Oh, well, if we're going to talk about the worst storms we've seen in our lifetime, let's see...
Last year, we had some of the worst weather I had ever seen: in February, we had a sudden freak thunderstorm that put a vast majority of the city in feet of water... it's not everyday you turn on the news and see footage of a dumpster floating down main street. On a Monday in April, we had another freak thunderstorm that was a lot worse: the clouds were as dark as coal, the winds howled like a hurricane, sheets of rain poured down, trees were knocked down all over town... THEN we learned that was just a preview of what was to come, as that wicked system that was working it's way all week long through the southern half of the U.S. was expected to hit us by the following Thursday, which it did, almost all normal programming on the local channels was pre-empted for live weather coverage: we had torential rains, high winds, hail in some spots, it was a mess. The power didn't go out for either of those two occasions, but then at this exact time last year, yet another sudden and extreme thunderstorm blew through, knocking down more trees, and this time, it DID knock the power out for almost the entire town for hours, it was the largest outage in our utility board's history, not only that, but that particular storm also caused a lot of damage to my aunt and uncle's house, and they just recently FINALLY got most of the damage fixed (insurance companies are wonderful to work with).
They were saying on the news when all of that extreme weather was happening that in the next twenty to thirty years, that kind of extreme weather will actually be NORMAL, and that the new extreme weather will be even worse. Scary.