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Yea, Iraq.
I did cleanup work in Thailand after the Boxing Day Tsunami, and then after Katrina less than a year later. Mother nature don't play. |
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Asphalt driveway cracked straight across the day of the huge Indonesian quake/tsunami. Maybe coincidence but thats when it happened
Luckily this section of SW Pa has been very mundane. There was a hollow near ligonier PA that always got a tornado through it every year. And Pittsburgh used to get a tornado or microburst during their arts festival in June. But the last few years has been mild in Pittsburgh, and I dont recall the last tornado in Lignonier. The house did get shook for about 15 seconds several years ago when there was a quake in Virginia Sit too high to have any natural flooding problems. |
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Endured a tornado hunkered down in a tent.
The deafening roar of the wind and sounds of trees crashing down all around me still haunt me. The tent amazingly held, everything else was gone. |
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Had 2 tornadoes pass within ~200 yards during the April 27, 2011 outbreak when I lived in Alabama. Luckily we only had minor roof damage and trees down.
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Never experienced anything remotely close to any of this in 33 years.
Now I live in “tornado alley” so will see what my first spring holds |
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Hurricane Kate - 1985 The eye came through 10 miles west of us. 80 mph - gusts to 105
I worked Sheriff's Posse that night. ALL roads in and out of town were totally blocked by big pines down. The next day when I saw some of the roads I was patrolling the night before, I almost shit. Huge pines could have taken me out at any moment. Had a UPS driver helping a wrecker driver get killed by a falling tree. Many folks were blocked in their cars on the road by falling pines. We were without electricity for 5 days. Major power line damage all over the area. |
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Blizzard of 78 was interesting. We lived in a crappy old trailer that had super thin walls. Seriously, maybe 2” thick. The oil furnace wouldn’t keep up. It would run continuously and trailer was getting colder. Huge drifts of snow made travel impossible. My grandparents sent food to us on a snowmobile.
June 29, 2012 was a derecho that left us without power for a week. It was also extremely hot when the power was out. June 2012 derecho Also had a tornado on the south end of my property. It only damaged some of the corn that was in the path. It crossed the road and lifted off the ground. We had a sheet of plywood land 20 feet from our house and other Debris from the tornado landed at least 11 miles away. I was at work at the time, but my wife saw it. |
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Red River has flooded on us a few times in the last 30 years.
Katrina… |
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Hurricane Ian this past Sept. still displaced and living in a camper with wife, two kids, and a couple dogs.
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Hurricane Floyd was epic around my parts. Flooding like nobody has experienced here. Never forget fish swimming on the road and in peoples yards that were nowhere close to rivers or creeks lol.
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Hurricane Frederick, Dauphin Island/Mobile Alabama 1979.
No water for 5 days, no electricity for 2 1/2 weeks. |
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Hurricane Katrina. I wasn’t affected damages-wise, but knew many who were. And knew the chaplain of Charity hospital who was at the hospital and stuck there after. He wrote a book aboit it.
I remember the day bf, out grocery shopping to prepare. The sky was still. Just a weird feeling. Then Sunday morning, Mayor Nagin in NOLA says to evacuate. The next one is the great flood of Baton Rouge in 2016, I think. 3 family members lost homes. The flood was in Livingston Parish, but Baton Rouge is what folks will know. |
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Hurricane Bob was fun, I rode that out in a hotel somewhere near Woods Hole. We spent the time drinking and playing in the pool until the wind became strong enough to make the plexiglass windows bow in and out. By the time it was done all the windows on the second floor had been broken. We watched the eyewall pass, walked outside and marveled at the eye, then got back inside when the eyewall hit us again.
The Berkeley Hills fire was pretty sobering. I lived about 10 miles east. It had been hot and dry, not unusual for central CA. About 10 am the wind came up suddenly. A little later I heard a line of fire trucks go past, it sounded like every truck in the east bay was called up. I turned on the news around 4 and saw the devastation. Ash, including charred papers, was falling. The highway and tunnel were closed for a few days. I drove through there after it opened, and some houses were still burning. It was eerie seeing active fires, with no response. Fire had bigger problems and just left them to burn out. On the way home the ridge above the tunnel had an entirely new shape, all structures and vegetation had been wiped off. |
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As far as destruction, was laying wood to a chick once and broke the bed. Had to fix it after i finished.
As for disasters that caused mental anguish, i once did the courtesy flush when i took a huge dump and it plugged the toilet. The water level came up high enough that it dipped my nuts. That was a pretty tough one to get over |
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Quoted: We’ve had some hydro ex trucks chasing Centerpoint around putting up new poles. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: I've seen a lot of the aftermath being a lineman 37 years. Hurricanes, tornadoes, wild fires, flooding. We have never had to deal with it personally. I just spent the last 3 days in Deer Park and Pasadena while our crews picked up wire and replaced poles due to the tornadoes. It was bad but not bad as some I've seen. But 8f you lose your house its about as bad as it gets, and some did. Thankfully my family and I have never had to deal with that type of loss. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/257708/Screenshot_20230127_214744_Gallery_jpg-2688012.JPGhttps://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/257708/Screenshot_20230127_214719_Gallery_jpg-2688016.JPG Couple pics from Deer Park, TX We’ve had some hydro ex trucks chasing Centerpoint around putting up new poles. Yeah I think most of the holes were being vac'd due to all the utilities in the ground. |
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Quoted: Utility line clearance trimmers are there first, before the linemen. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: And dangerous. During an ice storm when power goes out at 3a.m. from downed lines and blown transformers, these are the guys that brave the dark, cold and killer voltage to get it back on. Utility line clearance trimmers are there first, before the linemen. Yeah and they sit and wait until the line crew shows up to install grounds and deemed safe. |
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The Great Recession was brutal, I consider it a natural disaster caused by morons in government.
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I had a raven fly off with all my keys while I was cutting firewood in Alaska. That kinda sucked
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I guess it was Hurricane Hermine for me (so far). It was only a cat 1 when it hit land 19 miles from me, which says a lot about how lucky I've been, living within 25 miles of the gulf coast for the last 45 years.
Anyway it was a direct hit, in the middle of the night, and knocked over a number of oaks in my yard and across my driveway, and about 25 pines across the neighborhood entrance road. Power was out for about a week, too. Tropical Storm Debby (2012) dropped over 30" of rain in 2 days, but I'm on a spot that's a little higher than the surrounding, and of course its mostly sand here. Was a good test, so I don't worry about flooding anymore. |
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Quoted: House (along with a large portion of my city) flooded in the August 2016 "non tropical" biblical rainfall that hit South Louisiana. Something like 25" of rain in a day. It sucked so hard I vowed never to go through it again. It was a major factor in our decision to move here. Where I'm at should never flood. View Quote That flood was something like no other. With a hurricane you expect it can happen. This was a freak accident. I still remember being in BR 2 days before moving my daughter into her apt for LSU. The sky was gray and it was already starting to rain. I go on back home to nola and am getting phone calls on Saturday of family flooding and what’s happening and nobody could get to them. Then phones went dead. It was Livingston Parish, but people say Baton Rouge. |
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Immediate: Snovid 2021
Longest lasting effect: Katrina... refugees |
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Hurricane/tropical storm Irene.
Absolutely devistating for the state of Vermont. We build our road alongside rivers. The rivers destroyed roads EVERYWHERE. The flash flooding was insane. There were entire towns that were cut off for a week or more. My wife at the time was stuck at work for over a week. There were about 3-4 roads destroyed between us. Thankfully she worked at a hotel. |
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In chronological order:
Ice storm of '94 Blizzard of '96, 38 inches of snow overnight. Hurricane Floyd, I was stuck in New Brunswick with my vehicle on the other side of the Raritan River in Piscataway. iirc, it was something like 14 feet higher than the next highest flood level recorded. The surprise flood of 2004, 13 inches of rain in about 15 hours just in my area. It blew out dozens of dams across the county. Hurricane Sandy and last but certainly not least, The Biden Presidency |
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1993 when St. Louis MO area had a once every 500 years flood.
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Quoted: In chronological order: Ice storm of '94 Blizzard of '96, 38 inches of snow overnight. Hurricane Floyd, I was stuck in New Brunswick with my vehicle on the other side of the Raritan River in Piscataway. iirc, it was something like 14 feet higher than the next highest flood level recorded. The surprise flood of 2004, 13 inches of rain in about 15 hours just in my area. It blew out dozens of dams across the county. Hurricane Sandy and last but certainly not least, The Biden Presidency View Quote Hmm i hadnt really thought about ice and winter weather being a disaster. 06 we got 6 inches of freezing rain with 70mph winds followed by 4 ft of snow. Not a powerline was left. Most farmhouses were drifted over to the point folks could not get out and a lot of the community went around with front end loaders digging people out of their houses. I kept chains on my pickup for 2 months that winter |
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Quoted: Hmm i hadnt really thought about ice and winter weather being a disaster. 06 we got 6 inches of freezing rain with 70mph winds followed by 4 ft of snow. Not a powerline was left. Most farmhouses were drifted over to the point folks could not get out and a lot of the community went around with front end loaders digging people out of their houses. I kept chains on my pickup for 2 months that winter View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: In chronological order: Ice storm of '94 Blizzard of '96, 38 inches of snow overnight. Hurricane Floyd, I was stuck in New Brunswick with my vehicle on the other side of the Raritan River in Piscataway. iirc, it was something like 14 feet higher than the next highest flood level recorded. The surprise flood of 2004, 13 inches of rain in about 15 hours just in my area. It blew out dozens of dams across the county. Hurricane Sandy and last but certainly not least, The Biden Presidency Hmm i hadnt really thought about ice and winter weather being a disaster. 06 we got 6 inches of freezing rain with 70mph winds followed by 4 ft of snow. Not a powerline was left. Most farmhouses were drifted over to the point folks could not get out and a lot of the community went around with front end loaders digging people out of their houses. I kept chains on my pickup for 2 months that winter For all its faults, NJ is pretty low on the list of places with bad natural disasters. 3x the annual snowfall in one night is serious business for us. |
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Multiple Gulf Coast hurricanes over my lifetime when we lived on or near the Texas coast. Celia when I was a little kid was probably the worst.
A tornado hit our house when we lived in Kansas. Grateful that it was only an F1. |
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Charlie, Jean, Wilma, Irma...all assholes.
I'd still rather be in hurricane country than tornado, earthquake, mudslide, blizzard, area though. We get plenty of notice. Although hurricanes are certainly life changing. I'm sure we have some southwest Florida members that got turned upside-down. |
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Been way too close to a few tornadoes, like...car rocking around and losing sight of the semi-truck in from me close.
We were missed by the huge flood in Nashville by less than a mile. That's all I've got...and all I want |
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Four hurricanes in the Houston, TX area. Alicia, Rita, Ike and Harvey. Went through the eye on Alisha and Ike. No power for a week after Alicia. No power for two weeks after Ike; my high rise office building was closed for two months after Ike. Harvey flooded out our office equipment storage; flooded my son's in laws home that we spent a week cleaning out and tearing out sheetrock, etc.
At the end of the day from these storms our personal losses just amounted to some trees going down, fences getting blown down and inconveniences to eating, sleeping, working and shopping. Just reinforces the idea to be prepared and go with the flow. We also installed a 38 KW whole house generator after Ike. Also went through numerous flooding events in the Houston area over the years; always chuckle about launching our canoe in neighbors front yard during 1994 flood of the San Jacinto River/Lake Houston near Houston, TX. Neighbor was a local newscaster. We ended up on the 10 pm news. Fun paddling through the golf course and down the greenbelts. Spent many hours prepping neighbors homes as the water was rising. Also had to deal with the same flood tearing out some corporate pipelines that I spent a lot of time working with customers and authorities on repairs, etc. Went through the cold snap of Feb 2021 in the Texas Hill Country. Again we were more or less prepared. Had a wood stove for heat when power was cut. Only issue was diesel vehicles would not start in the cold (fuel gelled) for a few days and a minor concussion from a slip on the ice. Lost some livestock (new born goats). Finally got our solar bank and battery backup installed after the ice storm (I guess there is a pattern here; do these things after the event, lol, learn what works and what doesn't). Also have fuel additive now for cold weather diesel operation. We also have carried lots of spare parts at the ranch house for plumbing repairs, etc. for years. |
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In 2007, my first wife died after a lengthy illness. I was technically bankrupt due to all the medical debt, yet I clawed my way out of it.
Here it is 2023, and I'm just over the 90 day mark in the separation from my second wife. Other than financially, this marriage ending isn't anywhere near as bad as the death of my first wife. |
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