> What is the worst weather everyone's actually been out and about in? This includes anything in the open air, or in transit to somewhere else inside a car, train etc. Being inside also counts if the building you were in was damaged by the weather.

Mine was probably after being forced to play football in the school games lesson. I was in something of a minority there (still am) in that I absolutely loathed playing that game. My idea of hell is the eternal game of football, where everyone is bigger than me, there's a biting wind, and the ref's whistle never, ever seems to blow. Oh wait, that's what this was like. It was the only time that my hands have ever got so cold that my fingers seized up. This wouldn't have been so bad in itself, except that I immediately had to get changed out of my wholly inadequate games kit and back into my school uniform for the trek back across town to catch a bus. (The school, in their infinite wisdom, had placed the sports field half a mile from the main buildings.) Obviously, buttons were almost impossible to do up, and shoelaces were a dead loss, so I ended up with only two buttons done up on my shirt and my coat zipped up on the outside so that I didn't actually flash at everyone on the way through town. My hands only melted enough to work again (and it did actually feel like melting) once I was on the bus and could put them down by the heaters. That's probably small fry in relation to everyone else's, but it wasn't nice at the time...

Si-"Anyone else hated the mainstream sport?"-gi