https://padlet.com/lcapolino/bnqwi27mbt33 Personal Weather Stories: Have YOU ever been in severe weather? Where were you? Describe the experience? If you have never experienced severe weather, ask family members to share a severe weather experience. en-us 2017-01-24 22:15:13 UTC 2025-10-25 12:15:45 UTC hello@padlet.com lcapolino https://padlet.com/lcapolino/bnqwi27mbt33/wish/149188733 Answers to questions]]> 2017-01-24 22:21:32 UTC https://padlet.com/lcapolino/bnqwi27mbt33/wish/149188733 https://padlet.com/lcapolino/bnqwi27mbt33/wish/149690692 I was in San Diego and it was flooding a few years ago. I could not leave the house be cause my street was flooded. I could see outside my window and the street looked like a rolling river


Max's Comment: Wow! I don't remember that but it must've been scary!]]> 2017-01-26 17:46:25 UTC https://padlet.com/lcapolino/bnqwi27mbt33/wish/149690692 nwornovitzky2023 https://padlet.com/lcapolino/bnqwi27mbt33/wish/149777205 When I was in Los Cabos, there was a Category 4 hurricane called Hurricane Odile. It was really scary because at first I didn't know what was happening. Also, they told us it was safe to go back to our rooms (we were in a hotel) and sleep in our beds, but apparently it wasn't because a window exploded on my brother and I. We had to sleep curled up on the bathroom floor for the rest of the night. When we went outside, it was shocking to see the damage. I saw many people's destroyed houses, and most of the area was in ruins. Luckily, there was a convenience store about two miles away, and we had to walk there for food when the hotel ran out of rations. Our friends and family back in San Diego were worried, since they had heard about the hurricane but didn't have any way to contact us and see if we were okay.

Bea: Wow that sounds really scary! Did any of you get hurt? Natalia: We got a few cuts and bruises from falling items/ breaking windows, but nothing major.

Sussan: That must have been terrifying. Like you guys didn't know what was going to happen!]]> 2017-01-26 22:26:19 UTC https://padlet.com/lcapolino/bnqwi27mbt33/wish/149777205 https://padlet.com/lcapolino/bnqwi27mbt33/wish/149785348 When my mom was an english teacher in Russia the snow was up to her thighs and so compact that it was like ice. It was also -10 to -20 degrees celsius.

-Zach
That's really interesting. I've known your family for years and haven't known that. That either means I'm a bad friend, or the fact never came up. ]]> 2017-01-27 00:01:07 UTC https://padlet.com/lcapolino/bnqwi27mbt33/wish/149785348 edunn2023 https://padlet.com/lcapolino/bnqwi27mbt33/wish/149786825 When I was New Orleans at my aunt's wedding, there was a rainstorm going on, and lightning hit the church I was in. But I've never been in severe weather.]]> 2017-01-27 00:26:46 UTC https://padlet.com/lcapolino/bnqwi27mbt33/wish/149786825 edunn2023 https://padlet.com/lcapolino/bnqwi27mbt33/wish/149787389 My dad was in Hurricane Bell, and my dad's family didn't evacuate even though they were supposed to, and they got food and water to last for a week when the electricity went out. They had candles and wood for fire and games. They parked their car on a bridge to avoid it being hit by the flood. The rain felt like bee stings. The rain was going sideways.

Harrison Maronde -- Wow why they evacuate?]]> 2017-01-27 00:35:27 UTC https://padlet.com/lcapolino/bnqwi27mbt33/wish/149787389 smeza2023 https://padlet.com/lcapolino/bnqwi27mbt33/wish/149789296 About a year ago, my dad had picked me up from school after some heavy rains. An airport by our house had been flooded out, and there was lots of traffic, so my dad decided to take another route home. Luckily, we were in a taller car, so our motor wasn't damaged. We saw lots of people stuck in their cars in the middle of the roads who were surrounded by water and couldn't get out. There was tons of traffic, too. All of the streets looked like rivers. My dad thought we weren't going to make it home and would have to stop for a while at my mom's office, but we made it through the flood by driving on higher streets, and our motor was fine.
Claire Harutunian:
Glad you made it home! I like your descriptions!]]> 2017-01-27 01:05:18 UTC https://padlet.com/lcapolino/bnqwi27mbt33/wish/149789296 https://padlet.com/lcapolino/bnqwi27mbt33/wish/149791224 A few years ago, I was inside doing homework and I look outside and it was hailing, a few minutes later it was hailing so hard and  it was quite loud inside. When I went outside after the hale storm, there were huge sized hale things and I was glad I wasn't outside when the storm was going on. That is my Severe Weather experience.

Was anyone you know hurt from the hailstorm? Was anyone's property or car damaged?-Ethan]]> 2017-01-27 01:38:33 UTC https://padlet.com/lcapolino/bnqwi27mbt33/wish/149791224 charutunian2023 https://padlet.com/lcapolino/bnqwi27mbt33/wish/149793421 When I was in Bermuda when I was about 4 1/2 there was an hurricane coming. It was called I remember being on the beach and it suddenly starting to rain very hard. When we turned on the TV, it was the top headline story in the country. We (my parents) released that are flight was in the evening that day, and that they would probably close the airport because of the wind before then. They made calls to the airport and after a while, they got us on to a flight back to San Diego. We were on the last flight out before they closed the airport. When we were taking off, the plane was going back and forth, and being blown around by the wind, which was scary. After we left, right as the main part of the hurricane was about to hit, the storm suddenly feared away. This was very lucky for everyone stuck there.

Scarlett: Woah! It sounds very scary, especially the airplane part. Why was it the top headline in the country if it was just raining very hard?

]]> 2017-01-27 02:12:29 UTC https://padlet.com/lcapolino/bnqwi27mbt33/wish/149793421 bcole2023 https://padlet.com/lcapolino/bnqwi27mbt33/wish/149794979 A few years ago when I was in Aspen-Snowmass there was snowstorm when I was skiing. I couldn't see someone about 4 or 5 ft. in front of me! Then I had to ski down the mountain and it was really scary because you couldn't see. Also, on our way to Aspen, my family's flight got delayed because of a snow storm, and we were stuck in Denver. Eventually, we got a flight to Eagle-Vail and then drove to Aspen from there. Now we do that every year.]]> 2017-01-27 02:39:58 UTC https://padlet.com/lcapolino/bnqwi27mbt33/wish/149794979 https://padlet.com/lcapolino/bnqwi27mbt33/wish/149800784 My dad was once in Minnesota and he was in temperatures that dropped to -35° and wind that reached 30 miles per an hour, at that wind speed the wind chill could drop as low as -67°. People where warned not to go outside with exposed skin for more than ten minutes to avoid frostbite.
Chloe Comment--
That sounds crazy, that was really cold and dangerous weather. --I would not want to have been there. Did anyone end up getting frostbite ]]> 2017-01-27 04:55:18 UTC https://padlet.com/lcapolino/bnqwi27mbt33/wish/149800784 https://padlet.com/lcapolino/bnqwi27mbt33/wish/149801332 Once I was coming back from an indoor soccer tournament. It has been raining hard all day, but when we got outside the streets were flooded to about my shins. It was really cold crossing the street and a little scary because the water would flow down really fast and could knock you over.

Alexa Ortiz: I really like the description of how the rain fell so hard and how the water was up to your shins. The only thing I would say is that you never said where you were (San Diego, somewhere else?)]]> 2017-01-27 05:13:27 UTC https://padlet.com/lcapolino/bnqwi27mbt33/wish/149801332 cbell2023 https://padlet.com/lcapolino/bnqwi27mbt33/wish/149969975 It was a few years back in Lake Tahoe and there was a huge hail storm. It was the first time I had seen hail and it was crazy.  We put out buckets to see how much hail we got, and almost all of the buckets were full.


Sarah- wow that sounds fun (when you are not the one who has to pay for damage)]]> 2017-01-27 18:47:04 UTC https://padlet.com/lcapolino/bnqwi27mbt33/wish/149969975 https://padlet.com/lcapolino/bnqwi27mbt33/wish/149969984 Last year there was a major rain storm.  During the middle of the night  the thunder was so loud that it woke up my whole house my sister thought we were being bombed (we were reading a book on the Hitler bombing). She woke up screaming at 11:30 pm. The lighting obviously has no sound but it was very bright

Charlotte Comment
Wow! The part about your sister is funny. But the rain storm sounds scary.

]]> 2017-01-27 18:47:06 UTC https://padlet.com/lcapolino/bnqwi27mbt33/wish/149969984 https://padlet.com/lcapolino/bnqwi27mbt33/wish/149970108 A couple years ago I went to Yellowstone on one of those National Geographic trips, and we were on a bus going back to the lodge. All of a sudden there was a blizzard and we couldn't even see out the window of the bus. It was scary at first, but when we got out of the bus, the ground was full of fresh, white, snow!

Nicky's comment: That seems very scary, I like how you mentioned that you couldn't see through the window ]]> 2017-01-27 18:47:33 UTC https://padlet.com/lcapolino/bnqwi27mbt33/wish/149970108 https://padlet.com/lcapolino/bnqwi27mbt33/wish/149972215 Me and my family went to Mammoth two years ago and there was a blizzard. Mammoth got 11 inches over those days. When we went to ski, all the lifts were closed. And we couldn't ski all Christmas break.
 Christian's comment - That sounds fun, do you know how many feet of snow there was.   ]]> 2017-01-27 18:54:41 UTC https://padlet.com/lcapolino/bnqwi27mbt33/wish/149972215 cfoote2023 https://padlet.com/lcapolino/bnqwi27mbt33/wish/149973140 Once about a year ago, there was major flooding by my house and my front porch got flooded with rain but it was early in the morning so we couldn't do anything about it. Then we had to go to school and I had to walk all the way across campus in pools of water, and then my backpack with all my stuff in it fell of and got soaked.

David- That was unlucky about your backpack. Hopefully your homework was ok]]> 2017-01-27 18:57:32 UTC https://padlet.com/lcapolino/bnqwi27mbt33/wish/149973140 nwornovitzky2023 https://padlet.com/lcapolino/bnqwi27mbt33/wish/149974055 When my mom was seven years old she lived in Mexico. She lived up a hill and her place did not flood but anything that was down the hill flooded and was covered in palm trees

Natalia
Wow! That sounds scary.. She was lucky to live on a hill though.

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