weather

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).

L

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!

Tracey

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!

Natalie

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

Stacy

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.

JessieWessie

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.

traq

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

kayrenee

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.

Hellybear

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).

Rain

I remember asking my mother why there are clouds in the sky. She told me they are there so they could clean up our cars when driving on a cloudy day...

qfemale

I was too young to understand what the weather map was and thought it was some kind of animal. This has a good basis since Kermit the Frog did the weather and I figured he was using an outline drawing of some other animal. This was on Channel 5, Washington, DC, around 1960.

mary

i wasn't a religious child, but when i was about 6 or 7 i used to believe that god had to pee when it rained.

marune

My older sister used to beleive that when it rained, the angels in heaven were having a spitting contest

Doblica W.

When I was 9, we moved to California from back east. The house we lived in had a view of the valley with the ocean at the end. Every night when the sun would go down there would be fog soon after. My dad told me that the fog was actually the steam from the sun going into the ocean! No, I don't believe that now!!

Sue from San Jose

I always believed that you had to carry a little hammer in the car when driving through freezing fog. I just couldnt understand how else you would be able to contiue with your journey unless you smashed a little hole in the fog!

Chelle Fox

When I was a child I used to believe that at the end of the rainbow you could find a pot of gold and other treasures but you only could take it if it was in your field

Claudia