Natural disasters Own Humans
 

Well, I just have to say storms suck, very very very much.

Guess what happened over the weekend people. Want to know, we lost power, almost the entire town lost power, we lost it saturday night, and you know something even worse? It's STILL NOT BACK YET! I am only able to post because thank god, my friend has power and i'm at his house.

Want to know something even worse? Two trees fell onto my brother's car. That's right TWO not one trees fell onto my brothers car. So sufice it to say, I am really angry right now.

So to the actual topic, what other natural disasters have you been in that have affected you massively?

Except for the Tsunami I've never really been affected, my family knew some people that were in the tsunami region at the time.

You have to ask yourself if the guys from the american x-treme shows are right. "our weather is becoming more and more x-treme, and now we can show you the most x-treme of the x-treme."
Be it global warming or the natural rythm of the planet there's not much we can do about it, we can slow the process down if it's global warming, but it's not likely humans can counter natures advance.

I lived in South Florida until May of 2004. We had hurricanes (Worst was Andrew in my opinion.), we also had the odd firestorm, especally back in 1999.

I live in Key West Florida, which is the southern most island in Florida. Aside from the millions of dollars in damages that occur every time we get hit by a hurricane it ain't that bad. A 300 dollar generator is probably the best investment you can ever make because we always loose power in big storms. The plus side is all the tourists get evicted whenever there's a hurricane coming so the traffic disappears. The actual most damaging storm we've had recently wasn't Andrew or Katrina but Wilma because the tidal surge it brought flooded 95% of Key West. Thanks to the Gulf stream most hurricanes skip over us into northern Florida.

I live in East Mobile. Ivan took out every tree in our yard and most of our roof.
Oh and the left side wall of our house.

I live in the Midwest; my town gets gang-raped by tornadoes every now and then. They make off with the trailer parks and uproot a ton of trees.

Freak blizzard last year. All public transport grinded to a halt, and there was a warning not to go out.

Guess what? 12 kilometers from home, I have no, vehicular, means of getting home.

Just a little while longer, and my legs would have been frozen. I had bruises on them from the sheer cold.

Makes you ponder the whole "Flood of the CENTURY, people!" thing the German media have going on, doesn't it?

It's times like this that I am glad I've in mountains, and very much inland. No hurricane or tornados here.

Of course, I also live about 2 miles away from a fault line. So when the big one hits, I am so screwed.

This is one of the reasons I come to appreciate Canada, or at least the part of Canada I live in. It's both bloody hot (typically 30-35C high) in the summer and bloody cold (typically -25 to -35C, depending on windchill index) in the winter, but we seem to evade extreme weather. I've never seen a tornado, and by the time a hurricane drifts up here, it's just a prolonged rain shower.

I guess the most "extreme" weather I've ever experienced myself is the Ice Storm (of 1997, yes?). We had multiple days of constant freezing rain, which accumulated onto EVERYTHING as solid ice. The weight built up, trees, power lines, even some buildings collapsed. We personally lost all power for about three days, but some people in the area lost it for weeks. A tree near the house I was living in then collapsed and broke our fence.