and they aren't expecting enough rain in the coming weeks/moth to overcome the dryness of the ground (I think it should at least rain here for 3 days straight before the ground has enough water in it again).

So it pretty much sucks.

Well. xD

We've had several thunderstorms over the last few weeks -- a tree fell onto our house, but thankfully it didn't go through the roof. We had to get people to come over and remove it. |D

Lost of thunderstorms here too. And there were tornado warnings a few weeks ago. It was pretty scary; they used the official town siren and everything. I've lived here my entire life and had never heard it before. Lol.

I think one of the thunderstorms messed up a power station. The other night the power kept flickering on and off, even though the weather was fine at the time. Apparently the electricity was messed up through at least three counties.

Nothing recently... which in itself is weird, since we usually get A LOT of rain where I live. Very unusual. It'll probably pick up during Tropical Storm and Hurricane season though... :sweat:

Tropical Storm Allison in 2000! I live near Houston, and it flooded so bad. A park just two blocks from my house was completely under water. They have picnic tables made out of steel, and the water was so deep and powerful that it scattered them into the intersection outside the park.

And of course, Hurricane Rita in 2005. It wasn't that bad when it hit though, like a Category 3? IDK. What I remember is that I went outside when the hurricane was "over" us and it was just a breeze, haha. But so many people evacuated since it was so soon after Hurricane Katrina, and the streets were clogged up and stuff. Our neighbors went to San Antonio to evacuate; the drive takes 3 or so hours normally, but it took them 18 hours to get there because of traffic. They said they saw dead pets and people get sick on the side of the road because they'd run out of water/gas. :[

Also, several years ago my mom and I were riding our bikes around the neighborhood, and we turned into a cul-de-sac where a lot of activity was going on. Turns out a small tornado had hit a house! This was only like 2 blocks from me! It only hit that house though, very weird...

A few years back I was in a tornado that hit LaPlata MD. I was at a friend’s place working on a class project and a tornado came through town. Things started to get crazy and the house was shaking so we ran out onto the screened in porch, next thing we knew the house was 3 doors down and only the porch and back door was standing.

Needless to say I have issues with storms and tornados.

There was that time when I was around eight or nine and a tornado hit my home area...in southern PA. It was weird, but quite terrifying, since we were driving through the storm at the time. My family travels to South Carolina every year and we've experienced lots of severe weather there. There was that time when we had to leave early because of a hurricane (and subsequently spent sixteen hours in highway traffic), and that time we had to rush off the beach and take shelter in a local Home Depot because of a tornado. And yet, storms have never bothered me. Maybe it's because dad used to take us out on the porch and watch lightning storms...ha. :pink:

No severe weather down here where I live...just SEVERELY ANNOYING WEATHER!!!

I washed and waxed my car ($22.00!!) and 24 hours later OUT OF NOWHERE...it rained and not only did it rain, it poured so hard I could hear the drops on the roof of the building where I worked...rain in the middle of June in Arizona...i must have spent money on a good carwash :angry:

A week or so ago, I had my graduation party and had friends and relatives over. It began raining, so we all went inside and continued with the party. Then the tornado siren went off. I don't remember ever hearing it before and it took us a while to realize that it was the tornado siren. My grandmother, who had been worried about it raining on my party seemed pretty calm about the tornado siren...as did most of the guests at my party, as we continued what we were doing and ignored the siren. (For some of the people that was best, as a few had a bit of a drive to get to my house in the first place.) Nothing happened, besides jokes that my sister needs to plan her graduation party around an earthquake or something to be on the same level as mine.

We've also had several cases of hail, including one when I went for a job interview. Running through hail is not fun, but it's not the worst thing in the world.

Damn do I miss the storms! I'm from Indiana and I moved to New York. FYI, New York S U C K S if you like storms. Especially western NY.

There is nothing prettier then sitting out on your porch/deck and watching the storms coming. It's so flat that you can basically see everything. The way the rain seems to move in a line across the fields and how the birds hide in the trees right before a severe one. The lightning flashing in one cloud to another. It's very beautiful.

But it can be scary.

I was in I believe third grade and my sister and I just got off the bus. We were walking home. My sister hit my shoulder and pointed up asking me what it was. I looked up and there was my first funnel. I freaked out. I paused for a second, watching it twist and flip in the clouds. It was really low to the ground. We bolted home. At nine and six, you're nearly about to wet yourself. The funnel hit in a field outside of our small community for a second before dodging back up. Needless to say, my parents were not too happy with the nickel sized hail that hit their brand new truck. xD

And here is one thing I realized while living out here.

A storm is not a storm unless it has a Severe Thunderstorm Warning and a Tornado Watch.

We had two HUUUUUUGE thunderstorms last night where I live at about 1 and 3 in the morning, and we never get thunderstorms. I mean, ever. I live in the most mild-weathered place in the world, and the only thing it ever does is rain. It was pretty exciting.

I heard it hailed somewhere in Michigan during a thunderstorm last night! 8D

...in July.

It hailed here in Oregon during our thunderstorms.

I didn't know there was hail in those storms! I'm in Oregon too. But yeah, freaky thunder last night. At frist I thought it was the neighbors setting off very, very, very, very illegal fireworks.

So...today we had a pretty bad Thunderstorm here. Power outages and everything. Tonight, I was watching the news and found out that not 10 miles away from my house a family of four was struck by lightening. All four of them. Their teenage son died instantly, and the other three are currently in the hospital.


And to think i was actually in the shower when the lightening started...How scary is that? I feel terrible for the family. :(

^^ that is scary :S