[CollinsE90]

Just thought i would see if any of you guys have had as crazy of an experience as i have had... anybody else?

March 1, 2007 is a day i will never forget. It was my senior year in high school, and that morning our principal came over the intercom and told us of possible bad weather and we would be released at 1 p.m. Now that was at 9:45ish. Well we stayed in the hallway until 1 p.m, we started to get up to walk to our cars, and the assistant principal ran down the hallway and told us to get down. At that time I remember looking outside the glass french style doors and seeing the weather go sunny, to pitch black. I then saw a teacher pull her classroom door open and it was pulled shut from the vacuum, that was a EF-3 tornado, 300 yards wide and like a mile long that had just touched down on our high school. That was the most unbelievable experience ever, to look up and see the roof of the school rolled off like SOD grass. The school was completely destroyed as I stood up to check on my brother. We walked outside to get away from falling debry thinking we had lived a catastrophe. Some werent as lucky as I. 8 of my fellow classmates and friends, including one of my baseball teamates, didnt make it out alive. I think it totaled to over 100 million dollars in damage. President Bush even flew down. pretty crazy, thats the cliff notes.

[MCMLXXXIX]

whaaat...
my God thats horrible dude, and in high school. stuff like this makes me glad to live in jersey, freakin tornadoes
i dont have any crazy life experiences

[CollinsE90]

Originally Posted by MCMLXXXIX

whaaat...
my God thats horrible dude, and in high school. stuff like this makes me glad to live in jersey, freakin tornadoes
i dont have any crazy life experiences

yeh i know man, we had mandy moore, rachel ray, and few others at my prom. very wild year

[Oregano123]

i saw the burning of the WTC from my high school cafeteria

[drift90]

I almost died...

When i was like 10 back in jamaica, we had my uncles 5 series and we were going to ochi
We are following my uncle and he drives like a mad man, so he over takes.. my dad follows at some point, right as we go over, he punches it, there was an uncoming car, he was able to dodge the car within INCHES
these are 2 lane roads..

[SpecC]

i ate some ice cream yesterday

[MCMLXXXIX]

Originally Posted by drift90

I almost died...

When i was like 10 back in jamaica, we had my uncles 5 series and we were going to ochi
We are following my uncle and he drives like a mad man, so he over takes.. my dad follows at some point, right as we go over, he punches it, there was an uncoming car, he was able to dodge the car within INCHES
these are 2 lane roads..

omg this reminds me of my vacations to Lebanon with the family. my dad driving his 80 something chrysler on narrow mountain back roads with no brakes. thats a crazy life experience! if any one here has ever been to Lebanon or is there, you know what i mean lmao! its amazing yet one of the scariest rides of your life kinda stuff

[aut0sh0cker]

Maybe not so crazy, but certainly life changing:

1. My prom night ended with me rushing one of my friend to the ER for alcohol poisoning. Their blood test showed a .40 BAC. I am now much more responsible with myself and those around me.

2. Woke up at 10:00 am at my best friends house. Hungover and tired as hell. Looked outside and saw a huge fire in my the hills right behind the house. The next five minutes were spent taking only the irreplacible items out of the house (an old film photo album, legal docs, etc) and getting the f*** out. Last thing I saw was the gazebo catching fire as the fire chopper rained fire retardant liquid on my head.

Both of these experiences have put the value of human life and material goods in perspective. A few seconds is all it takes or a great time to turn into a shit storm.

[scorcherjf]

I remember watching the school cafeteria's TV on 9/11 at lunch. My friend was sitting across the table, in silence, staring at the TV. His dad worked on the 99th floor of Tower 1. We all tried to assure him that his dad would be ok, but obviously we had no idea. Minutes later, the tower collapses and we watch it live on CNN, chills go down my spine as we all watch, my friend, still silent and just staring at the tv. People were running around hysterically, calling their family from the pay phones (kids didn't really have cell phones back then), but my friend sat there in silence... he stayed for the rest of the school day, didn't say a word.

I'm sure 9/11 will be one of the most common answers to this thread... everyone has a different, yet important story. I'll never forget that day...

[Sara]

August 29, 2005 Monday morning. Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana full force. We lost everything. The worst part was the after math. Being counted like sheep by national guard. Having martial law declared. Not knowing if you're family is alive or dead. Having your home being turned into a third world country. Not having food or water for DAYS. Took 13 days to have water delivered. No electricity in 100 degree weather in Louisiana. Seeing multiple dead bodies layed out on the side of the road with blankets over them. The smell of just everything. Not knowing what's going to happen if you're every going to recover. Not knowing where my horse was or if she drowned. Finding out my next door neighbor was killed. Looters. The feeling that we were left to die. It was awful. Something I wish nobody has to go through. I left New Orleans. I'll never return. I'm almost positive that's the craziest life experience I'll ever have.

[Sara]

Originally Posted by Phiberglass

And people don't want to come to California because of earthquakes.

Id take an earth quake over a Hurricane.

[TurboFan]

Originally Posted by Phiberglass

And people don't want to come to California because of earthquakes.

I don't want to go to Kalifornia becuase they're trying to turn the damn state into a socialist republic.

[mpimping]

I almost died in a couple accidents. In my first bimmer I was gng like over 100 and lost control but turned out of the skid. My friend was in the car and he had bacardi 151 with him(he's nuts). In the m3 I got hit on the drivers side and I had to climb out of the other side.

[CollinsE90]

Originally Posted by Sara504

Id take an earth quake over a Hurricane.

a tornado isnt fun at all...trust me...every major hurricane in the last 20 years except katrina i got a taste of in alabama where i grew up...so ive had a little bit of everything

[Couch]

Sophmore year of high school....

It was a short day, a guy had a loaded gun in his backpack, unknown to anyone, the bell rang and BANG.

Everyones looking around at one another thinkg WTF was that. There's paper particles and smoke floating in the air and I look over and see a girl clutch her desk and slowly fall to the ground. I ran over and see a pool of blood forming around her knee. Out biology teacher was a football coach, and his training/experience with injuries came into play and created a turniquet while someone called the police and got the nurse.

Had to come back to school later that day to talk to the police. I would have never pegged this guy for carrying a weapon, he was pretty quiet, had no enemies, nor made fun of. Apparently he had been repeatedly threatened while getting off the bus in his neighborhood by a gang. Not sure of the actual truth but I still believe that was logical.

[in5ane_3]

Originally Posted by Couch

Sophmore year of high school....

It was a short day, a guy had a loaded gun in his backpack, unknown to anyone, the bell rang and BANG.

Everyones looking around at one another thinkg WTF was that. There's paper particles and smoke floating in the air and I look over and see a girl clutch her desk and slowly fall to the ground. I ran over and see a pool of blood forming around her knee. Out biology teacher was a football coach, and his training/experience with injuries came into play and created a turniquet while someone called the police and got the nurse.

Had to come back to school later that day to talk to the police. I would have never pegged this guy for carrying a weapon, he was pretty quiet, had no enemies, nor made fun of. Apparently he had been repeatedly threatened while getting off the bus in his neighborhood by a gang. Not sure of the actual truth but I still believe that was logical.

Did he shoot the gun or it went off in his back pack?

[Couch]

Originally Posted by in5ane_3

Did he shoot the gun or it went off in his back pack?

Sorry, I left that part out.

The gun discharged when he picked up his backpack. Completely freak accident.

The irony of it (if you can call it that) is that this guy and the girl that was the unfortunate victim were very good friends. She was okay, I don't think they removed the bullet.

[richeerich03]

My first day of flight-ops on the deck of an Aircraft Carrier (Stennis).. 18 hours of madness....

[TiAg335i]

Hmmm I have a couple...few I'd rather not say.....was bit by a dog once and sent to the ER, my feet were bitten by crabs while pushing my 700lb stalled jetski out of the middle of a canal...and when I got back on I was bleeding all over the place.....many others.

[ragingclue]

Medevac'd on a C-130 flight from Al-Asad, Iraq to Qatar with a couple combat landings/take-offs at other bases in between with some pretty badly (but not super badly) wounded soldiers almost flying out of their litters. I never knew such a big bird could maneuver like that until that flight. Talk about scrabling your innards....

[wellwell]

Originally Posted by Sara504

August 29, 2005 Monday morning. Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana full force. We lost everything. The worst part was the after math. Being counted like sheep by national guard. Having martial law declared. Not knowing if you're family is alive or dead. Having your home being turned into a third world country. Not having food or water for DAYS. Took 13 days to have water delivered. No electricity in 100 degree weather in Louisiana. Seeing multiple dead bodies layed out on the side of the road with blankets over them. The smell of just everything. Not knowing what's going to happen if you're every going to recover. Not knowing where my horse was or if she drowned. Finding out my next door neighbor was killed. Looters. The feeling that we were left to die. It was awful. Something I wish nobody has to go through. I left New Orleans. I'll never return. I'm almost positive that's the craziest life experience I'll ever have.

+1 My senior year at Tulane. damn that sucked.

[MJC///M3]

got into a really bad car accident literally on my 5th birthday....june 1st 1989. Will never forget it....the only thing I remember was seeing the windshield completely shatter...and remember feeling the bottom of my seat get extremely warm.

To this day that "crunch" sound of car accidents still sends chills down my spine.