The experience of being caught in a major flood, hurricane or tsunami must be a unique one?

Question

Wonder if the weather men can do more?
Or special construction of houses, provision of dinghies, life-jackets, emergency gadgets, equipment or food supplies?

*For Scarlet:: Thumbs up 4 u. Yeah, more funds from govt or non-govt orgs should be directed to communities which are disaster-prone. Surely there is enough money in the country to go around and make living less worrisome and precarious.

Answer 1

Actually, the thing that makes natural disasters major is that the experience of being caught in them is very far from unique.

Tsunamis are tough becuase there's very little warning time. Floods and hurricanes are somewhat more predictable, but prediction will only get you so far - you need preparation as well. Of course, preparation costs money, and it's often all too tempting to skimp on something that may never be used, in favour of something else that has more immediate benefits to the community (particularly the section of it that votes).

Don't forget the other natural disasters: fires, earthquakes, landslides, avalanches, tornadoes, hurricanes, lightning storms, giant meteor impacts, supernovae...

Answer 2

I stay in tornado alley, too, like CJ. we've had many severe tornados right here, fortuitously I even have not individually been in a single, and need to in no way be. The worst disaster I even have been in grow to be the ice typhoon 2 weeks in the past, while our area lost ability, some people for extra desirable than a week, and incredibly some wood and harm to properties. We lost a pair of wood and had roof harm to our porch, and there are nonetheless extensive piles of brush everywhere that must be wiped sparkling up and burned, yet we've been fortunate, many people lost a lot extra desirable than that. i'm shocked CJ did no longer point out the ice typhoon that SW Missouri and Springfield suffered las January, we've been there some days later and 40 miles out of Spgfld and all the way into and over the city grow to be such devastating harm to the wood that it appeared like a conflict zone. i do no longer think of there grow to be a backyard interior the entire city that did no longer have wood down or severe tree harm, plus harm to the properties. In the two circumstances, the entire area grow to be declared a disaster area.

Answer 3

What I experienced 16 years ago, a flashflood in Ormoc City that claimed 6,000 lives, will be forever in my mind. I was almost one of the 6,000 if not for a makeshift clothesline that caught my neck, making my sister easier to grab hold of my hair and pull me out before the big logs came in with the flood. I can just say that respect to nature is the best way to prevent even more disasters.

Answer 4

My sister lives in Sheffield and the only think that would have stopped her getting flooded is a 10ft high brick wall all the way around her house.

The water came in within 30 minutes of her hearing it was coming, it was eventually 6ft deep and nothing was going to stop it.
You can't stop 6ft of water with half an hours notice, and even a huge wall would have struggled to hold back so much power.
Maybe we should all be buying houseboats, i didn't hear of any barges getting flooded out.

Answer 5

The experience is more thing unique.

Answer 6

seriously i wouldn't want to be involved with either but its not unique

Answer 7

when i get caught in one then i will answer ur qustion