Had you ever experienced a storm that made you fear for your life?

[CheertheSecond]

I did last year. It was the first time in my 7 years there that I witnessed the boring landscape of my city turned truly terrifying. Trees were uprooted. Power outages across the city. Disruption of public transport. My accommodation was creaky as the wind blew. I was almost afraid my glass window would give out. It took several days for power to come back and even then other infrastructures took longer to recover.

 

[Hoshino]

Yes-nya.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

A few times, usually snowstorms but we did have a few hurricanes pass close enough by to really mess stuff up

 

[Gray_Mann]

I was going back and forth through Cherokee and Boone in Western NC during parts of Hurricane Helene last year. It got bad. I missed the worst parts of it, and I still came close to screwing up a few times. I missed a mudslide going through the Blue Ridge Parkway by less than 60 seconds. I literally saw parts of the road just vanish underneath a wave of mud and debris sliding down the mountain mere seconds after I passed it by. The wind was bad enough, but the flooding and mudslides basically shut several counties down altogether, with people unable to leave or get in and therefore trapped because many mountain roads just....didn't exist anymore.

I'm from the area and man....nothing has hit that area like that since Hurricane Fran back in 1996.

 

[Alski]

I live in a first world country, so that's a no.

 

[MarikoRawralton]

I think that's only really happened to me once in my life, since I live in a place with relatively stable weather, where one year, it started pouring SUPER HARD, like so bad that it started flooding some parts of my town. I remember my Dad got caught up in it, and I think it happened on a Friday cuz I remember seeing him standing outside under an awning holding pizza and we used to always get pizza on Fridays.

 

[Navillus]

I went tubing in Tennessee when a really bad storm hit… me and my family made it out of the river and when we were looking for some shelter one of those massive trees fell down and almost killed me… I was about 3 feet away from it at the time… granted I was 8 years only at the time so the tree was even bigger from my point of view… nonetheless I have a deep and profound hatred for Tennessee because of that-nyah.

 

[Empress_Omnii]

I'm scared of lightning...
But when thinking logically, no.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Kind of tangential but once I was out riding around with some friends and we saw a tornado funnel cloud. For some reason, the kid driving thought it would be a good idea to follow it, and we DID for about two minutes, before he suddenly stopped the car and said: "What the hell are we doing? What if we caught up to it?"
We all got out of the car for about two seconds to think - and to listen to the winds roaring away out there. Fortunately, that twister never did set down.