What is the coldest or most severe weather you have been in?

Most severe weather I ever been in are a tornado and a hurricane. I actually saw a tornado going in the opposite direction of my parents house when I was a young girl. I will never forget that. It was a small F1 but still I was terrified. I delt with the hurricane out at sea in the Navy. Anyone that's been on a big ship in large tides and strongs will know the ship rocks a lot. It was hard walking around, but at night with the rocking I slept really good. In my lifetime I delt with a lot of tornado's, and three hurricanes. I get dressed like that to take the dog out, I wear my husband's army long underwear, plus sweats, sweatshirt with a hooded jacket. Here lately it dropped 30 degrees in a day so going from 60 something to 30 something during the day to the 20s at night is huge for us. I know what your talking about with Illiniois though, I was stationed at the Great Lakes during the winter. I was told it would be easier on the recruits. I had fun trying to warm my socks up just so I could get them off my feet. Funny, how hair spray freezes your hair fast. So when we got our pictures taken, some of us looked a little wild, lol. It was some what windy that day.

The most severe weather I have been in was when I lived in Florida a couple years ago when it was hit with four hurricanes. Wow! That was insane when we went through one just to have another stirring up in the ocean again! Talk about power! One could feel the power of the weather with each gale came through. I swear the tree across the street was made of rubber. At certain points of the strong winds blowing, that tree would be bending to the point of almost being parallel with the ground! And other trees were yanked up out of the ground like baby weeds that didn't have a good hold into the ground! In some places, it looked like trees were bowling pins and the wind was the bowling ball! It was truly insane and one h3ll of an experience!

The coldest weather I've ever experienced was the lake-effect snow in upstate New York where I was raised. The most severe weather hands down were the typhoons I experienced while being stationed in Japan. Those typhoons were way stronger than most of the hurricanes that come to the Southeast US. With that said, all of the buildings in Japan were structurally sound do there was no damage specifically where I lived (Okinawa).

When I was 17 and lived in mid Ohio we had a blizzard. We lived in a mobile home and Mom had plants and out back we had a small barn and a horse lived there. Well the power went out and we began to get cold. My Dad finally decided we would head over to the neighbors we were friendly and they happened to be close. We stayed there for 3 days til power came back on and the caterpillar cleared the road. We had to carry water up from the sump pump so there would be no basement flooding and we cooked on woodstove. That house with our bodies and woodstove kept it pretty warm. I had to carry water over for my horse and we cold walk over the fence the snow was so deep and packed. When the roads were cleared and we drove down the road the snow was as tall or taller than a semi truck would be. Like a tunnel. That sure is something I will never forget!

It was about 30 celsius below zero, in my home town in Hungary, exactly 20 years ago. Minus 5-10-15 is alright for the winter, but this was way too cold. I actually haven't experienced anything of it: I was in a hospital, where in the room it was 30 degrees plus... But the wildest weather I did run into was on a mountain at the border of Chech Republic (that time it was called Chechoslovakia) and Poland. It was a mountain of 1600 meters, and we were climbing it, fighting with the snow storm... There was a layer of ice on our faces, even the eyes of a girls got stuck together, frozen... But we solved it, she didn't have any problem. By the time we were coming down from the top, the snow and the wind stopped, the Sun came out...

not as extreme as yours im sure, but was pretty scary yesterday with 70mph winds blowing ppl over and tipping buses. not nice at all :( AND i lost my scarf ruined the day

I am origially from Illinois too, and by gosh that is some of the coldest weather ever! I live in California now, and this last week we have record cold and lots of ice too. It has been 19 for the low first thing in the morning....which I realize is not the coldest I have ever experienced! But I have been out for almost 9 years and have really forgotten about all those sub zero temps back in the midwest. I am reminded though how bitter cold it is and how once again I am looking forward to spring...LOL

Hi The COLDEST I have ever experienced myself is when I went to my wifes home town in Ukraine. Sometimes it was a very pleasant Minus 11 !!!! But the Coldest day when we were there was MINUS THIRTY TWO That is correct -32 degrees, without any wind chill factor!! One of the things that EVERY Ukrainian has built into their homes is a thermo-meter. It is built into each house, back and front windows!! The first thing they do in the winter time is to look at the temperature guage to see what clothes to put on!! Seriously!!! When I was there, this is what I put on in the morning............... 1 pair of thermal socks,(to keep the heat in) over the top of these socks a pair of normal woolen socks, and on top of these two pairs of socks a very heavy pair of what we call in England FisherMens socks, huge thick woollen socks!!! 1 pair of thermal long-johns, over the top of these I had 1 pair of underpants My jeans on top of all that! And to finish off my "bottom half" I had an out-size pair of Tuff American Boots. My top half........ A vest, followed by a thermal vest, a Shirt, a Jumper To go out side I would then put on my Leather short coat, followed by my very long over-coat! A huge thick woollen scarf, and my Russian Hat!! It would take half an hour to get dressed to go out!! COLD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You Betcha!

Well I have been to Antartica. so I have seen white out conditions where a person could not see their hand in front of there face. I have also seen tempetures as low as -40 below and that didnt include winchill. Well everywhere down there was within walking distance so there was no driving.

believe it or not, here in southern missouri, in the almost 13 years that i've been here, i have seen the wind chills to -30 degrees...cold enough that it froze the gas lines in the car and it took 4 days for it to thaw out enough to start! THAT taught me a lesson to make sure the gas tank was full when we were expecting weather like that, and to put a can of "heat" in it so that wouldn't happen again!

A few weeks ago we had 4 ft of snow and last week it was 17 below 0*. It has snowed every week for the last 5 weeks, there is supposed to be snow again tonight and more Sunday. this has to be the coldest I've ever been! As far as severe weather, that would have to be when I lived in OK, and anyone who's lived there knows about the green sky. When the sky turns green, there is a tornado coming, I saw several tornadoes in the 6 yrs I lived there. In one I saw a barn fly past my house.

Yep, I remember weather like that. I lived for 12.5 years in Northwestern Ontario (all over the area) and winters were brutal. It was a common occurence in mid-January to be told we weren't going to school because it was too cold to step outside, our lungs would freeze! You literally could not breathe in those temperatures: -50 degrees WITHOUT the windchill. It was even too cold to snow!

I've lived in Michigan all my life, and we used to have a lot more snow back in the day (the 60's and 70's) then we have gotten recently. The coldest temps I remember was about 10 years ago, it was -20 without the windchill, and -60 with it!! (not a typo!!) Yikes!! We had 2 cars at the time, and neither one of them would start as well as most of our neighbors. I had to beg a ride to work for a few days until the temp got to -10 or so. It was sooooo cold, you could feel your skin freezing within seconds!! I'll never forget how freezing it was that winter, or the fact that we had NO wheels because of it! I want to retire to somewhere WARM and BALMY!!

When I first moved To Pa That winter we got hit with a 10 below zero blizzard and we got 8 feet of snow! I eman people here were going crazy i mean there is always snow and coldness here but not liek thta I remeber going outside so i could play in the snow and I was outside for like 5 seconds and i was so cold so i ran inside and it took me liek 20mins to warm up again!

Here in NW PA it gets cold like that too. This winter we were having very mild weather until now and we are in the midst of a blizzard right now! I can remember the winter of 1969 when it was 30 below zero, not counting the windchill. There was no way you could go outside without a scarf to breath through, and your eyelashes would get ice cycles in them from your tears! When it is cold like that it makes your eyes constantly tear. Any exposed skin would get frost bit in very short time. And then I think it was 1975 or 76 we had a storm that through 5' of snow on us over night! It was unreal! When the roads got opened we went around taking pictures of the tops of stop signs sticking out above the snow! That's all you could see! It was beautiful, but also deadly.

I live in colorado and survived the blizzard of 2006. In my city we got 36" of snow, most of it hasn't melted yet. Last week we went through a very cold front were it was -5 degrees out at night. I am originally from RI, so I am used to the cold weather, but its just plain freezing here!

Where I live here in texas it rarely gets down to freezing. The coldest that I can remember was years ago when it got down to 7 degrees above zero. I used every quilt that i had and still I felt very cold. I really do not like cold weather.

Living in Michigan, the coldest I have exoerienced has been about 20 below. I have slept outside in Wisconsin in 10 below weather. The last big snowstorm was in 1974 with almost 2 feet of snow.

our coldest season maybe is still your warmest weather, i live in a tropical country where all through the year the temperature normally stays at the 30 degress centigrade mark, my coldest by far is about 22 degrees, yeah it is still hot, i know, but that is our coldest here. Severe weather for me was last 1998 when a very strong typhoon named "gading" struck our humble province uprooting almost every single tree and cable post. it took more than a month to restore power line and communication line as well, fooding killed a number of people and our place was put under and state of calamity, destroying billions of properties most of which are agricultural. the memory of gading always reminds me of how nature could destroy in an instant the things we have been put into place in in instant. scientist warn again that numerous strong typhoon will be still coming to us becuase of global warming, when the temperature of sea levels gets higher, we should expect stronger typhoons.

I was living in Oklahoma in May of 1999 when the stormed that caused all the tornados in Oklahoma City blew over our house. We didn't get the tornados, but we got golfball size, if not bigger, hail. Like with a lot of these storms it happened just as we were getting off of work at 5 o' clock. My son was just 7 monthes old at the time, and I had just got him out of his car seat and in the house. Next thing I know the hail was pounding down hard on the roof, and the tornado alarms were going off. It went from a perfectly sunny day to that just like that. It was just me and my son, so I took him and hunkered down in the bathroom. He was really having a fit from all the noise. After it all passed, we walked outside and it was just tree limbs on the ground everywhere. Thankfully, nothing of ours was damaged. I really count my blessing for that. Not everyone was so lucky that day though.