I used to think that hurricanes form when the little gusts of wind that make leaves swirl in circles all got joined together.
A childhood belief about disasters

others believed things like this
- My brother once convinced me that the wind was "leftover hurricanes"— Tufty the Squirrel
- When I was a kid I thought that the wind was caused by the trees fanning their leaves...— GDP
- when I was very young, I used to beleive that the leaves rustling in the trees made the wind blow— Ellona
- That when u opened all the windows on just one side of the car the wind would make it tip over.— Schmackalie
- My dad told me that when he was little, he thought the trees waved back and forth to make the wind blow.— casey
- I thought the white circles you see when looking at a bright window were what atoms of air look like.— H.