Have you ever been in a natural disaster?

Many tornado's while in Arkansas, but the worst was the 2008 super Tuesday one. Past 800 feet from the house. Thought it was going to lift it off the foundation and send us to Kansas. That was followed up in 2009 by the second worst ice storm in the state's history.
Been through multiple hurricanes in Florida. Worst of those was probably Katrina, but, in 2004 we were hit with 4 back to back ones... Charley, Frances, Ivan, and Jeanne.
Also went through multiple earthquakes (5.6-5.9 magnitude) while living in So. Ca. from 1986 to 1994.
Going way back, went through the blizzard of 1978 in New England.
 
Only natural disaster was we were camped near where a tornado touched down briefly; we made it through ok, no one hurt.

Right now weā€™re in an UNnatural, manmade disaster, the Park fire which has burned 239,000 acres including one of our friendā€™s homes, and was started by one a$$hole who pushed his motherā€™s burning car into a ravine and ran off. They did catch him.
 
Couldnā€™t call this much of a natural disaster, but many years ago I was in a San Francisco seventh floor copy room when I saw a Xerox machine sliding across the floor toward me. On leaving the building I noticed part of the exterior wall of a brick multistory across the street had fallen into the street exposing a completely intact office, desk and all. There was more of the same shaker around where I lived. No power for a few days.
 
chic said:
I've survived multiple hurricanes which is commonplace for where I live. We all do.

My grandmother survived an earthquake when she was a child. Her family had to sleep outdoors for days because nowhere else was safe.
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we had a small earthquake in 1964 in Scotland when I was a child.. It knocked us out of bed .. but about 6 miles from us my aunt who lived in the ground floor apartment in a tenement block was killed when the whole building collapsed like a pack of cards.

It had clearly been weakened by the war, and the earthquake was the last straw...
 
The blizzard of 78, hurricanes, avoided a tornado by 2 streets, hail that broke through windows, the big ice storm that snapped off trees and lost power for 5 days.

As a child there was a huge flood through the river valley in our city. We lived on one of many of the hills, so we were safe, but many were not.
 
Bretrick said:
Be it Tornado/Cyclone, Earthquake, Severe Flooding, Bushfire, Tsunami, Extreme Heatwave, Prolonged Drought, Volcanic Eruptions, Avalanche?
Bretrick has experienced no natural disasters
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Daily. Houston, Texas IS an ongoing natural disaster. At least that's the way it seems this year past. Drought, hail, tornado, 'drencho', flooding and now hurricane followed by persistent substantial rainfall. All right, already. New normal, I guess.
 
A few memorable blizzards brought everything to a standstill, collapsed a few barns and other large structures.

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I remember in 1966 the people in our village opened their homes to travelers stranded on the interstate.

We had a young army fella and an unusual woman that described herself as an author spend a couple of nights with us until things got moving again.
 
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