Boo! What scares you?

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Ohhh :confused: I’d be terrified, excited but so frightened…and I think the panic would be contagious.I would be like the woman coming in through the doors in the clip.
 
Living near the beach, I used to have nightmares about tidal waves when I was a kid (we didn’t call them tsunamis back then). We’re actually about a mile from the beach and at a substantially higher elevation than sea level, so that no longer scares me.

Being 6’ 3" tall and taking my daily walk early in the morning, I’m always the first to walk through the freshly made spider webs. I hate it! It doesn’t scare me as much as annoy me.

Bees scare me. I’ve never been stung, but I had other insect bites as a kid that made my hand swell up with an allergic reaction. The doctor warned me I might be allergic to bee venom as well.

Hell. I’m scared of hell!

Oh, and I probably should be more afraid of earthquakes than I am. They just add to my overall anxiety 😠.
 
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Ohhh :confused: I’d be terrified, excited but so frightened…and I think the panic would be contagious.I would be like the woman coming in through the doors in the clip.
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Channel 5 ran that so much that it soon became funny each time we saw that woman coming through the doors. But of course, it wasn’t funny at the time. One of our bus drivers was caught under the underpass as the tornado passed. She was hysterical (not in a funny ha-ha way)and retired soon after. Bless her heart.

But looking at the video, you can see that it didn’t look like your average tornado. I mean, wouldn’t you have thought it was just a bad storm coming through?
 
😬 I don’t really know what a normal tornado is like…but that looks kind of like a huge storm without a clear funnel.
 
A tornado is usually seen as a funnel cloud and the sound is described as a freight train.
 
Is it a quiet beach? Along the coast here can be a little rough…when I stay dawn by the sea and sleep at night
I’m vary aware of the low roar .
 
If there’s big surf I can hear the waves crashing where I live, but only early in the morning when all’s quiet. We get a storm every five years or so that’s large enough to damage the piers or flood the homes along the shore, but we’re really not known for major weather events. No hurricanes or tornados here.
 
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I did climb to the top of Saint Peter’s basilica, though a good part of the steps had no safety rails.
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Oh, I didn’t know you could do this!
Time for me to buy a stair climber and start training. Climbing is not my strong point. I have been to the top of the US Capitol Dome and the Utrecht Dom Toren but both were a bit of a challenge.
I already wanted to climb to the top of the Duomo in Florence sometime (didn’t have time for this on last visit).
 
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Hmmm, I used to be afraid of all kinds of stuff, some understandable (like tornadoes) and some just dumb stuff. Now that I pray more and have been through many scary situations in life, it happens less often.

I will cop to having some fear when flying transatlantic and the plane hits a big bunch of turbulence or starts losing a ton of altitude when we were over the water. Last time was flying to Lisbon for the Fatima “Miracle of the Sun” anniversary on a redeye flight the day before the big day, the plane, which was full of pilgrims and priests, hit some storm and started to shake and bounce all over the place like mad in the pitch dark early morning hours. I had to put my trust in Our Lady to get us all there safely.
 
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Cyclones can be very destructive, with damage to property and crops at times, and accompanied by flooding.
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They sure can and it doesn’t matter if you call it a Cyclone, Hurricane, or Typhoon.
I have never experienced one on land, but my parents and youngest brother have after they moved to Florida in the mid 1970s. Not so many years ago They got hit with three of those things back to back. Mom told me that it was almost a year afterwards before they heard birdsong.
 
Me too. So much so that whenever those long Cancer Care Center commercials come on TV, I change the channel. I don’t like to even think about it!
 
I’ve known so many people that through no fault of their own got struck down by cancer. You don’t have to smoke or tan to get cancer. It has a lot to do with genetics.
 
I think that the fear of Alzheimer’s would be on many people’s list?
Especially the not-so-young.
 
It’s at the back of my mind Trishie ,don’t worry…I’m sure many people have this fear and it drives them to keep mentally active 🙂
 
For instance, in negotiating and responding to the many and varied threads in CAF we are frequently engaging in mental gymnastics that may keep the mind toned to some extent.
 
Artificial Intelligence (though most of what the previous posters have cited gives me the “willies” too!
 
And the word games here first thing in the morning 😀 I play
scrabble with my parents,I find if I’m reading a novel the words come quickly for scrabble.
 
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