Reba, yeah I thought it was!There were a few times when I was a kid I was literally scared that I was gonna die - 2 of them were the tornado instances I just referred to.
In the car-driving one I mentioned, the tornado which we were <stupidly> trying to outrun actually took out an apartment building shortly after we passed it. My mom remembers seeing it in the mirror and thinking that was the end. I remember being in that car as my dad tried to keep it <a big old 60's or 70's 4-door hardtop Buick "boat"> on the road...I was screaming and the wind was screaming too and the thing was rocking and rolling all over the place.
One of the other time involved not forces of nature but human forces. It was one of the 3 times that we thought had - or in at least one instance did have - break-ins in my house in the neighborhood where I grew up.
I was scared for both my mom and myself..heard noises coming from outside, on the back porch that was just next to one of my bedroom windows. It was late at night and my dad worked third shift.
I had to go past that window to get to my parents room. I was scared someone was going to shoot me through the window so I crawled on the floor past the window and woke up my mom in their room down the hall.
I took her close to my room and she heard it too and she ran back and called the cops...then we heard something the basement. She was crying and said "he's in the house". She told me to stay there and I hid behind my dad's tall <to me, I was again, probably between 8 and 11> nightstand. From my vantage point I could kinda see -and hear her- take a knife from the kitchen drawer <it was small, "not-in-the-best-shape" house in an urban neighborhood> and she went to the head of the basement stairs and yelled "get the hell out of my house!" I was terrified, thought for sure he'd come up and kill both of us.
BUT- my dad yelled back up - "WHAT?" and she yelled his name...
and the cops arrived, and cuffed him...he had left for work and come back to get something. My dad was....not pleased....
A few weeks prior my mom witnessed, from that kitchen, someone trying to get in the house, she yelled, and my dad was home and he came in and the person they saw outside trying to break in, ran away.
During that time we also had a naked "peeping Tom" person going around
looking in people's windows, particularly in girl's or women's windows - my friend's older sister saw him looking in on her. That I just found gross and the break-in thing with the stranger - I actually was asleep when that happened and didn't wake up.
But the first incident when we thought my poor dad was an intruder, ohh I was soooo scared in that one!
Reba
I've been in school and working for so long I seriously don't know what to do with all the free time!!!!!! OMG!!! I'm going crazy!!! 
I should be studying now but instead I'm vegging out to T.V. T.V.... what's that? I can actually watch T.V. now? Wow, I've missed some stuff! I think I'll start going to the gym more and be constructive! I don't want to become lazy or anything. :P