Soaking in the Desert

[Prime_Hunter_H01]

Well, Arizona is currently going through a record breaking rain fall. Roads are closed and impassable, the weather radar has shown the entire east valley of Arizona in green. and about 70% of the state is green covered in a flash flood warning. And being Arizona most of the natives here, including myself, are probably experiencing something like this for the first time. It's kinda cool.

So now I ask what are some stand out extreme weather days from where you guys live.

 

[DefunctTheory]

2 months ago, our house got hit by a freak tornado. It came out of no where. It did this. Only touched down for 15 seconds.

http://s295.photobucket.com/user/ragingbombast/library/Fuck%20There%20Trees

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Root ball about 8-9 feet wide. Tore the deck up.

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Same tree as above.

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Another one.

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Just snapped the damn thing in half.

All told, about 12 tree on our property alone were tore down in roughly 15 seconds. Amazingly, none hit the house.

Other then that, we get really bad ice storms every 4 years. It's pretty though. All the trees get covered in ice, and become so heavy they actually bend in half and almost touch the ground. A bit dangerous though, as you can imagine.

EDIT: Southern Pennsylvania.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Eh, I live in Australia.

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As soon as I realised that I wasn't in the middle of a giant fire, it was sorta cool. Actually, does being in the middle of a giant fire count as weather? Cause that happens every so often to the parts of the country that aren't underwater.

 

[Mr Fixit]

I've got a friend in Phoenix that just texted me to tell me about that, she said her back yard looks like a pool.

About the only freak weather we get here in northeast Tennessee is the ice storms. A quarter of an inch of ice is more than enough to bring everything to a stand still.

 

[NeoSkyte]

Floods are pretty common in Manitoba. I remember back in 1997 (A.K.A Flood of the century) destroyed a lot of towns and cities in the USA and Canada.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Well here in the UK, is pretty much uncommon to have floods these days especially what happen last Christmas/ Spring. Also at the moment we are getting strong winds from time to time aswell.

 

[Prime_Hunter_H01]

Update here in AZ, The mayor of Phoenix and the Governor have declared a state of emergency.

I am actually really lucky that I live where I live because there is a massive retention basin right across from my house, so we were spared some bad flooding. Watching the news there are some shopping centers I have frequented that basically under water, and they are going around seeing people who's houses have been flooded.