Disasters

[jeffrey 228]

Ok Guys, in your guys life time, have you ever been in a big Disaster, like Earthquakes, Tornados, floods, or even Hurrcains/Tropical storms?

AS for my part of the topic, the only disaster I have been in was an Earthquake back on my birthday in February 2 years ago, and it was a 6.8 when on a finial check on the stats and there has been no damage in my room, except for the rest of the house was messy and some what unstable to be going through the house and all, also I was at school at the time that this earthquake occored and that I had my mom pick me up at that time.

BTW, this is also my 2000 post here on ToonZone too. :D :D

[Outlander00]

Couple hurricanes that hit up in the Northeast...

That and 1996 when it snowed for 4 days straight and we ended up with 4' of snow, But I dont think I can count that :p

[Andy Mancini]

For the most part, Western Pennsylvania seems to be disaster proof ever since they put in the dams fifty years ago. Granted, there still is the freak flood or tornado, and when the fault line in State College acts up, we can feel it, but besides that, there's nothing.

[CoolBlue]

I can remember Hurricane Hugo, our house was surrounded by those stupid pine trees and like all of them fell down around the house and never hit the house. My Mom and Dad took me outside when the eye passed over the house. :cool: Other than that nothing except that big ice storm in Dec. when we lost power for four days.

[Singin' Stray Cat]

I slept through an earthquake when I was a baby, or so mom says. Does that count?

As for other natural disasters, can't say I've experienced really severe ones. Nasty weather seems to either go north or south of here, or strengthen to the east.

[Mitsuko]

Do blizzards count? We've had a few of those, some so bad we had to leave our house for a shelter. Also some ice storms too. We've also a had a small hurricane, or micro-burst as they have classified it, come one labor day weekend a few years ago.

I also remember a small earthquake we had, which are fairly rare for New York. I was actually just waking up when my bed started shaking and then the whole house. It only lasted a few seconds, but it sure was interesting!

Overall, I haven't been a part of a real terrible disaster. I guess I can consider myself lucky for that.

~*Mitsuko*~

[Galaxia]

I got caught in a really bad thunderstorm with rain, thunder, lightning, and gale-force winds like a tornado would have (I was actually outside when it happened too). I was at a festival that my old school had every year, then the heavens just opened up and it started to rain really hard. The wind almost picked me up off the ground! :eek:

[Digu Volz]

Nothing at all.

[turbomog007]

I went through the January 17, 1994 Northridge, CA Earthquake. It was a 6.7 or so. The good news was my house was not damaged at all and the funny news is that I slept through it :yawn:

YAy 350th post :D

[TimTwoFace]

Living in the Pacific Northwest (well, more correctly for Canada, the Pacific Southwest), I'm victim to thousands of little earthquakes each year. Jeffrey, I TOTALLY remember the one from 2 years ago (Feb 28, I believe, right?) - it's the only one I ever felt AND knew it while it was happening.

Funny thing was, I was upstairs on my bed drawing Batman pics at the time (what else), and as soon as the house shook, my sister yelled up the stairs and thought I'd done something. Heh. :D

-Tim

[jeffrey 228]

Well Tim, this earthquake was the first ever strong one in my life, and what is so weird, it was on my birthday, and the after that was through, I all of a sudden have gotten bad luck from it untill my next birthday, wich every thing went back to normal, luckly my room, nothing moved during the quake and I was ever so lucky that nothing was damaged.

I just hope another one does not occor this month.

[James]

Yeah sort of. On my first visit to Florida I got caught in the middle of one of the stormy hurricanes.

I'd been there for about a week on the Disney parks and I'd finally got sick of not being able to find a thing to buy other than something Disney. So the day the hurricane hit (not full on, but the warnings were out) I decided to shake my cute fist at the hurricane warnings and head on down to the Virgin Megastore. :)

It was a bumpy and uncomfortable ride (the bus feeling like it was going to upturn on several occasions), and as usual, the hurricane deviated away from Disney World at the last minute, but we got the risidual nastiness. Lucky for me the Hurricane saw Mickey's glare and ran for it..

[sKorpia]

Oct. 1989 - Loma Prieta. I remember falling off the school bus (my foot was raised to step onto the bus when the earthquake hit) and we supposedly had McDonald's or something for dinner but I just remember sitting on the ground while it moved. Felt like minutes.

Other than that, there've been some minor earthquakes (less than 4.0) but nothing serious.

[Catlover]

While my family and I were on a trip up to my grandparents, we were going thru part of atlanta, GA during a really bad flash flood,and our fan belt broke and we were stranded in this realy scary mexican mini-mall.

[gristl24]

Too many tornado's to remember, I remember once there was four tonado's all surrounding my grade school.

[Narfcake]

As with most who's lived in SoCal all their life, earthquakes will happen, and you will feel 'em.

You'd also get used to 'em after a while too ...

-- Kane ... it's not worth waking up for until it's at least a 5.0