30 Extreme And Crazy Weather Examples From The Past, As Shared On This Twitter Page

And her father was one of the men who went to dig it out. By hand!!

The Long Winter

I loved those books as a young girl and grieved so hard when I read the last one.

I recall an episode where the kids were sent home early with no prior notification to the parents. Then the kids got caught in the snowstorm and all had to be found, rescued and brought back to the school to. I think some went to severe hypothermia and I believe one died.

I love those books

I just Googled it (before I saw your comment) and yes. This was referenced in Little Town on the Prarie

Yeah I remember reading that too

Probably this many. usx-63cbf4...b84cac.jpg

Yeah, I saw people on TV saying they'd lost almost everything for the third time. They still live there. Wtf?

Im in Canada, the whole US is a big nope for me.

I’m from the US, and say nope to living in the region of my country known as “Tornado Alley”. NOT meant to offend people who do live there. Just saying it’s not for me. I wouldn’t live along the southeastern coast, either, because of hurricanes. I can handle snow. I can even handle earthquakes, believe it or not. But tornadoes and hurricanes terrify me.

In the UK it's hard for us to comprehend. Even with our worst storm we were shocked because trees fell over and crushed a few cars. Trying to imagine winds so strong they are picking up cars is hard to imagine. There is part of me that would love to see it in real life, but also part of me that says stay out of harms way.

Ooh I wonder. I for one find them mesmerizing and kind of beautiful in a terrifying powerful way. Obviously the destruction is terrible and I hate them for that reason but I like watching them. But I’ve lived in tornado alley half my life so I don’t think my opinion counts

People IN the US look at these and think "nope!". Lol I'm on the west coast and had a friend say the other day she would never live where there are tornadoes. Had to remind her of the fact that we live in a valley surrounded by volcanoes and get earthquakes. Lol

I live in Canada, just outside the tornado alley area. We get some tornadoes in Manitoba but usually they're weak, or don't go past "funnel cloud" classification. Tornadoes are still not that common and there are people who still don't believe any big towns and cities here would ever get a tornado due to their own misconceptions about wind flow physics and just over not ever seeing one. I hear you could live in tornado alley your whole life and not ever see a tornado.

i bet they do. Tornado Alley is expanding, too.

We get used to where we are. I live in the UK, and the current government has purposely mismanaged the public healthcare system so that privatisation look like a better choice. The delays and inadequacy kills more than 500 people a week. Far more than tornadoes in the US. But we just accept it.

I don't understand how people can live in tornado alley

I do! Den Ver.

That's a better explanation

...or whatever was IN the water.

It was “punch buggy” for me.

Hate to break it to you, but it was definitely played well before the 90s. 😄

Still played where I live, and they're common enough that it's mainly done with yellow ones.

My sister called it punch buggy. And she always got me with her knuckles deep into my arm. Even in her 50s, she did it

We called it punch buggy!

I played a similar game where any time you saw an out of state license plate you had to punch someone and say the name of the state.

We played this in the 70's. I remember because I was the youngest of 3 brothers which meant I got to sit in the middle of the station wagon bench seat. Couldn't see out of the windows and got it from both sides.

We still have that here in brazil!

In my youth, I heard "bug safety".

Yeah that game is way older than VW beetles. You just pick a car or really anything that might be seen on a road. Even cows would do. My parents played it as kids iirc. We called it punch buggy in the 1980s.

"Slug bug, no slug backs!*

had to explain to my niece and nephew that they had to slug someone when they play, not just say slug bug. waiting for my younger sister to find out and kill me lol

Have you ever seen grind? That is the only time I heard slug bug lol would lead to fist fights between friends to land their slugs lol

What does this have to do with a Blizzard ?

Did you ever play Slogs? If someone was heard to fart those close by could quickly call "slogs" and hit the farter. Unless the farter called "No Slogs" quickly enough (and was heard).

Definitely not. It hit indiana hard and we're not close to Boston at all!!!

YUP! I was in Bloomington!

Looks like they might be standing in the top of a cellar. Plenty of time. If it's not a cellar, then there's nowhere to run, anyway. Might as well snap a photo!

but take a picture first!

For those who don't know, or who forgot, a 'haboob' like this is what downed the helicopters in the Iran hostage rescue attempt in 1980.

Are we allowed to say haboob again? I have a hard time keeping track of all the offensive stuff.

Isn't that a great word?

It's just a dust storm. It doesn't need a fancy name. Just a lot of dirt in the air.

"Wanger of God"

Which finger?

When God really doesn't like someone.*smash* oopsie God got mad..

Nice reference I got it!