i've never experience anything more radical then a minor flood here. (really just a lot of rain and the streets sorta flooded.)

I love it when that happens. I love any weather other than heat, really.

i dislike rain. and to be honest, thunder and lightning andd bad weather frighten me. not the t&l itself, but what could happen. (my paranoia, see.)

Fair enough. I did start to worry about the potential consequences a bit when we bought our own house, because suddenly it was us who'd have to pay for things! I've always loved 'bad' weather (which I see as 'good' weather, 'cause I don't like the heat) since I was a tiny little thing.

y'know, i went through a stage of trying to like rain... i couldn't. i mean, i like to look at it, but then paranoia kicks in, and i start to feel like a thunderstorm.. tornado will happen. ohhhh, and when there was a "tornado warning" i nearly pissed myself. i start to feel sick, and was looking out the windows,. half-expecting there to be a funnel cloud a few miles off.

If you have the potential escalation to worry about then it's a different matter. I know that where I live things won't get worse than heavy rain/wind, so there's not much to worry about. Things sometimes get worse (freeze, minor hurricane etc) but rarely and not for very long.

yeh.. my mom (knowing full well my fear for everything) on the day of this warning, she was off at my grandma's, and she called me and... i don't remember the exact words she used, but something to the effect of "watch out for tornados!" and "if you see a funnel clud, take the dog and cat to the basement!" (sounding very sarcastic and jerkish.) i could have killed her.

We don't think of Canada as having weather like that - we'd think of Canada as cold (or 'nice', if you're me). It certainly doesn't get reported over here.

ahaha. is it not equally as north as the GB?... ** i checked... at parts it is i guess...? anyays, canada, at least where i am, had incredibly hot summers, and very cold winters.

We always hear about hurricanes etc from the more equatorial regions. I'd like to go somewhere with extreme cold - I have a weird metabolism, and I've never felt really cold. But I feel the heat more.

i'm cold right now.

it's cold outside.

Our heating system is finally fixed. I'm toasty. :]

by "cold" i mean 65 degrees F. usually it is 100 degrees outside at this time of year.

Well I'm on the dark side of the earth right now, so yeah.

My parents run the A/C like crazy

where is that?

England.

we're in the same hemisphere, dork. it's dark outside here too.

I am what... 5 hours ahead of you? I get night before you do. Hemispheres have nothing to do with it, dorkette.