So the past two days have been extremely miserable because Friday evening my state was hit with such a strong hurricane aftermath, I believe, or just simply extremely high pressured winds and rain that it left 70% of the state without electricity with many of the state still out until next Friday possibly. I have many friends and my girlfriend that are still without power in nearby areas. I was lucky to have the power returned to us today.

How many of you guys have had experiences with any kind of natural, weather "disaster"? Whether it be an actual disaster or just some strong force of nature that made it really uncomfortable for you.

LOL I live in Lebanon it s like a perpetual natural disaster XD

power black outs every day

no public transporation

carp roads (full of holes and insane drivers)

Had a tornado come | | <----that close to my house once. It decided to turn the other way thankfully.

In 2009 here in louisville there was horrible windstorm that damaged and took out alot of power. That was only the start because that winter there was bitter cold followed by snow then a severe ice storm taking out power in some places longer then a month.

we had some snow this year (its snowed for 2 days ), power was out for 1 month ....

if a tornado hits in Lebanon we are back to the stone age... LITERARY.... think fallout...

I live in Denmark we don't get any kind of disaters EVER!.....soo boring

It wasn't a hurricane aftermath, just a strong summer storm. Luckily my power was only out for 24 hours after it, but all in all I'm pretty sure there were about 2.5 million homes without power.

Sounds like Lebanon should be another country off of my list. Thinking of a week without power was dreadful.

REALLY strong. Trees falling down and trashcans and laundry baskets were flying through the street when it first started.

I live in Norway and we rarely get any disasters.

Tornadoes, Flooding, crazy zombie like people...

What you got OP was a weather event called a Derecho. A line of storms that came from Illinois bowed out (in what us weather people call a bow echo) and it stretched quite a bit and expanded as it went further southeast which is why it was called a Derecho. Highest recorded winds were 91 mph.

I'll give you a link if you want to find out more information about it.

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/iwx/?n=june_29_derecho

As for me, yeah we get them sometimes, not as often as I'd want. Granted, I don't like people's stuff getting damaged, but I do like the naturalistic destruction of nature and the power it presents when it does do damage. (Trees and the like, not people's homes..but usually with one comes the other so it svcks).

Last year we had one such event when outflow winds from a storm over Lake Michigan came onshore, they were very powerful almost like a downburst. 4-5 miles inland received 50-55 mph winds, as you got nearer to the lake it went up and at the lake it was about 80-90 mph and some places in IL got hit by 120 mph winds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9RT3oODaSU&feature=related That's a video from a place basically out over the lake.

Sadly I went in to work early and didn't get to experience the winds as much as I would have liked, though at work we got about 45-50 mph winds and blowing garbage cans and the clouds were awesome it was a pretty neat experience. After all was said and done my house ( I live close to the lake) lost power for about a day in a half, and my work actually lost power for about 6 hours too. Many many trees were down and I got a lot of pics of it. Sadly one guy did get killed by a falling tree and that's the thing I dislike the most about natural disasters, the loss of life. But no one could have seen this coming as the storm was over the lake and didn't even come on land.

More people should be aware of what might happen when it comes to weather and I'm sure the loss of life..at least for this event that happened on Friday might have been smaller than it was.

Not really a disaster, but the weather is crazy in Cincinnati.

Today it was about 98 degress, then it got cloudy, decided to hail really bad then rain for 10 more minutes. The weather dropped 30 degrees in those 20 minutes, then it rose 15 degrees in another 20 minutes and stayed humid until about 9 pm, then it dropped 15 degrees again.

Eh, I live in Ohio. The weather is almost perpetually crap here (not so much during the summer, but any other time of year...), but the worst I've experienced was about 7 or 8 years ago. We were hit by a pretty big ice storm that shut down the power for about a week, maybe a little more; I can't quite remember how long. What I do remember was having to stay with friends who did have power because it was just too cold to stay in our house. That wasn't even the worst part, the worst part was just getting there. Not much the road crews can do to keep roads drivable when you've got massive amounts of freezing rain and snow.

Could have been a lot worse though. I should be thankful that's the worst I've had to go through personally.