Have you ever been in Natural Disaster ???

Question

If so, what kind ? Flood, wild fire, earthqauke, tornado, hurricane, etc ? When ? what was it like ? did you get injured ? what did you lose ?

Answer 1

yes
6.5 earthquake in Bulgaria - scary thing, very scary

few bushfires in Australia, very close to our beach house

Answer 2

I was in the tornado on Black Friday, July 31st, 1987... the backyard furniture was flying around, but I was very grateful to have not been affected more than that.

"The tornado remained on the ground for an hour, cutting a path of destruction 40 kilometres (25 miles) long and up to a kilometre wide in places, and peaking at F5 on the Fujita scale. The tornado killed 27 people, injured more than 300 people, destroyed more than 300 homes, and caused more than $330 million in property damage at four major disaster sites."

Answer 3

Not nothing compared to what some people have been through. But in October (2006) we had a really big snow storm in Buffalo that knocked down a bunch of trees and power lines. It came out of nowhere too, because the weather had been fairly nice the day before. We didn't have any electricity for about a week and a half. Luckily, that was all that happened to me. Our house didn't get hit (we were fortunate too, because we had a big oak tree in our back yard that fell over, but it missed the house by like a foot) But a lot of people's roofs caved in, and trees fell on their houses. It took a good month for all the electricity to be restored in the city, and a few months for all the trees and debris to be cleaned up.

Answer 4

Loma Prieta Earthquake
6.9 Richter Magnitude
October 17, 1989

Answer 5

I lived in Oklahoma for many years & tornados are bound to get ya sometime we lived in OKC when the F-5 hit in 99 and our house burnt a few years ago (01) we lost alot but fortunately no one was injured. As far as what either was like, it's undescribable and I hope neither ever happens again.

Answer 6

It wasn't exactly a disaster but a tornado went over our house once, and it made the house rattle. It sounded like a jet airplane sounds when the pilot lets down the landing flaps.

Answer 7

Only one small one, Hurricane Gloria in September of 1985 when I was 7 years old. I was scared out of my mind and I hid on the staircase. No injuries and all we lost were large parts of a few trees in the back yard.

Answer 8

I was in the big ice storm in Eastern Ontario in 1997 and Hurricane Juan in 2004

Answer 9

When I was a child, my parents lost our home to a fire. Nobody was injured. We lost everything.

Two years ago, a series of tornadoes came through the area where I live and 28 people were killed. Five of them were killed at my husband's job.

He was at work and I was at home with the kids when it happened. Our house had just minor damage- shingles blown off, etc.

An entire wing of the building where he works was destroyed. Phone lines were knocked down. Roads were blocked off. I kept hearing on the radio the body count growing at his work place and I was terrified. He kept hearing about people near where we live being killed so he was terrified, also. When he managed to get through on his cell phone to my brother in laws cell phone I just collapsed and cried.

Answer 10

Yes, a storm driven flood. I fished off of my porch roof and tied my canoe to the gutter. It lasted six days. Afterward my home was found uninhabitable and demolished. We moved inland and up hill.

Answer 11

2 hurricanes

2nd) In Trinidad all it did flood the place a little nothing major
1st) In Aruba I got cut by flying glass and got hit by a plastic chair and lost some blood.