When I was little, I didn't understand that hurricanes are given names, and everytime they said "hurricane isabelle" I thought that was the weather reporter's name.
A childhood belief about disasters

others believed things like this
- I thought weather forecasters were psychic and that's how they knew what the weather would be.Anon
- My brother once convinced me that the wind was "leftover hurricanes"— Tufty the Squirrel
- I thought Hurricane Dennis (in 2005) and the character Dennis from the Spongebob movie were related somehow.Anon
- I thought that Indian Summer was like the weather in India.Anon
- i was scared to fart outside in cold weather because i thought u would be able to see the steam.— xJeNneSceNcEx
- When I was very young, I thought that God was married to Mother Nature, and that together they made weather.Anon