re: What is the most intense weather you’ve witnessed?

Only ever expirenced hurricanes as far as worst.

I did experience small rumbles of an earthquake the week before last, but I was far enough away that it just felt like vertigo.

Edit - I totally forgot a tornado hit our house and the entire 3-car carport came down. We were in Florida though so I guess that doesn’t count.

Has to be Katrina..never seen wind like that ever. Watch a huge elm (?) get blown over. I was sitting in the middle of the main building on the second of three floors. The noise coming from the air vents sounded like 50 kids playing out of tune flutes full blast. I will never forget that sound. I was sitting there thinking WTF am I doing here. I pretty thought WTF from Sunday night till Tuesday afternoon when we finally got to BR.

Those Baton Rouge tornadoes back in ‘89 were pretty wild.

I'd have to say the most intense storm was out in the middle of nowhere, Mississippi when I was about 9 years old. We were coming home from vacation and we saw this funnel cloud forming ahead. We stopped at the first place we saw, some hole in the wall restaurant on the side of the highway, and hunkered down. It touched down, could hear the racket, never saw wind and rain like this before. It passed, we were okay, the car was okay, and then went on our way.

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An OT 6 squirter. She gave me a warning so we had sex in the bathroom. That chick sprayed me for 15 minutes. I couldn't believe she had that much liquid in her.

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You got pissed on for 15 minutes. That's impressive.

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I don't think I could ever live in the cold.

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It was not fun after Starkville winters. The first two winters afterwards my vocabulary consisted of only 4 letter words whenever I walked outside. Now instead of mild weather or lots of snow I get to look at dead grass and put up with the annual ice storms.

3 days aboard a ship at sea riding out a typhoon.

I was in Bogalusa during Katrina. Winds were upward of 100mph. The howling was intense, but the worst part was hearing the trees uproot and fall.

Luckily I was in a very secure hospital building. Saw many homes with trees right through the middle of them. If I remember correctly there was only one death in the area, after seeing the damage I was very surprised it wasn't worse.

I remember driving to NOLA for the national championship in bball with kentucky (anthony Davis year) vs Kansas. It was hailing on us on the way there. When we got there it was raining harder than I have ever seen in my life. It was miserable trying to walk around that city during that storm.

A hurricane at Sea. We went through the Eye wall. It was the weirdest thing as,birds by the thousands descended on the ship. Our orders didnt allow is to circumvent the storm due to a very tight timeframe. Itw was brutal with 60 foot seas and 90 foot swells. When hitting a wave head on, a stream of water would shoot from the bull nose strait up to the bridge windows. We actually went through some swells and the bridge itself went totally dark as we were going THROUGH the water. On the more intense impacts, the1 bulkhead behind us was buckling like an empty beer can. The impact into the waves would make the whole ship shudder. At one point, we were tossed sideways and ended up in a 49 degree roll. You could basically walk unattended on the wall. I believe at 52 degreees the masts and gun turrents are designed to pop off to keep it from capsizing. It was a 600 foot long Spruance class destroyer. I loved that ship, especially for the way it handled that beating. It's a damn shame it was intentionally sunk to become an artificial reef. My captain was an old salty dog with 30 plus years at the time. I asked him if he had experienced anything like this. His answer, this is the worst I've ever seen son. At that point, my taint closed up as tight as a vice clamp. It was a crazy experience.