Ever experienced a natural disaster?

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I have been in the hurricane in South East England, and our town was also flooded to about 5 feet deep. I found a man and his dog who had been swept down the river in the flood who were thankfully both alive
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We had a storm a couple years ago that washed out bridges on the main highway going north and wiped out whole communities. My house was on an island, I nothing moved for a couple weeks. Im not sure if anyone was hurt or not in this area but I think there were some people hurt or killed in Ti Juana. We had a tsunami scare last year, but it was a false alarm.
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yes, I was in a blizzard where the whole city lost power for over a week and the temp was -25 degrees and no one had heat or hardly food
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Fran, I would think so. These days that would be comparable with an asteroid striking the earth. :lol:
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Multiple blizzards and a few nasty ice storms in my life. That's about as bad as it has gotten for me.
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We have earthquakes all the time in Tokyo, but I've never experienced one of the disastrous ones. I lived in a different part of Japan when the big one happened in 2011, but even that affected us due to people buying up stuff in the stores to send to family/friends in the damaged areas.
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We get rumbles here every now and then, but no big deal. Theres a volcano about 20 kilometers south of here that puffs of smoke come out of sometimes. They say it erupts every 600 years. It last erupted 600 years ago. Wonder if I should be concerned? :animals-dogrun:
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Bighuey wrote:We get rumbles here every now and then, but no big deal. Theres a volcano about 20 kilometers south of here that puffs of smoke come out of sometimes. They say it erupts every 600 years. It last erupted 600 years ago. Wonder if I should be concerned? :animals-dogrun:
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I have experienced earthquakes, tornados, and blizzards. Not on the same day tho.
The only devestating natural disaster I have been subjected to is my last romantic relationship.
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Ive had a few of those myself. :lol:

When I was a kid in Lewiston, Idaho in 1949 they had a really bad winter. The Clearwater river froze over and when the thaw came chunks of ice as big as houses mixed with logs they floated downriver to the pulp mill at Lewiston tore out bridges, flooded part of the town and made a real mess. Where the Clearwater connected with the Snake buildings were washed away and some were found miles down the river. At Moscow, up the hill on the prairie about 30 miles away it got down to 60 below zero. Cars would freeze up while driving them. People who lived there said the very air was blue. As far as I know, they havent had a winter like that since. Lewiston is normally a very mild climate, they call it the banana belt. An old lady who lived next door grew tobacco and made her own cigars. Hotter than hell in the summer, tho.
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RJohnReves wrote:I have experienced earthquakes, tornados, and blizzards. Not on the same day tho.
The only devestating natural disaster I have been subjected to is my last romantic relationship.
This made me laugh so hard.
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Hm... I live in Louisville, and several years back, we experienced the following in rapid succession: a windstorm from a hurricane, hailstorms, a flash flood that destroyed all the new books in the main library's basement downtown, and then an ice storm that uprooted trees onto houses and cars.

The windstorm was unlike anything I've experienced. Obviously, Louisville is pretty land-locked and you don't expect hurricanes to come here. As such, I've never really experienced a hurricane. Albeit we only got hurricane winds, but I still remember sitting out on the porch and watching a child's ball blow from all the way to my left to all the way to my right. Spooky. Then we started getting hail here, and never before in my life had I seen hail, but suddenly, it seems to happen here twice a year now! (It must be the end of times.)
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These tiny earthquakes still scare me half to death!
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Earthquakes, hurricanes, and lava flows! Just the kind of place I live. I'm not even twenty years old!
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