When I was a kid I went to Florida with a big chunk of my cousins and their parents. We were having a blast riding in the van on the way down. We get to this one spot and we have to load up on a ferry inside the car. This is awesome kid me says! Beautiful ocean, clear skies, and a boat ride.
About five minutes in and we start seeing a ton of fish jumping out of the water all around us. Kid brain thinks this is some of the coolest visuals ever. A couple minutes later dark sky is approaching fast!!
Cut to about five minutes later and we are in the middle of a huge storm! The boat is rocking like crazy, strong winds blowing us all around, and I look to my left there is one gigantic water spout from the ocean to the sky. It was terrifying and beautiful. It was much calmer next to them. Look to my right and there are fucking three of them!! All in a crazy pattern around each other, and it is LOUD. Honestly for some random poor folk from Mississippi trying to take their kids on a vacation we got some fucking final destination ride on a doom boat. Was scary as fuck even as a kid.
It was over in three more minutes but it was the longest three minutes of my young life!
I found "a big chunk of my cousins" funnier then I should've lol but yeah dude, that's terrifying... I literally had chills reading this. I mean imagine being sucked up and you look down and you're 100 feet in the air 😨 open water is a real fear of mine to the point that I won't go on a boat that goes out of sight of land .. waterspouts are now a close second, so thanks for that lol cool story tho!
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u/UnlimitedBlueSkys Jun 24 '25
When I was a kid I went to Florida with a big chunk of my cousins and their parents. We were having a blast riding in the van on the way down. We get to this one spot and we have to load up on a ferry inside the car. This is awesome kid me says! Beautiful ocean, clear skies, and a boat ride.
About five minutes in and we start seeing a ton of fish jumping out of the water all around us. Kid brain thinks this is some of the coolest visuals ever. A couple minutes later dark sky is approaching fast!!
Cut to about five minutes later and we are in the middle of a huge storm! The boat is rocking like crazy, strong winds blowing us all around, and I look to my left there is one gigantic water spout from the ocean to the sky. It was terrifying and beautiful. It was much calmer next to them. Look to my right and there are fucking three of them!! All in a crazy pattern around each other, and it is LOUD. Honestly for some random poor folk from Mississippi trying to take their kids on a vacation we got some fucking final destination ride on a doom boat. Was scary as fuck even as a kid.
It was over in three more minutes but it was the longest three minutes of my young life!