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I'm with you .. Tornado's ... we've had some teeny tiny ones, nothing like the midwest, and the destruction they caused is amazingly terrifying.   I've been thru blizzards and hurricanes but the tornado's scare the crap out of me.

Tsunami's - They leave such widespread devastation/disease and when the surge goes out so many people think it is safe and venture out to the beach and WHAM! get swept away.

I am weird and LOVE tornadoes. They are awe inspiring. I hate for people to lose everything or die but in unpopulated areas they are amazing.

Tornados!

They typically aren't very large in Florida, but they always hit at like 2 am. I love storms, but something about one popping up in the middle of the night gives me the willies. 

I love hurricanes...something about being able to watch the wind like that.

Hurricanes. The flood AND wind that accomany it.

Tornadoes.  I have dreams where an EF 5 is chasing me wherever direction I go.

It's interesting that Tornados are considered the scariest natural disaster when at least those can be predicted, to a degree.  I mean, it might veer off course or whatever.  But a general warning is issued and you can go underground or make whatever preparations you need.

An earthquake comes out of nowhere-literally.  It's way scarier to be completely caught off guard like that.  Okay, that's my opinion:)

@PutABirdOnIt:  Meterologists can only predict the possibility of a tornado which ends up being often so some people get really relaxed about it when tornado watches and warnings come on for days.  Sirens only do some much and if you live out the country/rural like much of the midwest, you don't hear them at all.  Weather radios help though.  Living in the midwest and the potential of tornadoes from Sping through Fall is a huge time period.  You can't outrun tornadoes when they touchdown. Even getting underground doesn't prevent the possibility of death since tornadoes vary a bit in severity.  This spring our weather was particularly bad, we had two tornadoes touch down in my county, not to mention the others in the rest of the state.  The sirens went off three times in less than 24 hours which is a little nervewracking b/c you don't know if you'll be in your car when one touches down or out shopping where there isn't a basement.

However, if I lived on the West Coast I'd be pretty nervous about Earthquakes, especially around San Francisco--ugh, landslides and building collapsing is terrible.  I read somewhere that there's a "Big One" overdue.

@beekiss: That's true-I do realize they can be unpredictable and do a lot of damage in a short time.  Plus, they happen every year.  So, I can see the terror for sure.  I guess I feel that if I had some warning, I would feel like I had a bit of control. I could at least try to prepare for a just in case scenario.

With an earthquake, there is no warning and no control.  You could be in an elevator, a parking garage, an underpass of a freeway, with tons of concrete over your head wondering when the last bridge inspection was.  Once I was standing in front of my college library waiting for it to open for a geology mid-term (oh, the irony:) and the entire front is made of glass-four stories high.

There was a bunch of us just waiting for the doors to open when that glass started to vibrate from a huge earthquake, we all just looked at each other and RAN like rabbits.  It didn't break, but the idea that it could have was bad enough.  A few years later half the campus was destroyed by the Northridge quake but it happened at 4:30 in the morning. So, there you go:)