What natural phenomenon have you experienced/witnessed?

The hurricanes are never very exciting by the time they get to New England, but I've seen a couple.

the aurora borealis is the most amazing thing I have ever seen in my life.

thunderstorms, forest fire :(, flood, hail storm (about a week ago as a matter of fact), meteor shower, shooting star, drought, blizzard.. most of them back home in Ohio

What about SUPERnautral phenomenon?

What's St. Elmo's Fire?
Oh, and can you believe that I saw a shooting star after my very first kiss! It was so movie-esque. I was convinced I found my prince charming. Unfortunately, that guy was a dud, but you know, it's to be expected.

sat through many thunder storms....experienced at least 3 hurricanes...we get them yearly on the east coast....seen several shooting stars...and every time i think to myself, i say self (not out loud), "man...it looks so small...but that is a big ass star, prolly as big as the sun...slowly burning up....very cool,"...that's what i think :)

oh yeah...i forgot about our tiny hail storm....

pandora...the first time they and i kissed...fireworks went off in the background...i crap you not...it was too funny...and out of the ordinary...it was Thanksgiving...who in the hell would've been shooting firworks on Thanksgiving?..go figure

love these questions !!!!

You forgot "plague of locust".
ferretlover, you are hot tonight - nice run of surveys!

I saw a total solar eclipse last year.

magbast... um.... -- naw, why should I spoil it -- forget it.

You forgot "plague of giant monsters". :)

Did you hair stand on end?

Lunar and solar eclipses (total and partial),
Halo around the sun (arctic phenomena), green
flash at sunset, and a triple rainbow.

pandora: St. Elmo's fire is ball lightning.
on an aside.. I have watched lightning flickering across a field, that was way spiffy. I very much enjoy a good thunderstorm, especially being out where I can watch the lightning. I think it goes a bit far to applaud, but I have done so.

St. Elmo's fire is not at all the same thing as ball lightning. St. Elmo's fire looks like a glowing sphere, but it remains affixed to whatever pointy conductor triggered its existence. Ball lightning shoots around. They have totally different generative mechanisms.

hey reality..could you answer a question to settle a dispute between they and i...you have 10 websites...right?

also, do you live in your grandmother's basement?

we seem to disagree on who you are exactly, and if you could answer these questions..it would clear it up..thanks

magbast, I think the basement and 10 web pages thing is Brian. Also, lots of cats...

then they was/is right :(

when are you going to get used to that? ;)

once out of hundreds of times...and now you're cocky...hmmmm

you leave me no choice....

they insists that Russia is a continent...can anybody confirm that i am right in saying that it is a country?

magbast, you have much to learn...

anon...care to teach me...i promise to be a good student...maybe you can teach me to be a pussy...ok?;)

Russia is a country, at the moment. It's mostly in Asia, although part of it is in Europe. I'm not going to get into an argument about why those are considered two separate continents.

Solar and lunar eclipses. And a very cool conjunction of Jupiter and Venus about 2 months ago.

i think i saw (and heard, a few minutes later) a meteorite fall out of the sky last night.

eris, that was a cool conjunction

magbast: I have 0 websites.. because I am a luddite... 8)
actually I am too lazy to get one and don't feel I need one, who would want to visit it? I live in an apartment with two friends (haywire and logan). I am part of the MA/former WPI crowd that is here.
anymouse: thanks for the clarification on the difference between ball lightning and st.elmo's fire.

A couple earthquakes where the house shook quite a bit...one as a small child (Seattle-1966, I think) and one just a couple years ago. Nothing catastrophic.

Saw snow fall in the middle of San Francisco. Touched it too...

That's a rarity, isn't it? Probably about as strange as when it snowed in San Antonio, Texas when I lived there. An inch of snow, and the whole city shut down!

bill: magbast, I think the basement and 10 web pages thing is Brian. Also, lots of cats...

ONE webpage, forced to live in basement after gambling addict aunt moved in and stole my room, ONE cat. Patch is her name. She's a Calico.

I stood outside a smoked a cigarette during Hurrican Irene. That was fun. I have never, ever, ever seen a shooting star. :( I always just miss them. I don't think they really exist. They were made up so people could say "Hey, Mariah, did you just see that shooting star?" and then laugh at me.

Apparently you don't spend nearly enough time staring up at the night sky.

Go outside tomorrow night (11/17) after midnight and look up -- if it's not too cloudy, you should have a good chance of seeing one, since the Leonid Meteor Shower should be going on. I think.

Yeah, I heard about the meteor shower. Ok, Mariah, here's your chance. Don't blow it.

And a dust storm. I wasn't sure if it counted the same as a sand storm. Hey, and I HAVE experienced a plague of locusts! It was horrible.

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