QotD: It's hot in here...

What's the most extreme weather you've been in? A memorable storm? Heat wave? Or something else?

Hurricane David travelled right across Jupiter, FL, when I was in 7th (?) grade. We filled the bathtubs with water and put plywood on the windows and just waited. I don't really recall much about the storm itself. I remember hearing that other neighborhoods had so much water that people were going about in canoes, and I was disappointed that didn't happen near our house. (It's wonderful to be a kid ;-) We did go outside as the eye of the storm passed over, and that was a neat, if eerie, experience.

Apparently I also read some stupid essay that I wrote about hurricanes for local tv. My parents insist it happened, although that memory (along with most of the rest of middle & high school ;-) is so deeply repressed that I couldn't really say that I remember it.