Auntie Em! Auntie Em!

[ceebee_eebee]

I just experienced the most insane weather event of my entire life. The whole way to the metro, there were wind gusts of up to 50 mph. That was freaky enough for DC, but the sun was out so I figured it was just an unusually windy day. I get to my stop and start walking to work, where I run into a friend of mine. All of a sudden, the sky turned black and tiny ice pellets started falling. They were blowing so hard that it was like being sandblasted. We couldn't move forward, people across the street were blown into a chainlink fence, it was UN-FUCKING-BELIEVABLE. There were a few seconds where I was blown so hard, and it was so painful, I thought I was going to be knocked to the ground.

I think that must be what being in a hurricane feels like.

My friend and I finally made it into the building and all these people were standing in the lobby with shocked looks. We were SOAKED. And then, while we were standing there, the sky turned blue again.

It's the end of the fucking world.

Comments

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

And yet your out-going President says global warming doesn't exist...

[elyssadc.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. I only hope he was out on the White House lawn when this shit went down.

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Yeah!!

[stunt-muppet.livejournal.com]

No kidding. I live a little ways outside of D.C., and it was sunny until about 9:30, when the sky darkened and snow started pouring out. Five minutes later? Sunny again. And now the wind's picked back up.

The weather here is just stupid. >:(

[elyssadc.livejournal.com]

It was unreal! The weather here is definitely stupid, but this was...off the charts. I'm afraid to leave the building.

[biichan.livejournal.com]

Woah.

[prof-pangaea.livejournal.com]

DON'T LET THE WEATHER KILL YOU ELYSSA. I WOULD BE SAD. LIKE THIS: ;_____;

i got to enjoy a three hour delay on my flight home last night on account of gale-force winds around new jersey.

also! once i was in belgium and there was a hurricane. and as it was whipping up i was walking with friends down the street nd we had to force ourselves against the wind because it was so MASSIVE, and i was like, "we just need to get up to the next street, we'll get out of the wind-tunnel this street is making and then we'll be able to walk properly!" and then we got to the next street and I WAS SO WRONG because the wind was so sudden and fierce i literally got blown away and would have flown off the sidewalk (and probably into a car) except i ran into two old women. THEY SAVEDED ME.

[elyssadc.livejournal.com]

Ok, I just laughed so hard at that story I guffawed.

That is AWESOME. I'm still laughing. Ediburgh is the windiest place I've ever lived. I saw one of those newspaper kiosks actually blow about 30 feet across a bridge once. With the paper seller still inside. It was fantastic. Still, your story wins.

[nina-ds.livejournal.com]

No kidding! I'm down on the Chesapeake Bay. I was out doing errands, and had a flyer of coupons in my hand (not a flimsy newsprint one, either, a good, stiff card mailer), and a sudden burst of wind RIPPED IT IN TWO! Part of it went flying off so fast I couldn't even see it. Almost knocked me into my car as I was getting out. It's bright and sunny and breezy now, but every once in a while, it whips up something fierce. I'm staying in. I usually prefer to stay off the roads on New Year's Eve anyway, but the combination of drunks and wind does not bode well.

And here comes the wind like a freight train, as I type. There are branches down all over my property (I have lots of trees).

[zyrk.livejournal.com]

I know! The wind is nuts today. Driving home, my mom and I saw a light post that had been blown over onto a car. It is so random.

[happydalek.livejournal.com]

For the record, Pennsylvania is also tremendously gusty. Scuppered my plans to go jogging this morning, for sure. :D