Have you ever experienced a natural disaster ?

Question

What was your experience?

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Answer 1

We always do experience natural calamaties in the Philippines. Our town is along the typhoon belt area. It is a natural thing for us to experience typhoon every year. Last year we had experienced a super typhoon. It was a huge disaster. Many lost their lives and properties. In our case, one of my adjacent house was half-roofless, gazebo, laundry area, piggery were down. Our mango plantation was leafless and some were uprooted. It was really a shocking moment for us Bicolanos. I could not forget that year. We have no electricity for almost a month. Just imagine that..... no internet.. no connection around the world!!!

My goodness.... Hope that will no longer happen to us.

Thanks for asking. Have a great weekend and a wonderful Sunday too.

Answer 2

I was in the 89 Loma Prieta earthquake http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loma_Prieta_Earthquake
http://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds-29/web_pages/oakland.html
http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/shake/ca/STORE/XLoma_Prieta/ciim_display.html

I have been in several typhoons while living in Okinawa, the strongest ones being Typhoon Sinlaku http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=4755
and Typhoon Nari, which hit a few days before 9/11/2001 and then came back and got us again on 9/13/2001 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/shownh.php3?img_id=14522

The earthquake was very frightening, especially driving home from work that night with all the streetlights off and just knowing that it had been a bad one.

The typhoons were a blast LOL.. but I lived in a strong, concrete building that had no chance of getting blown over. I was always a bit worried about things crashing through the windows, but I just taped them up and hoped for the best :p

Answer 3

I live in San Diego, so I recently just experienced all the wild fires that were going on. Thankfully they didn't make it to my neighborhood, but they destroyed the houses of many others in the county. Furthermore, my office/store was closed for three days because my manager lives in Rancho Bernardo, which was one of the hardest hit areas. Her house, thankfully, is still standing, but there are many others that have been burned to the ground. The fires were such a surreal experience and I pray that nothing like that ever happens to San Diego again.

Answer 4

Yes, I've been through blizzards, a tornado and various hurricanes over the years.

I remember the blizzard of '78 - we were without power for a week. We cooked on the woodstove, slept in sleeping bags in front of it as the house had no heat other than what the one woodstove could provide and melted snow to get water. I was 9 years old when that occurred.

The worst, though, was being in an underground shelter while a tornado was going overhead when I lived in Indiana. I've never before heard a noise such as that and I never want to hear it again.

Answer 5

Yes. Major bushfires a couple of times, and smaller ones more often. Big floods as a young reporter, when I watched helplessly as a fellow fell from a helicopter and drowned, and avoided snakes swarming in mud-filled streets and buildings as waters receded. Another big flood in Central Australia where we had to "sit down" for four days short of supplies, waiting for a flooded river, normally dry, to reduce sufficiently to cross in raging water carrying floating trees. Great gales in small yachts at sea (wonderful to see), and a 100mph line squall. And, of course, humanity - that's the most frightening of all.

Answer 6

I've done humanitarian aid in more than a couple places hit by natural disasters. I've seen allot of what this world is capable of.

While I was overseas once, I was "lucky" enough to live through a sands storm and earth quake at the same time. It was pretty terrifying. Can't see a bloody thing and the ground is tearing itself apart from underneath your very feet.

And lastly, I was in Georgia a few years ago when the hurricane season before Katrina hit the American Eastern coast.

Nature is a beatiful thing to appreciate but if we forget that, she teaches us a very hard lesson.

Answer 7

Not directly, no; though I once spent a night in an old farmhouse while the tail end of a hurricane shook it like a dog with a chew toy. Then there was that hot August night a few years ago when the power went out over much of eastern Canada and the east-central United States; that was frightening but not a natural disaster.

In January 1998, my sister and her housemate and their four cats fled their home on Wolfe Island in Kingston, Ontario, when a massive ice storm knocked out power over a huge swath of eastern Ontario, southern Quebec, and parts of the maritime provinces. They stayed away for a few days; others were without power for much longer.

Answer 8

I spilled my orange juice once. I was devastated until I poured another glass.

Seriously though... when I served in the US navy, we had some pretty rough seas. The ship -an aircraft carrier... those things arent supposed to move- was swaying back and forth. We actually had flooding five decks above the water line... gigantic waves.

Answer 9

Yes, I lived in South Florida for 25 years. The worst one was Hurricane Andrew in 1992. I was a cop at the time and had to work the night shift at the same time that the storm came ashore. My car was lifted off the ground twice while I was patrolling neighborhoods and helping people get to shelters.

Answer 10

Yea I did...

Family was on vacation....

Had just purchased a "new pair" of short pants....

Well ?

Out and about - Just shopping...

When my wife had notice....

Something really strange...

It seems that those "new shorts" had been sewn with "CHEEP THREAD"...

Would this be considered a "natural disaster"...

At the time it was for me.

Ha Ha Ha....

Note. No I haven't and thankful for this. But for those who have lived through these - May God help them, bless them with the strength to over come these obstacles of trying times...