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@GentlemanClam

Yeah, those flood waters can really catch you off guard. What the NWS always say is "Turn around, don't drown." You never really can judge how deep water is, so it's best to be careful!

@bravehawk204

A few years ago, a couple of gustnadoes (weak tornadoes that form differently than regular tornadoes) came through my town, and caused some minor damage like what you described (well, maybe a bit worse; the next entire day was spent picking up branches). Also, the local Casey's lost part of its roof and marks were left on the top of the Fire Station from the gustnadoes swirling the rocks there. It was a crazy few days!

Ugh. It's 97 here with a heat index of 110. That's pretty bad. D:

That stinks. It was supposed to get up to about 100 where I live, but it didn't. Thank goodness, It would have been unbearable if it did.

Well, Chicago is windy.

That is about it. Never heard of anything different.

Near my house, there were some trees falling. June was very stormy for some reason.

Even now, there is a thunderstorm with hail the size of grapefruits.

@Joe96

Oof. Yeah, 100 would have been nasty. D:

@SwordAndShield

I wonder why they call it the "windy city." :P

@Ghgt99

Grapefruit sized hail?!?! Jeez, that's going to kill someone! D:

Louisiana. Hurricanes. Katrina and Rita.
A tornado will deal massive damage to a small area for a few minutes.
A hurricane will do massive damage to a massive area for days. Katrina stretched from Florida to Mexico and it took it three days to pass over me...

In the past February there was over 20 inches of snow in one day. School was canceled for 2 days.

@Dragonblaze052

Wow. Those images are incredible. You got very lucky when Katrina weakened right before she hit you. Otherwise, I don't want to think about what would have happened. *shudders, not sarcastically at all*

^No seriously, that wasn't sarcasm. It would have been scary had Katrina been stronger. D:

You got very lucky when Katrina weakened right before she hit you.

Ugh. It's 97 here with a heat index of 110. That's pretty bad. D:

It's 110 here but feels like 115 because it is so dry and we have a warm breeze blowing around and it increases our temp

The "bad" weather we're having in central Texas isn't so much weather as a lack thereof. No fun for the 4th this year, the whole state is a tinderbox.

On an unrelated note I'm worried about Monday - my neighbors get crazy with fireworks at nearly every possible opportunity and I could totally see them ignoring the burn ban to fire some off. I'd sort of rather they didn't, this year..

@CalvinKidd137

Yeah, I agree with Dragonblaze052. I know it's hot there, but you have no idea what hot and HUMID is like. You said 110 with a heat index of 115. If it was 110 here, the heat index would be about 125 just because of humidity. And actually being outside? Forget it! I think I could do a dry heat. But humid heat? Ugh, it's awful! It's like someone's taking an invisible blanket and smothering you. It's harder to breath, and you can't cool yourself off because of all the water in the air. It's no fun at all.

Check out this chart to see what it feels like with different temps and humidities.

Jeez, I was wrong! 110 and humid would be over 140 feels like temp! D:

But not to rain on your parade or anything. :P I'm sure dry heat has its own set of severes and extremes, such as wildfires, etc.

My areas weather is known for being bipolar. The weather changes often. One day it's hot, next day it's cold, day after that it's snowing, and after that it'll be hot again. What I consider bad weather for my area is the hot days in the summer. It gets up to 110 degrees in the summer over here, it prevents me from going outside due to how hot it is.