what is the worst nature disasater you've encountered?

I would have been eight at the time I believe I witnised a tornado... right across the lake! I had nightmares for months from the awful roaring sound it made! my mom took pictures... man that thing must have been a several blocks wide! and was a 5 on the Rictor scale. It killed 23 people. Had that lake not have been there I would NOT be here today I believe. As you may or may not already know... tornado's hate water!.. they power out. The picture below is I believe one from the actual tornado that hit here... but not the one my mom took. It had a name, thats why I could find it.

i , earthquake

I remember that there was a storm in my child hood. We were in our village at that time. our house collaped in the storm We were forced to sit in a small shed through out the night. It took about a month to turn to normal life...!

My umbrella went off from my hands when i was very young...thats it..

The flood of 1985. It destroyed most of my town. My mom was at work and had to climb to the rooftop and be rescued by helicopter.

It was when we were going on a highway and it was dense fog. we lost our way and had to spend night in car for two days

earthquake for me. greetings. : )

tsumani

I flew from Banaglore to Mumbai (Bombay) on July 26, 2005. Mine was the last flight that landed. Everything was flooded, In a few hours Mumbai and the sorrounding areas had more than 900 mm of rain. An entire week was washed away, no work could be done because everything was flooded, the TV was on and off because of power ouatges, phones, mobiles did not work properly, a lot of people lost their lives.

The worst natural distaer i have witnessed was a tornado about 5 miles away.

Our area gets a lot of ugly weather - reminents of hurricanes, floods and tornados. There have been some really dangerous ones around here, but once there was a large group of tornados that came across from Texas and cut across the whole northwest corner of Louisiana. I knew things were pretty bad because the cats were going crazy. One was trying to dig a hole in the floor. The other was bouncing off all four walls, the floor and the ceiling! Then suddenly we lost power, and it didn't come back on. After a bit, a group of men in our subdivision got flashlights and tools so they could clear the railroad tracks. We have a lot of trains that roar through every day and night and we were all afraid that one might get derailed because of debris on the track. Since I wasn't strong enough to help, all I could do was wait until daylight. When dawn came I grabed my camera and went outside. At first I thought I had just imagined that things had been so bad. Then I turned the corner of my house and saw one of my big trees was on my neighbor's roof! The stump was twisted off four feet from the ground. The tree was only about five feet from my house. That's how close the tornado came to picking up my house. I worked part-time for a small local paper, so I called them and asked if they wanted me to cover the story. It turned out that I was the only one available to do so. I grabbed my notebook, all of my film and my camera and tried first to backtrack the tornado by following the damage. Then I started guessing where it had gone by the angle of its track. Soon I realized there had been more than one (best guess: two dozen). As I followed the path I talked to many people who had experienced them even closer up than I had. Because I knew the area, I could follow the route better than anyone else. Soon the tv station crews were following me to get the best stories. Even so, I got some they never got. I ended up having a full page feature of photos and stories in the paper. I talked to a couple who had been penned in their bed when a large oak tree crashed through their roof and held them down by its branches, people in a cul de sac had trees down between all the houses, facing outside the circle and a mother showed me her son's bed smashed to pieces and with a huge beam filled with large nails sticking in the pillow. But her son was safe because she had let him spend the night with a friend for the first time that night. That was the most amazing thing. NOBODY was hurt! People told me of being wakened from a deep sleep and feeling led to pray for people in the area an hour before the storms hit. One man ran into the dining room to catch his dog and got out of it seconds before the room was smashed by a tree. Another woman had let the children stay in the den to watch tv. That end of the house was fine, but all of the bedrooms were totaled. The worst injuries were one small boy who got a tiny splinter in his finger and the man in the couple who were penned in their bed bumped his head trying to climb out. All I can say is we were blessed. I think a lot of angels were very busy that night.

I think Earthquake is the worst and also T-Sunami which messed-up many countries 2 years back.

Well typhoon also is one of disaster I encounter.I can remember that our home was nearly torn by this fortuitous event. Also the floods that our ricr firelds was like seas as the water rises.

The two worst natural disasters I've been through have been with hurricanes. The 1st one was with Hurricane Andrew in 1992, luckily I live farther north of where the eye hit and suffered small damage to my home unlike what happen to the folks in the Homestead area. The 2nd was with the hurricanes of 2005 with Rita and Wilma doing a one-two combination that took out parts of my roof resulting in water damage to almost all parts to my house and parts of the ceiling to collapse in my parents room.

I have had many experiences with funnel clouds, and I was hit by lightning - DNatureofDTrain

the rains on 26/07/2005...mumbai