Waht is the worst natural disaster that affected you?

Answer 1

we used to go away for the summer to a cottage,we were young kids,no telephone,flimsy walls,parent left for a few days off with our grandma in charge, since no radio or tv they left,5 hrs later we had Hurricane Carol here in the east, the tree next to the cottage fell thru my parents ceiling on to their bed,we lost electricity, the lines were down and bouncing all over the place,the winds were strong and whipping thru our screened in porch and so did the rain. even today it was the scariest thing I've ever gone thru,the, about 2 wks later we had another hurricane, this time it was Edna. What a summer,somewhere in the early 50's.

Answer 2

I've have been very blessed to have never been seriously affected by a natural disaster but I do remember Hurricane Hazel in 1954. We were on our way home in my Aunts' car and we had to cross the beach strip on the west tip of Lake Ontario. The Lake was on the left and the Bay on the right. there were some houses on the strip back then, but I remember being terrified because the water completely covered the road and all the houses were flooded. We made it across but it was nothing compared to some places that were hit worse.

Answer 3

The first was the Christmas Eve Blizzard of 1947 in New York City. The snow from that storm did not melt off the streets of New York until Easter Sunday of 1948. That was one cold winter and formed my desire to leave once old enough to do so.
The second was Hurricane Gracie in 1959. It struck South Carolina and I was awake for three days in a row, even though I was safe within the confines of a Naval Hospital.
The last was the Telega Canyon Fire of 1963, which started on the San Diego-Orange County border of California and wound up going into three other counties and almost jumping the border into Mexico. I was a Navy Corpsman providing medical support to those fighting the fire and I watched six Marines die when a wall of flames hit them. I don't know if it could really be termed "natural" since they later found out it was started by one bozo throwing a lit cigarette out of his car.

Answer 4

Hurricane Celia on August 3, 1970.
My children were very young and we stayed with my mother. We all huddled inside a small area and held out well. Even our little dog who was at that time, a terrier named Marty, was brave as well. We were very hot in that small space. Best place we could find because the hurricane hit with such force, it knocked the televisions off the air unexpectedly. The wind force was last clocked at 170+ mph. Most brick homes were destroyed, but our little frame house only lost some windows and a few other things. Power was only out for two weeks. This hurricane had tornado's with it and not much water damage.

We were all blessed.

Answer 5

Tornadoes bothered me for a long time. I always went to the basement when the weather got really bad. I had a phobia about them.

When we lived in Las Vegas, the floods bothered me some. Well, it bothered the security guards at the strip casinos when I wanted to walk down the alley to my apt. They refused to allow it, and so, I was not allowed to go home. Once, I could not get to work because of the floods.

And here, we've had a few really bad snow storms. I remember once, we had nearly a 6' snowfall, and had to have the National Guard help dig our city out. Could not see over snowbanks to drive into intersections for the rest of that winter.

Of them all, I prefer the snowstorms.

Answer 6

The worst that I can remember is a snowstorm about three years ago. We had over 2 feet of snow in one day. We were without power for 4 days. When the power finally was restored I went outside to clear the snow from the walks again, slipped on the porch steps and broke my wrist.

Answer 7

The Northridge Earthquake. I lived alone in a condo about 5 miles from the epicenter. My little one bedroom condo cost $10,000 to repair. It affected the freeway, water, emotions, looters, etc.

The L.A. Riots affected me with the cerfew imposes after dark and the major looting.

And the 1971 Sylmar earthquake also did plenty of damage, mostly to my parents house, but our apartment was messed up, too.

Answer 8

I hit a mud slide in a road when I was just 16, it was night time and had been raining, I had lived there all my life and never seen the road wash out. Scared me half to death, I was driving my 'other mothers' car and she and her boyfriend were with me. We jack knived from one side of the road to the other until I just put the car toward the bank. We had to crawl out the windows the mud was so deep. Worst injury, a camera on the dash flew off and hit me in the face.
Next would be Hurrican Fran when I was in NC.

Answer 9

Cyclone Tracey. Darwin Australian 1974. We lost everything except the clothes on our backs. We lost not only material things buy our life of life, our society, our town. EVERYTHING

I was nearly decapitated when the phonebox outside our house came crashing thru my bedroom window. If I hadnt flopped back on my bed at that precise moment I would have lost my head.

The force picked me up and hurled me across the room, my mum grabbed me and as the ceiling and roof fell in on us she threw herself on top of me and took the brunt of all the debris.

My brother had the top of his foot 'scooped' out by glass and there was sheer pandamonium going on.

It was like a giant freight train had torn its way thru our house.

More happened before the night was over but Im starting to cry so I will leave it there!!

Answer 10

Back when I was a child we had a hail storm that had some the size of grapefruit. It was very traumatic for me. We lost all the windows in the house and outbuildings. It was the worst I hope I have to endure. And did I mention the huge spiders in the basement. EEEK