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So because of the east coast earthquake and the one in CO today, what natural disasters have you experienced?
I'm saying actually affected by it. Like having to evacuate an area because something was coming.
I don't think having your flight delayed would count. Unless you're in the airport and a tornado hits the airport.
For me, I've only experienced flooding while I lived in PA. Well, I guess blizzards, too. Like the blizzard of 2007 and 1996.
Experienced my first earthquake today. I'm from NY so I've experienced a TON of blizzards and also one extreme ice storm.
When I was younger, a tornado came through our town and hit our church and destroyed an Albertson's. I remember I was at my gymnastics class that day and we could see the tornado from the building! I also remember that my sister was grocery shopping when it hit, and she had randomly chosed to shop at the store across the street from the one it hit, even though she usually shopped at the Albertson's. Crazy, crazy stuff.
I was just thinking about this a few minutes ago! I've experienced floods, hurricanes (and tropical storms and depressions), blizzards, tornadoes, and now an earthquake!
I've been lucky not to have personally experienced any of these, but I grew up in Oklahoma, so tornadoes were always a close threat, and now I live in Florida and have been through several hurricane scares. It seems like you can't go anywhere!
I grew up in the Midwest and Tornadoes happen. One actually jumped over our house and came back down in the corn field across the road!
Then there are blizzards, we had like a 6 week Christmas break once b/c it was snowing so hard and drifting so badly.
And I live near a major river in Indiana and it floods every Spring--they have to close roads.
EDIT: My fresman year of college, we had an earthquake. I was pulling an all nighter to finish up a research project/paper. So when I crawled into bed, it was 5:45 a.m. and all of a sudden my dorm room started shaking. At first I thought it was construction but then was like "wtf at 6 am?" Then I realized it was an earthquake so I woke my roommate up and told her and she replied "oh okay, it's just an earthquake." It wasn't bad, but I woke up at 11 am to the aftershock. It was just a really weird sensation since I'd never been through one.
I am from Miami and was there during Hurricane Andrew. Also, we were stationed in Japan during the Kobe earthquake..... I am unlucky. Hurricane Andrew destroyed everything we owned. I was a child but it was one of the most vivid memories, walking towards the car and watching out patio furniture blow away. My favorite memory as a child with my grandma was going to McDonald's and she said into the drive thru "give me everything you have". And they did. She was very wealthy and bought them out, we drove back to where the damage was the worst and handed out breakfasts to people that had nothing but the clothes on their backs. Grown women were hugging me like I was their best friend. I've never felt so much, especially so young. We were not in the actual Kobe earthquake, but my family went to help with the cleanup and we had families stay in our home for many months afterwards.
I have lived in California, so I did experience some earthquakes while I lived there. I have lived in Iowa most of my life, and while here I have experiences some pretty heavy duty t-storms, some very high winds, a couple of tornadoes, and some nasty ice storms and blizzards. We also just had some horrible flooding in Cedar Rapids in 2008 and we are still recovering from that as a city.
i've had a tornado go right past a couple years ago, it was a couple streets over. I have been in a blizzard twice in my life. we had the leftovers of a hurricane in 03 which caused major flooding and 2 earthquakes that I felt. I have to say an earthquake is the worst because there is no warning its just bam everything shakes
I've had Earthquakes now after today adding to my list of Floods, Blizzards, Tornadoes, many hurricanes and a few wild fires. VA gets a lot! LOL Not to mention Ice storms and very cold winters or extreme heat.
In Jersey:
Blizzards are a way of life in Upstate, NY. Some years we'll be lucky and scrape by with only 1 bad storm but normally we get absolutely pounded. I've experiened many state of emergencies in my day. The most memorable was the blizzard of '94 when I was living in NYC. I remember being snowed in to the point where the only exit to the outside world was through the second story bedroom window. The snow was so high and condensed that we were able to slide right out the window down to the ground. The split second of fun was followed by HOURS of shoveling to try to dig out the front door.
I hate NY.
I grew up in southern CA so I've been through several earthquakes. I remember in school, we were always taught to duck, cover, and hold.
In Virginia alone:
tornado, microburst, major snow (3-4 feet), hurricane, and there was a flood in Richmond, but that didn't affect me directly.
plus the earthquake today.
We've had lots of small earthquakes here, and a few more noticeable ones. And I caught the swine flu in 2009, which the WHO classified as a pandemic. That's about it. Pretty lame, huh?
I have at least half a dozen friends who live in Tornado Alley and twice that many who were affected by today's earthquake. I see so many FB status updates about tornado warnings it's not even funny, and I always thank my lucky stars I live somewhere that mother nature is reasonably kind to.
None so far in my lifetime! Had to replace a roof for hail...does that count?
Also, if you haven't read about these people...well, let's just say the earth seems to have a bone to pick with them!
http://www.cnbc.com/id/42468015/One_Honeymoon_6_Natural_Disasters_for_Swedish_Couple
Just blizzards here in Atlantic Canada. We do get the tail end of hurricanes, but it's usually a Cat 1 or tropical storm at that point. Very "safe" place geographically.
During our honeymoon this February we went to Australia. We landed right after the Brisbane floods, but we spend a few days in Cairns. However we got the very last plane out the day the hurricane hit. Our plane was flying in all the turbulent winds but we made it. When we left Melbourne they started to experience flooding and then our last week in Sydney it was one of the hottest weeks in history! It was insane but lucky for us.
I am from the prairies in Canada so we experience many many MANY blizzards and long streaks of -30 -40 and even -50 weather. We also get our fair share of tornadoes!
@Mrs.ChubbyBunny: CB, I love that story! I remember Hurricane Andrew--all of those poor people spray painting their insurance info on their garage doors is what I remember. That, and the complete devastation.
I know the earthquake didn't last long, but I was honestly scared that the building was going to collapse on us. It shook so hard and we had to run down the stairs along a huge glass facade (our building is completely glass in front). It was really scary.
I've experienced several earthquakes because I grew up in CA (never thought I would experience one on the east coast though!)
Experienced a few blizzards - one in DC in 2009 and several in CT because I went to college there
And I've experienced a hurricane - my family was vacationing in OBX and had to evacuate
I'm from the midwest, so really just snow. Lots of tornadoes around us, but none that directly affected me. I had friends devastated by the disasterous tornado in Joplin, near my hometown, so I am little more weary of bad weather than ever before.
My DH encountered the earthquake today! His first disaster!
I grew up with tornados nearly every summer. I remember watching them come across the fields until my mother would scream at us to come inside. We had a few things blow away, but never any major damage, thank goodness. Even at our camper I've sat out 3 or 4 of them...definitely a crazy experience.
Then I moved up to ND just in time for their first major flood in a decade, where I scraped over 8 inches of snow off my car to go sandbag. No fun! Of all of them, I hate floods the most because it's nerve-wracking for weeks on end, waiting to see how high it will get and if the dykes will hold. Blizzards suck, but at least you usually know ahead of time to get food and supplies. Tornados scare me the least because they are there and then they're gone and you pick up the pieces, but people think I'm crazy when I say I'd take a tornado over a flood any day so maybe it's just me.
Lots of blizzards, a few avalanches (thankfully not in them!), a wild fire and a super typhoon in Guam!
I would like to know what epicdemics were people experienced?
I'm from Buffalo, so I guess I experience "blizzards" a lot, but to us Buffalonians, its just a bit of snow!
I was just talking about earthquakes today with a friend. When we were both in 6th grade and needed our school immunizations we took the day off to go get them (two different places) Next day come to find out we were in almost the exact same situation I had the needle almost touching my arm when it happened and luckily my nurse was quick and dropped the needle and pushed us back against the door jamb. My friend wasn't so lucky hers was being put in her arm ... But that earthquake (now thinkign about it, it could have been pretty bad) But at the time All I remember is laughing because I could see the floors rolling and I was trying to balance. I didn't know what the heck was going on.
Ice Storm 98! (or was it 97? Can't remember) It was great, it came at the tail end of christmas holidays so we had about 5 weeks off total. AND the awesome Westin hotel in downtown Ottawa still had power, and was offering rooms at 10% of regular price to people affected by the storm - so we got adjoining rooms for my sister & i and my parents, and stayed for 4 nights at about $25/night! We had SO MUCH FUN, swam and vegged out all day, then went to movies in the attached mall every night.
In Ottawa my high school also had a viral meningitis epidemic, 3 people died within a week - it was one of the scariest things i've ever experienced. I think that would have been 94?
Man - I've experienced a lot of these!
I voted for "tsunami," since I did experience what was technically a tsunami, but it was only six inches high by the time it reached me.
I just watched the YouTube video I posted for the first time in over a year. It's gotten hundreds of reviews telling me I'm an insensitive bitch for posting it because I guess it came up when people were looking for footage of the big tsunami in Japan a few months ago. :(
I grew up in Indonesia, on an island which experiences both volcanic and tectonic earthquakes very often. I have probably experienced more than 10 earthquakes in my life, the strongest being slightly over 7 scale richter. I have experienced 2 or 3 volcano eruption with no damage caused, just the ash for few days. In some parts of my country tsunami happened few times, but I never experienced first hand *thank God*
I experienced my first quake in Seattle in 2001 (Nisqually earthquake). Since moving to California I've felt a few little rumbles, nothing crazy, just like blinds swinging back and forth.
I grew up in Southern Illinois so there was always the possibility for tornados. We had a lot of tornado warnings/watches, but I've never seen one.
The winter that I lived in Chicago (1994) was one of the worst winters they had in about 20 years. They would cancel school for fear that the children would get frost bite at the bus stop, but I don't know that it was ever technically a blizzard. However I remember making slides and tunnels through the mounds of snow (about 5-6 feet high?) they plowed in our apartment complex's driveway/parking lot.
Flooding due to Hurricanes we had to shut down my college for a few days and there was a lot of damage as well as streets shut down. Tons of blizzards, a few tornados (this has gotten worse over the past few years). The worst natural disaster I've been through here in PA though had to be the ice storm that hit on Valentines day 2007... everything was shut down... thick solid ice was over top everything! It took us 2 days to dig out our cars and the roads were awful for a week! We were stuck here in 14 degree weather with no electricity for an entire day... everything was so dark and quiet.
Of course the earthquake yesterday but we weren't evacuated (just stopped for hours on the highway because of bridges being shut down).
- Tornados - more than I can count. I watch a cat 5 tornado blow up a school from the back seat of a Edsil(75), lost my garage(95), watched my neighbors roof leave(84), just a ton.
-Floods - we are still flooded:( we are a river town, floods are a threat every summer and flash floods happen all the time
-Hurricane- we were evacuated out of our hotel and my company brought in private planes to get us out of florida right before Andrew (I think)
-wild fires- we were on vacation in sw colorado in mesa verde when they closed the park for wild fires, getting to denver was terrifying as almost every road thru the mountains was super thick with smoke
-blizzards - again to many to count (75,78,84,96,03,11 are the big ones that come to mind)
-epidemics- when I was little, they closed all the schools for mumps. I didn't get it, but most of the kids I knew did and since my mom was a SAHM, our house was full of sick kids as my mom took care of them so other moms could go to work
@daniellealys: I checked "epidemic"-- when I was living in West Africa there was a cholera epidemic. I was very careful about the water and food I consumed and managed to avoid getting it, but of course not everyone was so lucky.
I've also experienced blizzards and hurricanes. And yesterday's earthquake, if I can count that, although I was pretty far from the epicenter!
Houston floods really easily. I remember during Tropical Storm Allison in 2001, my parents and I started moving all of our stuff up onto tables and chairs because the water level in the street was rising so quickly. I think it only went about halfway up the lawn, but we were lucky. Our neighbors on the next street over got totally flooded out.
Hurricane Ike was the worst. I didn't have power for 16 days. The first week after the storm was actually kind of scary. Most stores also didn't have power, so if they were open at all, they didn't have much and it was cash only. A cousin of mine got robbed at gunpoint for his package of bottled water as he was leaving a gas station.
I'd gladly go through another hurricane before a tornado, though. Tornados scare the sh$t out of me. They're so destrictive and unpredictable. I've never been in one, but I've had a few close calls.
Um, I don't know if this counts. When I was 12, I slept through an earthquake in California's Bay Area. I don't think it was super strong though. I remember waking up and my cousins and aunt were downstairs. They said they tried to wake me up, but I wasn't budging lol. Luckily, only a few picture frames fell from the walls. There was no other damage and no injuries.
When I was 7, my mom had to leave me home alone so she could drive through the floodwaters to get sandbags. I think the floods had just started. I don't remember details about the weather that day, I just remember pigging out on cookies since she wasn't there for about an hour lol.
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