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When I was little, whenever I would see a tornado siren, I thought they were after me and try to eat me. Sometimes when I was in bed about to go to sleep, I thought that they would sometimes come to my window and start talking to me and sometimes I would talk back and we would have conversations.
When I was about four my father gave me an "Indian" headdress with turkey feathers in it. I put it on the next day and I was jumping up and down and stomping and yelling in the living room. Mother asked me, "What are you doing? A rain dance?" So I said yes and kept running around and hollering and making all kinds of noise until I was really tired. Sure enough, it rained. It rained and rained and the river came up and flooded part of a nearby town, doing millions of dollars' worth of damage. I thought it was my fault, and for the next several months I hid whenever I saw a police officer. I was positive they knew who caused the flood and they were coming to get me.
Texas granny
I used to belief that a hurricane was a giant crab that emerged from the sea (from time to time) and ate people.
BJ
When I was in PreSchool we got the "Stop, Drop & Roll" lesson. I wasn't paying attention and for the longest time I thought this meant that if there was a fire at all I had to "Srop, Drop & Roll." I coudln't figure out why we shouldn't try to get away or to get help. I thought I had to roll on it to put it out.
L
i used to believe tornados were ginormous tomatoes that came and ate you
rach
I used to think that hurricanes form when the little gusts of wind that make leaves swirl in circles all got joined together.
I used to believe that it was possible for the Earth to turn upside down and we would all fall into the sky if we didn't grab onto something quickly.
Jacob
I'm a big Wizard Of Oz fan. And when I was little I used to believe that if you were outside during a tornado (even though Dorothy was inside) it would suck you up into OZ.
Tiff
i use to believe that when it would be very hott there would be an earthquake!!
I grew up in the Midwest, so every summer we wound up sitting under the basement stairs at least once due to a tornado watch or warning. I didn't have the slightest clue what a tornado was--I had heard the word and seen news footage of the wreckage they left behind, but I had never actually seen footage of a tornado. My five-year-old reasoning went something like this: "'tornado' sounds like 'tomato,' so it's probably something red and roundish... but it must also be big, and capable of destroying buildings." So, what's large, red, round, and has a tendency to smash through walls? The Kool-Aid mascot, of course! Every time I sat under those basement steps, I imagined a more massive version of the Kool-Aid mascot, stomping through town and booming, "Ohhh, yeeeah!" as he decimated trailer parks.
Despite the havoc he wreaked, I had no qualms about drinking his product.
Carrie
When I was like four I had this CD about dinosaurs and it had this game in which you had to save the dinosaurs from being hit by the comet. I was terrified of that game after I ran out of time on it and I became firmly convinced that a comet was going to hit the Earth in this day and age. I kept telling my parents we were running out of time and stuff. And then my mom saw a real comet (I think it was Hale Bopp) and told me to come look at the comet. I didn't want to but my parents wouldn't stop bugging me to. I was terrified to death of that thing and was SURE it was going to crash into Earth. After that I got over my fears though.
And nowadays I LOVE comets
I used to think that when there was an Earthquake, the ground would always split open, so when the earth was shaking, it was just the earth growling.
When I was about four or five, I used to think that a "cyclone" and a "cyclops" were the same thing.
I used to believe that a tornado was a storm that threw huge tomatoes at you.....
This was actually a friends belief when we were 11 or so. She believed that if there was an earthquake people in planes would feel it because cracks would from in the sky and knock the plane out of the sky.
K
In elementary school we were told that a tornado approaching sounded similar to the sound of a train. I took this as meaning the toot of a train- not the chug noise....I let my family in on my knowledge to warn them... but from that point on, every time my cousin and I were playing outside and a train in the distance tooted it's horn, she would run inside and lock me out, yelling that it was too late!! She couldn't open the door because of the tornado.. I cried and cried and held on to the railing waiting for the gust of wind to come and take me away...
When i ws little, my mom told me about floods and how the water goe up really high. Whenever she talked to me about this, i would imagine the water going above our roof, and we'd have to swim all the way up to survive and not drown. I always hoped there wouldn't be a flood because my baby sister didn't know how to hold her breath, and i wasn't sure i could swim all the wy up without passing out and dying.
Drowning is baaaaaaaaaaadddddddddd
when i was 4 i thought an earthquake was an earth cake!
chardog
When I was a kid and saw floodings on TV with poor peoples houses under water, I found it super cool and wished the same happen to me, because I would be able to swim from my room to the kitchen and back to the living room
RC
when i was real little my dad was reading the paper so i treid reading it i thought it said a metor would hit the earth and blow up the earth in 2006 well its 2006 when i got older i found out it said come to wal mart no interest till 2006
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