Like tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, etc.
2007-07-12 16:40:47 · 29 answers · asked by I am T-bag's b itch 6 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Yeah...my mom is from a little town in southern Illinois and when I was about 8 yrs old we were visiting family & friends down there when a tornado hit. Well, our friends lived in a trailer (yeah...tornados...trailers? NOT a good mix!) so we had to go lie down in the middle of a corn field until the tornado passed. At the time, I thought it was cooler than anything...I think I would be scared to go through something like that now, though.
2007-07-12 16:47:11 · answer #1 · answered by Red 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I live in Oregon there are not to many natural disasters here but yes I have been in three. First as a child we had a horrific wind storm. I sat in the front window watching trees topple like tooth picks. My dad was on the back porch as a tree fell right as he turned to come into the house. Will never forget it. Next a couple of years later there was a flood we lived at the top of the hill. My cousins moved in with us because they were flooded out. Nothing in there house was salvagable. Next as an adult I was jolted out of bed by an earth quake. Lots of damage a few miles away but none for us. Last was the great flood we were again unharmed but isolated. We could not get out we helped move books up high in the library and relocate an elder village. Lucky I dont know I guess that was 4 If you count Mt St Helens erupting and leaving ash an inch thick every where that would be 5
2007-07-12 23:52:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
In the 60s there was a mammoth earthquake in Agadir, Morocco. We lived in the capital, Rabat, about 250 miles away and felt the shock. I was attached to security at the Embassy. We had to go Agadir to look for a courier that was staying there in a local hotel. We went by helicopter. When we were within about 10 miles of the city we could smell the stench. When we got on the ground I threw up because of the smell. It took us a while to find the hotel and the courier. I was sick all the time. The courier was dead trapped under all the rubble of the hotel. You couldn't even recognize him as a human. I was never so glad to get out of that place. The smell stayed with me for years. I still have nightmares about it.
Agadir was a beautiful resort city on the Atlantic seaboard The entire city was destroyed. The death toll was about 25,000 people. Despite being on the sea coast it was still hot ------you figure out the rest.
It was the worse thing that I have ever done in my life. Just writing about it now makes me queasy.
Agadir has been rebuilt and is now once again a booming resort city, but I'll never go there again.
2007-07-12 23:53:21 · answer #3 · answered by SgtMoto 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I was once in a small hurricane only a cat 2, but where I live we never have hurricanes so the city panicked and didnt know what to do, and was left with out power for 2 weeks some places a month, then there was the time we got 160cm of snow that was bad....
2007-07-12 23:44:13 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No and I hope I don't, but who knows what nature will do.
I was told that since I live by a river, that there is a better chance of not having a tornado.
I don't live by a sea, so theres not a good chance of having a hurricane, and my house is in a place where not many earthquakes happen.
There was a flood but I wasn't alive.
2007-07-12 23:50:36 · answer #5 · answered by helloangel♥ 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, Tropical Storm Alison hit Houston real hard there was massive flooding, in 2001 my home town was right in the middle of it, and although my house wasn't flooded, the water came about 2 ft from entering my house.
Oh and Hurricane Amelia when I was an infant.
2007-07-12 23:46:43 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes a tornado right behind my house in Kennett, MO after the Caruthersville, MO destructive tornadoes
2007-07-12 23:46:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
When I was five, April 3, 1974, an F4 tornado, during the Super Outbreak.
Here's a pic of the tornado as it approached my area. http://april31974.com/images/torrnadoonmainstreet.jpg
2007-07-12 23:47:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Hurricanes Francis and Jeanne
2007-07-12 23:44:57 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes the poverty in the Philippines is a disaster for me.
I spent about $2.8M into the Philippines in 2006 and a little bit more by the end of this year, by way of programs and projects in education and healthcare. i indeed do work for those noble causes. it does make me noble-- it sure feels good. you should try it sometime.
That's the truth, the simple truth. Why is that so very very hard for some to fathom? It just boggles the rational mind
2007-07-12 23:43:39 · answer #10 · answered by Detective Well 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋