bigruss

I don't know I got caught in that storm on saturday on my little jon boat. Had problems with my outboard on my way back. Lighting was hitting down everywhere we pulled to the nearest land right there before the channel going to sunset ramp. We parked the jon boat far away from us and we were clinged to the rocks watching lighting smack the water.. Pretty damn scary lol.. You might have seen us(3 guys paddling a jon boat back to sunset)

sniper

Today tops my list. After the air show a storm came in that brought fear to me for the first time on the water. We left after the air show andby the time we got under Bob Sikes all hell broke loose. Visability was 5 feet in front of the boat and there were boat all over that were dead in the water or too scared to move. The water was rough but the lightning was the scariest. I felt the hair raise up on my neck a few times them BAM lighting not 50 yards from us over and over again. I knew we were gonna get hit. I can handle 10 footers in a boat if I can read them. But lightning is too unpredictable. It was very scary. I put the kids in he cabin and April and I stayed at the wheel. We got hit with hail and rain all the way back to Bayou Chico. Idiot boaters almost hit us a few times not paying attention to where they were going. I had to make sudden turns to avaoid them with my horn blazing then I get the sudden realization look after they see they were gonna wreck. I was never so happy to make it back to land. The show was awsome but I would have gave it up if I knew what was coming after ward. I hope everyone made it back ok. It was nasty. Thank You to all my friends that called to check on us!

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PompNewbie

Hurricane Ivan was hands down the worst for me and my family.. We live in a above grade house that was built in the 40's and during the buildup we decide to go to her moms house (2 houses down from us) since they have a brick house w/ a foundation...come to find out her brother and thier 3 kids had the same Idea....

So we have7 adults and 7 kids in a 3 bedroom house with no power and the windows rattleing so bad some of them are crying..not fun

One of the Adults is my wifes 80 yr old grandmother (who is all juiced up on snuff and a pharmicutical enhancment) and she is wired for sound ..keep in mind its pitch black in the living room where we are all huddled and every 5 min she would flick on her flashlight , nerves were on edge and after about the 12 time of seeing lights and loosing our vision my wife threatened to turn her into a firefly if she turned it on again...

Couple of hours before the end of it in the wee morning hours there was a loud crash and the house shook like it was getting ready to leave the ground pictures fell off the walls and everyone was screaming whille me and my wife covered our kids with our bodies.

After that passed I got up and moved to the front door *its around 5am* I open the door and its black as night I cant see anything I turned on a flash light and Im staring at the root ball of a 100 yr old oak tree that was in my father in laws front yard the ball was about 10-12 foot high and around,the house shaking was when it fell...the tree was around 6 ft in diamater and when it hit the ground it landed on his chainlink fence post which went all the way through the tree.. The tree went all the way across the road and took the rain gutter off my brother in laws house but otherwise his house was un-damaged.

The worst part was the realization that if the tree had fell the other way we would all have died.

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bamasam

Typhoon Omar while in Guam, the only thing woorse was going through the North Atlantic in the middle of winter on ship.