I love seeing them all as well, I remember when I visited my Brother down South in New Zealand one year, we had a real extreme experience eof that, we down the road about 20 Minutes from him, was a lake frozen over and people were ice skating onit, a further 20 Minute drive down to the coast and there was a lake which people were swimming in, it was a little cold for me but wow such a change in a relatively short distance
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Wow! That is an extreme difference. It is not nearly that dramatic here. The differences are much more subtle, but still fun to see.
I was only maybe 14 at the time but I still remember it so well, where i grew up we didnt get snow or heavy ice and the changes from one to the other amazed me so much it is locked in my memory banks
That would be an incredible experience. Did you experience any earthquakes when you were living there?
Ohh yes New Zealand has lots of them, many you dont feel but plenty that you do its just part of the way of life there, I felt some bigger ones, my Dad used to freak out, well thats not the right term, just be concerned if it was a big one at night and wake us all up to make sure we were OK, used to annoy me at the time if I was happily sleeping LOL
Good that you weren't terrified of them. I think I might have been. I had plenty of tornado nightmares when I was a kid. I don't think I could have handled earthquake nightmares, too!
Now tornados I have not experienced so they may have freaked me out and caused nightmares, Earthquakes I grew up with so they dont stress me at all, my wife when she felt her first one there was a bit freaked and it was a smallish one
As beautiful as she usually is Mother Nature can get pretty violent! I remember standing and watching a tornado go up the street at the end of our block and throwing all the trees all around. Big huge old trees were just uprooted like matchsticks. I was not very old and it all happened so quickly that my mother didn't even have time to gather us all up and move us to safety. All those trees laying willy-nilly all over the place gave us kids in the neighborhood a fabulous place to build forts for the next few weeks!