What is the worst extreme-weather or seismic event you ever experienced?

Question

Please say a little about it.

Answer 1

I didnt evacuate for a class 4 hurricane. I live in a very small town and both the stores ran out of gas along with all the other stores in the surrounding areas thats the reason for staying. Lets just say when you sit in the house and watch the water pour down the walls and trees snaping and your scared to death that any minute whats left of your home is going to blow away and almost your entire family is in the same room with you, you wonder if you told them all you loved them enough times in your life. And then you wounder if your going up or down when the storm kills you. I know this the next one i dont care if i have to walk i am getting out.

Answer 2

My fiance' and I rode out hurricane Rita last year. When the house shifted we went into the bathroom and waited until things calmed down. We lost the carport but the two huge oak trees in the back yard are still standing. What surprised me the most was the lack of rain, before, during and after the storm. I have lived on the Gulf Coast all my life and there was less rain with Rita than any I had gone through before. Fortunately I have never been afraid of bad weather.
The ice storm in Jan '97 was pretty bad because we had no electricity for almost a week. With no prior warning we were all in a state of shock. I think every tree in town lost most of their larger limbs. It took weeks to clean up the mess.

Answer 3

The Northridge quake only knocked a few shelves off my walls, but the worst recent thing was flash flooding during a rainstorm a few years back, my friend's house a block away had water at least a foot deep in it within half an hour. Pretty crazy since "it never rains in Southern California"

Answer 4

there are certain climate kinds like as an get mutually fairly some the storms contained in the northeast bypass inland, bringing rain to the huge cities contained in the I-ninety 5 hall from DC-huge apple city-Boston. although certain climate substitute kinds can make the storms bypass off shore and produce snow. the North Atlantic Oscillation is negative there's a block and chilly air receives further south and the arctic warms above person-friendly no longer hotter than right here. this also takes the storms off shore. i love snow so i'm hoping we get extra blizzards!

Answer 5

I was about 10 years old visiting my Grandfather in Ontario. It had been hot most of the time we were there and we had a small storm with a small tornado rip through his neighborhood. Alot of trees lifted out of the ground and clothes off of lines never to be found. The worst part about it for us was that my Grandfather kept and bred cockateals outside in a large cage. He had about 40 pairs with new babies and they all died. It was sad for us.
This was nothing compared to the disasters around the world, but that's the worst I have ever experienced myself.

Answer 6

The night of 13 tornados in Amarillo and on the highway between Amarillo and Canyon - Mother's Day, 1983.

Basically, I was visiting a friend when the sirens sounded. My friend and her family disappeared into their "predetermined" hiding places, leaving me and another friend frantically running through the neighborhood looking for an open fence to get to someone's -- anyone's-- cellar... this was at night, in the rain and hail, with sirens blaring in the background. We did, ultimately find a cellar.

Answer 7

Chicago's Ice Storm of 68 or something

Cold rain turn to heavy ice

not only the roads were bad

Power grids going down - lots and lots of Power lines falling down

and the prior weeks of snow didn't help

Total mess

Northwestern subs/Chicago were having to get help from Wisconsin and Minnesota Power Crews

Answer 8

A tornado about 8 years ago now. We had just sold our home and were in the process of moving when it hit. Needless to say it was terrifying but we only lost a few trees. Hope never to go through that again, whew.

Answer 9

Hurricane Katrina. I was in a safe building but it was still scary. A Tornado in 1984, I saw the funnel perfectly from the kitchen window.

Answer 10

an earthquake, 7.something or other ( forget, but it was 7 point something) and was in southern cal. at the time and think it was 1999. i was stationed at fort irwin at the time and the news said it was lucky it happened in an unpopulated area. well, it scared the living daylights out of me...i would rather experience a tornado or a blizzard but it just is absolutely terrifying feeling earth move and seeing house move when its not supposed to. (i grew up in wisconsin, explaining tornado & blizzard ref.)