nature: weather

When I was young (7 or 8) I would believe that everytime it rained that God was having a little party w/ his friends in heaven and were bowling (don't ask) anyways whenever it would thunder i would always believe that God got a strike and the bowling pins made the crashing sound. And when lighting stiked that was the floors surface splitting for a second whenever a bowling ball hit the floor to hard at the bowling alley. i was a very imagative kid!

When I was about 5, I used to believe that it rained because god was crying. I used to pray to him and try to cheer him up. HA!

When I was about 4 , I asked my mom why it rains and she told me that all these birds had to hold it in for a really long time and when it was decided , they all let off at the same time and it was the rain. I believed that for a good long time.

My dad worked on a plant of some sort. They had those huge stacks with all the smoke coming out. One day I went up there with my mom and I saw the smoke, I truly believed that my dad made clouds all day! But no, he was just polluting.. ha.

I was about 6-- After I saw the movie Mary Poppins, I thought that people really could fly if they held an umbrella in the wind.

One day there was a storm, with a lot of wind rattling the windows. I argued with my mother for what seemed like HOURS, to let me go outside with an umbrella and fly.

When I was much smaller, I lived quite close to a Highway, in a qutie rural location with lots of trees and fields. Everytime a whole bunch of cars or a big transport would speed past my house, all of the trees would be caused to breeze over. Thus, I thought that wind came from cars and trucks driving really fast!

One day in kindergarten my teacher was going over tornado safety with us. One kid mistakenly said that you should go outside during a tornado. The teacher corrected her and said, "No, then you end up just like Dorothy" (from The Wizard of Oz). For the longest time after that I thought that tornadoes carried people to Oz instead of killing them (luckily I had no desire to go to Oz or my parents would've had problems-then again, we never had any tornadoes).

When I was in kinder, me and my friend Jackie would sit on the play-equiptment for hours and hours with our mouths open, "Eating The Wind"...

hee hee so cute!

When I was younger I used to think that because the sun was made of fire, the moon was the opposite and was made of ice because of its colour sometimes,and I thought that when it rained, it was the moon melting!

I used to believe my brother was right when he told me that if I looked at lightning I would go blind.

When I was 3 or 4, my father carried me outside at night and I caught a glimpse of the Northern Lights dancing around in the sky. I thought it was a ghost and was so scared that I always closed my eyes when I had to go outside in the dark.

When i was younger i used to believe the clouds were God's drawings. I used to make out animals in the shapes of the clouds. I still do actually.

I used to believe that when it rained god was crying because i did something that i wasn't suppose to.

I used to seriously believe that tornadoes and tomatoes were the exact same thing. So when we had Tornado watches, I thought that meant everyone had to check on their garden or something.

Growing up in Australia I was used to hearing weather alerts.

One that has been with me for about 35 years (I feel so embarrassed that I didnt get corrected years ago) is where the weather man says:

"There is a sheet weather alert"

Now I thought it meant that the rain was so hard, it's coming down 'in sheets'.

My mum nearly pee'd herself laughing when I recently told her this one.

It's actually a "sheep weather alert" for the farmers.

When I was very little I used to believe the reason it rained was because God would open up his freezer in heaven and ice would fall out and fall down the sky and by the time it reached earth it was melted and turned into water (rain).