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bosch icon wiper bladesHave you ever wanted to go along on a high speed chase, looking for tornadoes with a storm chaser? I have thought about it, and while part of my really wants to do that, there’s another part that says “No way! I’ll just watch on TV.” But, if you are that person who is ready to jump in the car, now is your chance to win a seat in the storm chaser car!

To celebrate the introduction of their new ICON Wiper Blades, Bosch is holding a contest where one lucky Facebook fan and a guest will win an experience of a lifetime: an all-expenses-paid, five-night VIP Storm Chasing trip for you and a guest, with Reed Timmer of Discovery Channel’s STORMCHASERS. Watch this video to get more information about Bosch ICON Wiper Blades, then click here to  enter to win their fantastic giveaway on Bosch Facebook Fan page!


You can also win a prize pack from Bosch right here at Fabgrandma! Just leave a comment telling me your most frightening tornado or storm experience, and you could win this prize pack that includes:

• A set of Bosch ICON wiper blades ($50 value)
• “Storm Chasers – Season 4” DVD ($55 value)
• A signed copy of Reed Timmer’s book “Into The Storm” ($20 value)
• A Bosch C3 6V/12V Fully Automatic 4-Mode Battery Charger ($70 value)

 

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This giveaway will end on February 20, 2012 at 11:59 pm EST.   One winner will receive (1) Bosch Prize pack as described above. The winner will be selected using And The Winner Is…plugin.  Giveaway open to US mailing addresses only.  Winner will be notified by email, so please make sure you use a valid email address when entering. Winner will have 48 hours to respond to the notification of winning. If the winner does not respond in 48 hours, a new winner will be chosen. You can enter once each day by tweeting about the giveaway one time each day per twitter account. Giveaway is open to residents of the United States and must be 18 years old or over. Prize is the responsibility of  and will be shipped to the winner by the sponsor. Please allow 4-6 weeks for delivery after the giveaway closes. I was provided with a pair of Bosch ICON windshield wipers  as compensation for hosting this giveaway.


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  2. I tornado hit when I was in college…I was at a friend’s house and like idiots we went outside to watch the funnel traveling down a highway! Youth! We think we are immortal. 🙂 Thank you.

  6. I was actually in a tornado once. It came in our backyard, and my mother (who isn’t too smart) pulled me across the yard to go in the house. That was a big mistake. I was actually sucked into it. Thank goodness it was a very small one. It is really true, it does sound like a railroad. The wind had picked up sand, it was moving so fast, it actually felt like glass. That was the only thing that really hurt me. I was very lucky. I have alot more stories that have happened, like a eighty year old cottonwood tree falling through my house during a storm, both of my parents were struck by lightening, (my father was hurt a bit, but both recovered). I have lived through alot. I don’t take any weather lightly.
    twoofakind12@yahoo.com

  7. A few years ago a tornado came within a mile of my house. It was frightening to see the damage it did to the homes in its path.

  9. As a child we often went to a neighbor’s cellar during storms. Once I remember going to our church’s basement.

    The storm I remembermost was the F5 that went through Moore, OK, and many other areas, on May 3, 1999. We lived in Edmond, OK which is north of Oklahoma City. We stood on our front porch and watched the storm moving in a northeasterly direction. We knew people in the path that Gary England was telling us it would go. We called people and told them to please take shelter. We contacted one woman who was going to head home from Edmond and invited her to come to our house instead. I don’t knowhow many people died that day, but even though I was not in the path, it was the worse storm I ever wanted to be even near.

    Having been raised in tornado alley, I have great respect for storms, but also know how to watch and listen and be prepared to find shelter. Thank you weathermen for all you do to keep us safe.

  10. OH man, I wish you would. I’ve never had the opportunity (I say that like it’s a positive thing) to even SEE a tornado, much less be in one.. Andy has though… HOWEVER…… Living in the Houston area, hurricanes are the SCARIEST THINGS EVAH!

    Hurricake IKE…. Oh. My. Gosh. Talk about Scary! Andy and I took the kiddos to my grandparents house, because we lived in a manufactured home at the time.. We had only 3 kiddos at the time. We thought it would pass, we were far inland enough to be no big deal.. ha.

    I was MID gallbladder attack when IKE went RIGHT over us. I was in pain, worried about the kids, no electricity, no cell service. There was a lot of crash boom bang, and then nothing. We thought it was over, but it was just the eye.. So calm and quiet.

    Then it started back up, and there was a HUGE crash boom bang…. and a tree fell right on the house where I was!

    Everything turned out ok for us.. not REAL damage, but that was crazy!

    Still want to be a storm chaser though!!!

  11. we were driving home in a rainstorm so bad that we had to pull over to the side of the road and wait for it to stop

  18. I lived in Oklahoma for a brief time when I was a kid, and doing dumb things like most kids do, we chased tornadoes… as I reflect back, it was pretty scary!

  19. I’ve lived most of my life in the deep south and have seen many scary storms. One of the scariest was an F4 (some say F5) tornado that tore through my town in Louisiana in the late 70’s. I was in southeast Texas for Hurricane Rita. I was in Houston for Tropical Storm Allison–less wind than a hurricane, but she moved slowly and dropped a lot of rain. My son and his family live on Galveston Island and had to run from Hurricane Ike–then had serious damage to contend with. I’m not a stranger to serious storms, but I like to hunker down, if I can—not like these Storm Chasers 😉

  28. The most frightening storm experience I’ve had is when the occasional hurricane comes through. We are lucky that we never sustained damage or got hurt, but they are scary.

  33. Just last summer we had a crazy storm/tornado in our area, and of course, I had to drive in it! First the hail came down, then the rain, I was terrified but slowly got home! We live in Illinois, so usually we just get a few warnings here and there but lately we’ve had a ton!

  38. A tornado hit years ago when I was a teen. Stupidly I stood and peeked out the glass cut out in our front door and watched it’s fury. It only lasted a few minutes and was soo loud. Less than 30min later the sun was shining and the sky looked as if nothing had ever happened. Our house was left untouched, but our neighbors home across the street was totally gone. Thankfully no one was hurt.

  49. Went through a few tornadoes down south, now up here in the north we get some interesting snow storms. Hurricane Irene was the worst for me.

  53. a couple year we were having alot of wind it knock our lights out 2 time in 2 weeks and it was winter in michigan we had to go to hotel.

  55. When my kiddos were about 6 months and 2 and a half, we had a tornado happen right outside our home. My husband and I were outside holding the babies while we watched the clouds churn. All of a sudden, we saw the tornado form. It was truly amazing, but scary at the same time. We barely got indoors before the hail started coming down. I love different kinds of weather and Storm Chasers is one of my sons favorite shows. Thanks for this opportunity.

  62. I was home with my four kids, one was an infant at the time, in the blizzard of 1996. It was so scary, the power kept going out, the state of NJ was shut down for a week

  71. I’ve never been through really SEVERE weather, but a few years back we had a wind storm and were without power for a week. A lot of peoples trees fell down;luckily none of ours.

  76. I was fortunately inside the only time we had a tornado. I just headed to the basement and waited it out!

  82. We were stuck on the interstate during a hurricane last summer . Trees were down everywhere and at one point we tried to take a local road and ran over some power lines. We ended up back on the interstate a short time later and sat for over two hours while watching the trees beside the road sway wildly. We were so thankful that when we reached our hotel late that night.

  84. My most frightening tornado story comes from when I was living in Beltsville, MD with my toddler children at the time and a tornado came right through my back yard. We had no warning. I heard the wind and knew we were hiding in the hallway because we didn’t have a basement and our bathroom had windows. By the time it was over 5 people died.. the high school in Laurel was flat, all of our neighbors needed new roofs and our house- the smallest and oldest withstood all of it and we had no damage

  91. My most frightening experience with a storm was just this past fall when we had such a bad thunderstorm that it knocked down power lines right in front of my house. My kids hadn’t returned home from school yet so when they did I had to figure out how to safely get them home.

  100. I have been on duty during tornado warnings, in a hospital which was used as a shelter for local residents. It was more busy than scary for me, since we were transferring patients to the basement. The tornado hit outside of town rather than anywhere near the hospital.

  116. My most frightening tornado experience was as a little girl having to go hide in the basement the night before a big test because of a tornado warning! A lot of trees on our block were destroyed and one fell on our house and cracked a window – luckily nobody was in the room.

  120. Hurricane Floyd it flooded half of the city that I live in and I had hardly any food and no utilities for my kids and they were out of school for almost 2 weeks
    tbarrettno1 at gmail dot com

  123. I once had to drive home from work at 2AM in the middle of a storm, it was pouring rain, with high winds so it was that crazy sideway winds, our Los Angeles roads and sewers system are definitely not made for the downpour so there were major floods, and visibility issue. It was a scary drive! never again!

  138. When I was stationed in Omaha, tornadoes landed on the base regularly. It was pretty scary having to often hide in my apartment bathroom with emergency goods ヅ *Thanks* for the giveaway!

  144. I lived through a number of hurricanes and tropical storms in Florida, once that wind gets above 50 mph they are all scary and it’s not much fun when the power goes out and the temps 90 + degrees.

  152. We were without electricity for 11 days after Hurricane Ike. The storm itself wasn’t all that bad, we did have wind and lots of tree branches in the yard. But no power for 11 days was just awful!

  157. I was in a training and on the 22nd floor of a hotel in Tulsa, OK in 1990 when a tornado came through. Not being from a tornado prone area, I had never experienced anything like that. Climbing down the 22 flights of stairs seemed like it took at least 9 hours!

  159. I think that anytime we get a tornado warning for our area, we get a bit more aware of what is going on around us just in case we need to take refuge.

  169. My most frightening storm experience was when hurricane Charley came through (Florida). I remember sitting in the dark, since the power was out, and it was night time, and all I could hear outside was wind and very loud noises. Had no idea what was going on, what was falling, what was breaking, if the neighbors houses were still there! it was a very scary experience

  174. My most scarey storm experience was when my son was young and I was at work. We had a bad storm coming in so I left work to get home before it hit. I was passing the last exit off the freeway before my home exit which was about 10 miles down the freeway yet….I saw the wall cloud coming in…thought I had time to make it….but about 1/2 way to my exit….the storm hit. It turned black….could hardly see the school bus in front of me. We all came to a stand still on the freeway. The wind was so strong felt like the van was going to topple over. I was so scared when the school bus in front of me…the back of the bus moved into the other lane from the wind. 🙁 After about 5 mintues of darkness and wind and rain …..it let up a bit and we could see enough to move again. It was the worst I have been in and very scarey. Thank goodness I had close neighbors and my son went to their home and was safe in their basement. Next time I will take shelter!

  183. I don’t really have any terribly scary thunderstorm or tornado stories. Growing up in the midwest, storms are just part of life during the summer. I guess my worst was just a couple years ago when I got a bad feeling from a storm and decided to go to my parents house to ride out the storm in a basement. It turned out to be a pretty bad storm but not horrible, and I actually had to clean up some water that made its way to my parents basement. The weird thing though about that storm was that a couple of my co-workers got really bad feelings about that storm too and actually went to basements (they don’t have basements at home either) to ride out the storm. None of us usually are too bothered by storms, but we all got a bad vibe from that one.

  188. We had a tornado when I was a junior in HS. Not much of a story, they come through and leave very quickly. Now my mother can tell this same story with lots of middle parts.

    ky2here at msn dot com

  210. When I was younger, and had just moved to the midwest, I was riding in the car with my family when we spotted a funnel cloud up ahead. Luckily it was far enough away that we were able to pull off the road and take cover, but it was scary stuff!

  215. My best friend’s mom was paralyzed during a tornado when I was a teenager, I have been terrified of them since. Luckily they are rare in this neck of the woods.
    smchester at gmail dot com

  237. I was 22 and did not drive much in the winter….. My car was acting up and the people who looked at it charged me 120 dollors to change the spartplugs and sent me on my way.
    I hit black ice and did a360 anda 180….. got off and the next exit and found a hotel for the nigth

  248. Luckily I’ve avoided any encounters with extremely dangerous storms, but this past Thanksgiving I had a pretty scary drive to the airport when I got stuck in a major snow and ice storm – my car slid off the road three or four times, and a 60-mile drive took me about 3 hours to complete.

  258. We had a horrible storm a few years back that left us without electric for 5 days, was the worst one I had ever been in

  272. I was working in Home Health and had to travel in the country to admit a client and continue the IV antibiotics that were started in the Hospital. It was snowing and the weather report predicted a snow storm. Home health was closing but this admission was a priority. I drove following the instructions the family had given me. It was slow traveling but I had driven in snow and took my time but it kept snowing and snowing. When I finally wanted to stop and turn around , I could not see anywhere to turn around. No farmer driveways . I couldn’t see the difference between the road and the ditches . I had no choice but to travel on. At the T intersection where I was to turn off . I had to guess where the middle of the road was and made the turn. I made it there and by the time I left several hours later the snow plows were out and marking the road ways and it had stopped snowing.

  274. Wow I would have to say the most frightening one was last year. We were all in bed sleeping and I was woke up by this huge gust of wind that shook our whole house! I mean it was REALLY scary. Then this powerful storm just hit but didn’t last long. We were all up by this time! Our electric got knocked out from it. Then we started getting phone calls that our electric would be out for a few hours. Not even a mile from my house electric poles were ripped up from the ground blocking our main road (I’m not joking like 15 were ripped up from the ground), power lines hanging down, a HUGE brand new barn was shredded to pieces, a camper was picked up thrown down by a pond with only the wheels left flipped over, huge trees on top of cars & blocking roads, etc. There was damage EVERYWHERE! We later found out it was a Tornado that came through. That’s scary because we usually don’t get that type of weather here just bad storms. We had some awful ones last year, I’m scared for summer to even come! We don’t have a basement or anything to keep us safe, so we always go to Wal-Mart. I’m just scared that we won’t have time again like this Tornado that came through. We got caught in a bad storm (said Tornado warning) so we headed to Wal-Mart. It started to get really bad as soon as we pulled in the parking lot. Shopping carts were loose going like 10-15 mph and slammed the side of our passenger door & I mean slammed! It shook our whole car, we had a dent in it like the size of a laundry basket (lol) I lost everything out of my pockets/purse just trying to hurry & get inside. My hubby was stuck out in the car & we didn’t know if he was going to be okay or not. I’m just a nervous wreck thinking back & what this year holds! Sorry so long but this is what happened all last year here. It seem like we were hopping in the car to leave for Wal-Mart every other day!

  279. I was having dinner with some friends at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor when we were hit with the tail end of a hurricane. It was incredible to watch the servers quickly move everyone inside and get the storm shades down for protection. It was a little scary, but we felt perfectly secure inside. Driving back to D.C. in the storm that evening was difficult.

  281. The most frightening was a tornado that went over our house but thankfully did not damage it. Trees were downed but missed the house. Others a quarter mile away were devastated.

  284. @chrisdeglen tweeted:

    twitter.com/#!/chrisdeglen/status/170978122257281025

    chrisdeglen(at)gmail(dot)com

  289. My most frightening storm experience was when Charley hit Orlando a while back. Our house didn’t get hit badly – all we lost was a few shingles and a tree. However, right in the middle of the storm the transformer that happened to be directly behind our backyard (we backed on to a cow pasture) blew and boy what a scary noise that was! We thought everything was going to go.

  292. My husband and I were walking out on a nature trail and were way out and noticed the sky turning dark. About 15 minutes later a policeman drives on the trail and yells “get off the trail, we have had a tornado warning!” So my husband and I ran all the way back to our car. Later found out a tornado touched down about 5-10 miles from where we were!

  299. My worst storm experience was being stuck at work for 48 hours during a blizzard. I just wanted my own bed!

  300. Being in college alone at my boyfriends apartment and hearing a tornado warning and having to go i nthe scary basement (SPIDERS) to hide from the storm

  310. We were still in college and my husband had a job interview in the city about 2 hours away. After class we headed toward the city and, in a time crunch, we hit a pouring rain. It was so bad we had to pull over and my husband do his interview partially by cell phone in the car.

  311. My freshman year at college our campus was hit by a severe tornado. We had to find ways home after the storm because there were no phones and we couldn’t have cars. We had just come inside the dorm before it hit – no warning at all. Very lucky.

  317. My most frightening storm experience was riding out Hurricane Ivan in September 2004. We took nearly a direct hit here in Pensacola, FL (you know it’s going to be bad when Anderson Cooper comes down here) and WHY we stayed instead of leaving is beyond me! We have never stayed for another hurricane since then!

  328. my most frightening tornado experience was last spring. I was outside checking the weather, and out of nowhere came a small tornado. It wasnt very big, it just scared me. It was the same day the Joplin tornado happened. I watched it come in from the west from a swatch of trees. You couldnt see it before, because the trees were in the way. It luckily moved away from us.

    itsjustme62613 at gmail.com

  340. I watched a tornado go over our house when I was about five.
    vmkids3 at msn dot com

  342. Driving down the road and a freak thunderstorm just dumped hail and a lot of water in a short time and I got stuck in the road and had to push the car out of the road!

  348. The scariest storm experience was when we were stopped at a stop light as a storm was beginning and the stop light was struck by lightening. The car shook as the electrical system was overwhelmed…

  349. My most frightening experience is watching a tornado destroy a house across the street from a friend a mine.

  353. The worst storm was in the middle of summer and although we are in the midwest it looked like a hurricane outside. The rain was blowing straight across and the trees were bent nearly to the ground. Many very old trees that had withstood tornadoes were totally uprooted.

  363. I was 7 years old and shopping at a mall with my mother, the power went out and my mom being the shopping trooper she was stayed so we could finish getting what she wanted. We left the mall and started driving home the wind was horrible,blowing the car all over the place,some how we made it home safely. We got out of the car and left the garage to enter the house when a tornado flew right over the garage and house. The tornado hit the house directly acroos the street from mine and tore the entire second story off leaving only the basement.It continued on a path of destruction through the town I lived in and killed a classmate of mine. It appears that as we were driving home the tornado was right behind us and we never even knew it was there.
    carolkfoster at comcast dot net

  365. When I in high school in Pennsylvania, we had a cluster of tornados cause enormous damage to the enire area. Whole forests wiped out and many deaths.

  370. The was a tornado that took down a barn about a half mile from our house. It went over our farm first but didn’t do any damage other than a few limbs dropped from trees. The barn was totally distroyed.

    diane dot wortman at gmail dot com

  375. We lived on the coast in New Jersey, and I have lived through a few storms that have flooded the whole town. No basements where I lived.

  380. I remember living in Louisiana and we had a tornado warning and my little girl was playing in the yard with one of her friends, I heard of the warning and the wind started to pick up and I went out to get her and she was not there. I was frantic! Across the field I saw a funnel cloud forming and went into panic because she was no where to be found. After a few seconds here she comes out of her friends house and started running toward me, she knew that she was not allowed in peoples houses but I was relieved that I found her. We went into the apartment just before the pool furniture was flying everywhere. And the wind did sound like a train coming . We went into the dining room because there were no windows, and withing minutes it was all over. We went outside and could not believe the damages around the apartment but we were thankful that there were no damages to our windows and apartment building..
    kat_emerick@yahoo.com

  381. I was in my car on the highway headed home from my grandmothers. A tornado dropped down on the hood of my car and forced it into the ditch. It took out the community that was just in front of me. I feel very fortunate.

  382. When I was in high school, we were all locked in the mall because tornados were causing damage in the town. THank you

  383. when i lived in text a tornado went right by are house.we were not home at the time thank god
    amy16323(at)gmail(dot)com

  388. Oh wow. When we lived in New Orleans I went to run on the levee and thought I had time to run down and back. Big mistake! It moved so much faster than I expected and I was in trouble. My hubby was at the park and went to save me. He did, and I learned a valuable lesson.

  393. My most frightening storm experience was probably when there was a huge lightening storm and an evergreen fell in my parent’s yard luckily it didn’t hit the house.

  399. We just got missed by a tornado when I was 6. Lot of trees down and lots power for a couple days.

  406. I have never been in a tornado but my most frightening storm story was a Dust Storm while traveling through Idaho. We were driving along and out of nowhere we were surrounded by a dust storm. We did our best to get off the road and avoid all of the vehicles around us that had stopped partially on the road. We made it off the road just as a semi-truck came barreling past us almost clipping of our side mirror.

  409. One year traveling cross country with my parents we stopped at a store for food in Kansas. When we came outside it was all dark and cloudy. As we started to drive on the radio they were telling everyone to pull over and get in the ditch, because a tornado was coming through. My Dad just kept driving and it was scary, but we were safe.
    mightynaynay(at)cs.com

  412. My most frightening storm experience was when I lived in SC and the hurricane was hitting NC very close to us. We had heavy rain, flooding and power outrages. Very scary.

  416. Driving in a hail storm..luckily it was small hail. It felt like the car was being destroyed and it was hard to see as it was dark. I was super tense and just wanted to get under cover.

  420. our worst was this past summer when irene hit vermont we had so many roads and bridges wiped out

  426. My most frightening storm experience was actually a typhoon. I was about 8 and we were released from school early because a typhoon was about to hit. It arrived when I was walking home all by myself.

  429. We were in a hurricane when we were camping out one weekend. We knew we were getting a bad storm when we went got into the sleepings bags, but didn’t realize how bad it was until we woke up the next morning and there was trees down all over the campsite and everything was flooded around us. No one was injured though..

  430. Hello, how are you today? Thank you for this opportunity. My most frightening storm experience was ‘Hurricane Diana’ of 1984. Here on the South-Eastern coast of North Carolina. The hurricane was fore-casted to go out to sea and dissipate. We all relaxed, but the hurricane strengthened in the warm Atlantic waters. It circled and returned even stronger. That and a few others were definitely scary.

  434. Thanks for the giveaway…lived in Alabama’s “tornado alley” for several years, had a few close calls with tornado less than a mile away !

    senorpiero [at] yahoo [dot] com

  441. My most freightening experience was when a tornado touched down near a carnival I was at when I was in high school. The weather changed so fast and people were running every which way. It was totally crazy.

    longbarb1@aol.com

  444. When I was living in Florida 3 tornadoes came through one night. We were lucky but about a half mile from our home a tornado struck. The devastation and loss of life was terrible. Having this close of an experience was really frightening.