| Frederick the not so great | 22 Jun 2016 12:25 p.m. PST |
A typhoon during the 13th World Boy Scout Jamboree in August of 1971. Rode it out on site in a tied down tent with two leaders and another scout. The whole time the other scout was talking about the winds driving something sharp through the side of the tent and killing one of us. Finally told him to shut up and go to sleep. In the morning the camp was a soggy, muddy mess. |
| cfielitz | 22 Jun 2016 12:29 p.m. PST |
-28 degrees F at the South Pole. |
| Khusrau | 22 Jun 2016 5:21 p.m. PST |
Walking the Aonach Egach… about 9 miles ridge walk with no way down. So when a blinding horizontal ice storm came in… suck it up big boy. No choices |
| Old Wolfman | 23 Jun 2016 7:35 a.m. PST |
Had a good sized severe t-storm w/damaging winds and hail around 2-6 this morning come through,possible twister a couple of counties northeast of us. |
| warwell | 24 Jun 2016 2:40 a.m. PST |
A few hurricanes – Andrew, Katrina (it was weak when it hit S Fla), Frances (my imagi-nations continent is named after it link ), Wilma. For me, Wilma was the worst. The eye passed over my home. |
| Supercilius Maximus | 24 Jun 2016 5:15 a.m. PST |
The blizzard of '78 in Massachusetts and the three day ice storm in '98 in Maine. Be sure and let us all know where you're going to be in 2018, ok? |
| Sloth1963 | 24 Jun 2016 8:10 p.m. PST |
Tornado touched down about 100 feet from the culvert I was sheltering in, with a skunk. March of 1976. |
| Old Contemptibles | 26 Jun 2016 4:24 a.m. PST |
Tornado in the Texas Panhandle. Typhoon in the Philippines while deployed on USS Coral Sea. Blizzard while conducting air ops east of the Kamchatka Peninsula. |
| COL Scott ret | 26 Jun 2016 10:50 a.m. PST |
During Ranger School in 1989 my Platoon was stuck on the side of a mountain in Dahlonega GA during Hurricane Hugo. Still remember the Ranger Instructor say how "that was the most deleted deleted deleted miserable night he had ever had". |
| Bashytubits | 27 Jun 2016 11:24 a.m. PST |
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| Apache 6 | 23 May 2017 1:24 p.m. PST |
I've been through hurricanes and blizards. Worst tactically significant was the sandstorm during the March to Baghdad. The sand blew in significant gusts sideways. Tactical effect was pretty interesting, visibility was down to 100 M in daytime. The sandstorm had 'rain' or 'almost mud' inside it that turned a lot of the countryside to muck. That event also had 'weird' effects on VHF radio communications (cutting range significantly but not predictably) and making other comms systems very "iffy?" |
| Choctaw | 23 May 2017 2:33 p.m. PST |
The Wichita Falls, TX, tornado of 1979. |
