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Posted: 1/27/2023 9:15:01 PM EST

[#1]

Andrew
Katrina
Typhoon Paka
Harvey

And at least a dozen other less severe hurricanes.

Posted: 1/27/2023 9:16:57 PM EST

[#2]

The “Sneak Attack” Tornado. Omaha 1975

Been through a couple Hurricanes but not the worst of them.

Posted: 1/27/2023 9:17:11 PM EST

[#3]

Several Tornados
A couple of Ice Storms, without power for weeks
A redhead certified bipolar crazy gal named Kristi

Posted: 1/27/2023 9:17:39 PM EST

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Lots of hurricanes and tropical storms in my life. But Harvey takes the cake. Driving my boat down city streets was and still is surreal.

Refinery explosions are a trip too.

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I moved to Florida just in time to get run over by hurricanes frances and jeanne. Way out in the groves with no power for 2 weeks then a week. No generator and my bedroom had 3 inches of water in it. Slept on the leather couch and woke up everyday stuck to that couch

Posted: 1/27/2023 9:20:07 PM EST

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Sandy

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Posted: 1/27/2023 9:24:46 PM EST

[#6]

I was in Christchurch for the November 14, 2016 Kaikoura earthquake. 7.8 magnitude.

Posted: 1/27/2023 9:25:39 PM EST

[#7]

2005.
Katrina.

Posted: 1/27/2023 9:26:36 PM EST

[#8]

Moved out to L.A. a few months after the Rodney King riots.

I was living near the corner Sunset and Laurel Canyon Blvds.

I was 10X more leary of what would happen on the anniversary of "the moments of civil unrest" than I was about any natural disasters. Earthquakes would be an example of that.

I'd felt slight tremors before, here and there -thought to myself: "Huh. That's what an earthquake feels like? Man, California's are a bunch of pussies."

Then on January 17, 1994, at 4:30 in the AM:
the Northridge Earthquake happened. While it was going on, I truly believed that it was going to be curtains for me. I felt like a bug in a match box being shaken by a child.

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Posted: 1/27/2023 9:26:54 PM EST

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The most interesting one I've read about is the "year without a summer" which happened in 1816.

Unfortunately it's tough nowadays to find an article that didn't reference "climate change". Which is utterly ridiculous.

Basically a volcano erupted, which volcanos naturally do, but it was a big one. Shot a whole fuck ton of ash into the sky in the entire western hemisphere. Lots of people in America and Europe died from starvation. Apparently very very little sunlight made it through the thick cloud.

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Mt Tambora, 1816. 7 on the Volcano Explosivity Index. Which goes to 8, for things like Yellowstone, Long Caldera, and Taupo. St. Helen's was a 5, for those keeping score at home. The stratosphere aerosol was evidently thick enough that you could look at the Sun with the naked eye, and see sunspots.

Posted: 1/27/2023 9:27:23 PM EST

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"Terrible Tuesday" . . . 1979 . . . Five funnels merged into one funnel over a mile wide . . . stayed on the ground for 20 minutes minutes and covered 30 miles . . . 42 dead.

Posted: 1/27/2023 9:29:44 PM EST

[#11]

Tornado 2016, probably took a few years of my life and a decade off my neighbors who lost their whole house. We try not to think about it honestly.

Posted: 1/27/2023 9:34:26 PM EST

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2008 ice storm, western KY.

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That was a mess too,

Posted: 1/27/2023 9:35:42 PM EST

[#13]

Tuscaloosa Tornado 4/27/2011.
Was headed right for me then turned right and went south a few blocks. Son heard three looting arrests out his open second floor window the first night. Then the National Guard arrived and put that $#!+ to bed.

Posted: 1/27/2023 9:39:48 PM EST

[#14]

Not yet and my anxiety level is through the roof.

Posted: 1/27/2023 9:41:38 PM EST

[#15]

Best I got is the Northridge quake of 1993(i think it was 93), I was living in orange county, so there was no damage, but it was quite a scary quake and usually would not even get out of bed unless it was a 6.X or bigger. That quake was the first to really scare me.

Posted: 1/27/2023 9:42:25 PM EST

[#16]

Katrina 2005.

Posted: 1/27/2023 9:42:40 PM EST

[#17]

The biggest natural disaster I’ve ever faced is myself. I won, of course.

Posted: 1/27/2023 9:43:59 PM EST

[#18]

Not really "natural" But a woke liberal bitch started a fire in my apartment complex that destroy my apartment. Nothing like coming home from work and seeing 20' flames coming out of your bedroom.

My main concern was my "room mate" aka girlfriend. She was nowhere to be scene. Found out she was ok, and after that just let it ride. Lots of friends helped out with living rooms for a few months, then got a place to stay again.

Posted: 1/27/2023 9:44:18 PM EST

[#19]

Biden.

Posted: 1/27/2023 9:45:19 PM EST

[#20]

1971 San Fernando earthquake (Richter scale 6.6) and the 1994 Northridge earthquake (Richter Scale 6.7). These quakes were felt for about 1.1-1.3 minutes, so I think other natural disasters are worse (until they aren't).

Posted: 1/27/2023 9:46:40 PM EST

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A half a dozen hurricanes and a tornado. I lost a house on Bolivar Peninsula to hurricane Ike and another to a tornado in April 2020. I was on the second floor of this house when it came apart. When it first started shaking, before it came apart I thought we (my pup & I) were done. Once the roof blew off and the side walls left it quit shaking so bad and I felt like we had a chance.

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Posted: 1/27/2023 9:47:39 PM EST

[#22]

March, 1993 Superstorm. 5 feet of snow, 10 foot drifts. I know that's just another Tuesday for all you hardcore Arfcommers in the Northern Hell Lands, but it was a natural disaster in Southern Middle Tennessee where 3 inches close schools for a week.

Posted: 1/27/2023 9:49:05 PM EST

[#23]

Haven’t been through any devastating natural disaster in almost 48 years, thankfully.

Posted: 1/27/2023 9:50:48 PM EST

[#24]

The Columbus Day Storm, 1962
Steaming through a typhoon in the northwest Pacific Ocean, 1976
Mt St. Helens, 1980
Several forest fires
Ice storms
Snow storms

Posted: 1/27/2023 9:55:34 PM EST

[#25]

I’m on Sanibel Island today moving what little remains out of my house. It is what it is. My people are fine.

Posted: 1/27/2023 9:57:02 PM EST

[#26]

Lost a house to a 'Nader

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Posted: 1/27/2023 9:57:05 PM EST

[#27]

Hurricane Ivan was pretty bad.

Posted: 1/27/2023 10:06:28 PM EST

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Hurricane Hugo blew through Charlotte in September 1989

We are a city of trees, mostly large oaks

We lost many thousands and with the trees went our power grid

We were among the last to get power back, 3 weeks

BUT, it was noting like Andrew

I was sitting on the sofa watching the news footage. Unimaginable destruction across Florida

I cried for you guys, I did

And then I bought and donated needed supplies

I hope it got to you

Posted: 1/27/2023 10:07:19 PM EST

[#29]

Ramstein air show disaster.
August 28, 1988.

Posted: 1/27/2023 10:09:31 PM EST

[#30]

Snowpocalypse 2023. We will rebuild.

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Posted: 1/27/2023 10:10:16 PM EST

[#31]

Walking around outside in the eye of a hurricane is pretty damn cool.

Posted: 1/27/2023 10:10:40 PM EST

[#32]

Three for me:

Simi/San Fernando Ring of Fire, 1970
Sylmar earthquake, 1971
Mt. Saint Helens, 1980

Posted: 1/27/2023 10:13:44 PM EST

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Posted: 1/27/2023 10:16:31 PM EST

[#34]

In Montana
Big snow storm that hit when I was little in the 1970s.
Mount St. Helen's eruption
Yellowstone fire in the 1980s and big fire in Bulls. Fucking smoke was unreal and very hard on my asthma.

Alaska
The cold front that stalled out for about a month in 88/89.
A couple of river break-ups that were pretty high for here.
Multiple tundra fire that smoked the hell out of us.
Daughter was in Anchorage for the last big earthquake.
The late fall former typhoon storm that sent a shit load of water up the river and the wind. 2022
Coldest late fall in 2022

I know I am forgetting some.

Posted: 1/27/2023 10:18:44 PM EST

[#35]

Canes aren't too bad.

Wild fires suck. You basically stand there for days awaiting the wall of fire to come consume your house.

Posted: 1/27/2023 10:20:49 PM EST

[#36]

Probably the Mount St. Helens eruption back in'80. I was a kid working at the Burgerville USA on Market ST in Salem (OR). Everyone KNEW the thing was going to blow (We'd been watching it for weeks. I was cooking bacon that morning (To go on the hamburgers though out the day) and someone said "hey, the volcano just blew!". We all climbed up on the roof of the restaurant and watched it.

Posted: 1/27/2023 10:21:55 PM EST

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Canes aren't too bad.

Wild fires suck. You basically stand there for days awaiting the wall of fire to come consume your house.

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I remember going up 95 and seeing burnt out land on both sides and the middle. Some big clouds of smoke I drove through once. Forest fires are no joke.

Posted: 1/27/2023 10:24:11 PM EST

[#38]

Tunguska event of 1908

Posted: 1/27/2023 10:25:01 PM EST

[#39]

Bermuda 1995 Hurricane Felix

Daytona Beach 2016 Hurricane Matthew

Posted: 1/27/2023 10:26:00 PM EST

[#40]

Being born. I'm still trying to recover from it.

Posted: 1/27/2023 10:29:43 PM EST

[#41]

I think I've had that "black cloud" following me all through life. Lived in Corpus Christi for Carla in 1961. Moved to Thibodaux La. just in time for Betsy in 1965. Moved to Lubbock Tx and rode out the May 11, 1970 tornado. None of those caused my family any real loss. But then came the flood of 1998 on the Guadalupe river in Seguin, Texas and we lost everything but luckily no injuries. Since then we have rebuilt and life is good.

Posted: 1/27/2023 10:30:02 PM EST

[#42]

The "Flood of '87" and "The Ice Storm".

Posted: 1/27/2023 10:30:23 PM EST

[#43]

Hurricane Frederick 1979. Did get electricity back in a little over a week and water within 24 hours due to a sewage treatment plant nearby, though. Took over a month to get telephone service back. Rough not having an AC when the humidity is really high.

Posted: 1/27/2023 10:37:03 PM EST

[#44]

Aurora IL, late 90s. 24+ inches of rain in 24 hours. Wasn't a big life-threatening thing, but it completely wrecked major portions of the city.

Posted: 1/27/2023 10:38:01 PM EST

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Hurricane Sandy. Didn't leave work for 3 days. Worked 12s, ate, showered, and slept.

My house was fine, as were my family's. I only lost power at home for 3 hours, some lost it for around 2 weeks.

Posted: 1/27/2023 10:38:57 PM EST

[#46]

Hurricane Hazel, October 15^th, 1954.

It completely wiped out Long Beach (Oak Island), NC. We lived about 50 miles inland and it passed over our town. It stripped most of the shingles from our house, knocked down the chimney, and damaged several large pine trees to the point that they had to be removed. Several days after the storm, the plaster ceiling in my bedroom fell.

My Dad and two uncles had gone to Long Beach the day before for some fishing. Shortly after nightfall, a deputy stopped by, knocked on the door, and advised them to leave -- which they did.
The house they were staying in was pushed about three hundred feet back toward the Inland Waterway. It remained upright but looked as if some giant had grabbed it by the ends and twisted it.

Posted: 1/27/2023 10:41:55 PM EST

[#47]

1994. Tropical storm Alberto stalled out over central GA and dumped a shit load of rain. My 2 year old house ended up with 7’ 10” of water in it. Fun times.

Posted: 1/27/2023 10:42:01 PM EST

[#48]

78 oklahoma tornado, 90 earthquake Philippines, 91 Volcano Philippines, multiple hurricanes too many to count between Philippines, Homestead FL and NC.