I used to believe that when the weatherman talked about the "wind chill" he was saying "wind shield," and that meant they had a giant platform on the back of a semi truck that they could raise to deflect the wind away from the town.
A childhood belief about weather

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that trees made the wind, but its the wind that blew the trees!— victoria
- I used to believe that the wind was caused by trees so you could stop the wind by getting rid of trees.— Nira
- I use to believe that the trees caused the wind to blow by swaying back and forth, like a chinese fan. — Jason Blanchette
- I used to think that the tree branches moving was making the wind, not the wind making the tree branches move.— Jenny
- My dad told me that when he was little, he thought the trees waved back and forth to make the wind blow.— casey
- I used to believe that I could control the wind.Anon